Nice one James. Thanks John
On 15 March 2017 at 08:38, James <james2...@gmail.com> wrote: > The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: > http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills > http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names > http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/airport-runways > etc etc > But I doubt they know/care as their portal was built by a consultant and > not them. > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:31 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> >> The page Clifford shared is of course an excellent resource (I started >> the article :) >> But your remarks are not very government-specific, so you probably won't >> find an answer there. >> >> >> >>> 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. >>>> >>> >> There's many projects working on that problem. In Belgium we have a >> famously complicated situation. Especially Brussels is interesting, where >> both French and Dutch are used in the name=* field, split by " - " and with >> language in more or less random order. We're working on mono-lingual tiles >> to help with that: >> http://tile.openstreetmap.be/#map=12/50.84366/4.39113 >> >> >>> >>>> 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? >>>> >>> >> There are many ways to count thing on a map :) >> Just a random example: you might want to make a classification of >> different kinds of neighborhoods (sleeper village, city center, >> agricultural area, holiday area). You can do that completely automated for >> a whole country using OSM data (if it is complete enough) >> >> >> 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. >>>> >>>> >> Well yes, and there is no such thing as a free lunch. There are limits to >> the use of OSM.org tiles. Running your own tile server is often deemed too >> complicated by local governments. For bigger websites, they will often look >> at the likes of Mapbox. >> >> >>> Anyone any examples of how local government is using OSM? >>>> >>> >> What Clifford said :) >> >> >>> 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. >>>> >>>> >> Typically, one branch of government has no clue what another branch is >> doing. >> >> >> -- >> Joost Schouppe >> OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | >> Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn >> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup >> <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ >
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