Dear Sazal, Last year I made a presentation about OSM and its benefits for open data preparedness, crisis response and recovery, you can flind the slideshow here if interested: http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/hotosm
Sincerely, Severin On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Sazal Sthapit <[email protected]>wrote: > >> While I do have some idea to answer this question in bits and pieces, I >> was wondering if we could come up with specific advantages and >> disadvantages of using OpenStreetMap over other maps. > > > What else would you use ;) ? Here's why OSM works so nicely in disaster > response: 1) it's open source = you can actually get it as data which means > you can print it or load it into a GPS device if needed and 2) it's > actually editable, there's no other map that you can directly edit > > Wrote a piece about this on my diary recently: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21623 (also check out > Mikel's post linked from the comments). > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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