Re: [OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-14 Thread Clifford Snow
This is a new wiki page, https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_for_Government, for governments that use OSM. Please feel free to update the page to include Ottawa Hydro. Best, Clifford On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 2:02 PM, john whelan wrote: > Do we have a wiki entry on this subject? > >

[OSM-talk] What can we offer local government?

2017-03-14 Thread john whelan
Do we have a wiki entry on this subject? It has come up a couple of times. Locally this morning talking to the guy who supplies us with Ottawa bus stops under an approved open data licence. It only took five years from start to finish to get it approved on both sides. It has also come up in Lusak

Re: [OSM-talk] New Overpass API v0.7.54 version

2017-03-14 Thread MichaƂ Brzozowski
About these "dark" POIs, I can claim prior art ;) Initially I thought about buildings, but then I realized you can more easily search nodes with name=* and addr:housenumber=* that don't have any main (shop, amenity, ...) tag. These are often a result of iD beginners ;) https://forum.openstreetmap.o