maning sambale: >Sent: 04 June 2008 9:47 AM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Enabling communities to use OSM as a planning tool > >This too is my dream, by agregating physical features done by >volunteers, we will eventually gather a very rich geospatial info than >any other mapping agency. For fairly complete areas, I believe it can >now be used for planning. But as I understand (correct me if I am >wrong), OSM is for mapping existing features. On the other hand, >there are existing tools that can be used to extract relevant info >from the database to be imported to other geo-softwares.
Agreed, but the point I am making is that local communities don't generally have access to other tools, but they do have access to OSM's tools. I'm not suggesting that the Local Authority would use OSM as its planning platform. Community groups are usually made up of people like us, local residents and the like. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
