Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

On fredag den 3. februar 2017 14.44.47 CET joost schouppe wrote: > Hi, > > With the Belgian community, we're making some careful progress into getting > government to really integrate OSM/VGI into their data management efforts. > So not talking about background maps here, real data contribution or

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

Hello 2017-02-03 15:44 GMT+02:00 joost schouppe wrote: > With the Belgian community, we're making some careful progress into getting > government to really integrate OSM/VGI into their data management efforts. > So not talking about background maps here, real data contribution or > community engag

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetCam plugin

I've noticed that the arrow for each segment seems to be a bit random and not actually pointing in the direction the camera is pointed in which can make it hard to determine which imagery is which ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists

[OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #341 24/01/2017-03/02/2017

The weekly round-up of OSM news, issue # 341, is now available online in English, giving as always a summary of all things happening in the openstreetmap world: http://www.weeklyosm.eu/en/archives/8683/ Enjoy! weeklyOSM? who?: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WeeklyOSM#Available_Languages w

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government (joost schouppe)

We have something similar in Ottawa, three bits of Government, Gatineau, Ottawa and a federal body called the NCC. Each have their own maps that overlap of their paths for cyclists. OSM is more complete than anything but all three do have Open Data with I understand designated cycle paths. They a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

Hi, The website of the Stockholm Public Transport company website: http://sl.se/en/ is based on the OSM. I do not know if they contribute, but the website is really effective. I used it daily recently while in Stockholm, both on a computer and a smartphone. The Stockholm Public Transport co

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government (joost schouppe)

I cannot contribute cases where such a collaboration actually happened, but two very practical examples where it would be extremely useful. Both regard bicycle aspects of OSM. In my part of the world (Italy) the regional administration has no region-wide data on - cycling infrastructure (bicycle

[OSM-talk] Apply for a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Microgrant

Hi All, This week, we’re excited to launch the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Microgrants programme ! Many OSM communities around the world are achieving amazing results on zero or near-zero budgets. HOT wants to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

Joost Off the top of my head... The French government led by etalab have a really good model of working with OSM and several good projects.In the USG, USAID has been working with OSM and universities for data in Malaria spraying campaigns.Several resilience programs developed by the World Bank s

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

A couple of the city of Ottawa web sites use the osm map. Ottawa Hydro which is owned by the City for example. I think the UK has imported all the bus stops and there are tools to import the GTFS format transit data but that depends on the license of course. Cheerio John On 3 February 2017 at 1

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

TRIMet in Portland, Oregon, US is the regional transit operator. They use and contribute to OSM. The US National Park Service has been working on a version of iD that can feeds users changesets into both OSM and NPS. Last I heard it still is waiting to be rolled out. (Now that NPS is in trouble for

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM for government

The only OSM based project I know of at Stats Canada is the building project. The Census is something completely different. The sort of issues that are coming up are questions on data quality and can some Open Data be integrated into OSM. Another problem is inconsistent tagging. At the end of J

[OSM-talk] OSM for government

Hi, With the Belgian community, we're making some careful progress into getting government to really integrate OSM/VGI into their data management efforts. So not talking about background maps here, real data contribution or community engagement. There are some very specific issues and opportuniti