I've collected these ideas and put them together in the wiki. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020/municipalities
I may have left one or two out but I think practically everything is covered in the links. Thanks all for the input. Cheerio John On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 05:29, François Lacombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Big use cases for utilities, network operators and urban planning > > English: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/InfosReseaux/diary/47030 > French: > https://www.openstreetmap.fr/cartographier-mondialement-linfrastructure-avec-openstreetmap/ > > Furthermore, OSM is the only one to build and share a worldwide tagging > model. Users can take the data but they can take the tagging model also and > use it to refine third party data. > > All the best > > François > > Le ven. 4 janv. 2019 à 08:40, Oleksiy Muzalyev < > [email protected]> a écrit : > >> A detailed map is an essential tool for firefighters, ambulance, and >> police. And not only of the town itself but also of the countryside >> especially along railways and automobile roads. >> >> The city of Stockholm built an interactive public transportation map on >> the basis of OSM: https://sl.se/en/ . People can see still at home when >> their bus is arriving at the stop. >> >> The city of Odessa created the similar public transportation map but on >> the basis of a commercial map: http://transport.odessa.ua/ . It was >> extremely useful web-application, one could see how the trams' geo-markers >> were moving on the map. The web-application became very popular, and the >> commercial map underneath stopped working normally for some, probably also >> commercial, reason. >> >> I mean a municipal project which is based on an open data map running on >> the municipal server could be more resilient and affordable, especially if >> it becomes popular. >> >> A big separate topic is e-commerce delivery services. A rookie delivery >> driver may search for an address in a city in some cases for hours. This >> excessive driving could be reduced significantly if a driver could see a >> delivery address on the map. It would mean less pollution, accidents, >> pavement wear. >> >> Best regards, >> Oleksiy >> >> On 03.01.19 22:07, John Whelan 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 >> [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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