I understood John's question very differently. Essentially as "what are the benefits to our municipality of being present in detail on OSM" not using the data or even contributing to it, just as they are not likely to contemplate that for the goog or Here.
My short take on it would be: "because people can find stuff then". The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic benefits of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate, marketing and so on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely there. Simon Am 03.01.2019 um 22:33 schrieb Martijn van Exel: > John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome > site, https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/ specifically > may be interesting to point them to. It’s fairly high level and brief > in its explanations, but if gives organizations a place to start when > they’re not familiar with OSM and consider using it or contributing to it. > > A common issue I have seen with governments wanting to use OSM data is > the license, so they should look into that if they intend to use OSM > data as a replacement / back-fill for any data they may now maintain > themselves. Often it’s a one-way street: Governments can contribute > data to OSM but they can’t use OSM data to enrich their own. YMMV, > this is my experience from talking to governments in the U.S. > > Martijn > >> On Jan 3, 2019, at 2:07 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com >> <mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I got a phone call from someone who works for a municipality who was >> passed my phone number. Basically asking from a municipal government >> point of view was there any advantage to the municipality in having >> their municipality mapped in detail in OpenStreetMap. >> >> Off the top of my head businesses etc can provide map of where they >> are located without payment and list their web sites and phone >> numbers etc. >> >> Is there a web page somewhere that covers this? >> >> It is quite a serious question and I suspect will be used to justify >> some expenditure and effort to help enrich the map. >> >> Thanks John >> >> >> -- >> Sent from Postbox >> <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campaign=reach> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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