Do we have a wiki entry on this subject? It has come up a couple of times. Locally this morning talking to the guy who supplies us with Ottawa bus stops under an approved open data licence. It only took five years from start to finish to get it approved on both sides. It has also come up in Lusaka Zambia.
Both locations use more than one language. Both seemed unaware that the map can be in languages other than English. Apparently politically this can be very important. Using R R.org apparently we can count things in the map. Why anyone would want to do this is a mystery to me but apparently statistians make money from it so it must be useful to someone. Possibly local governments? The contact from Ottawa was aware that the city paid for the maps it used on some of their web sites but wasn't sure about using OSM instead, the idea of not having a contract would be difficult to get across. Anyone any examples of how local government is using OSM? I understand part of the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Hydro does use OSM on its web site by the way. Something my contact was unaware of. Thanks John
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