In Canada the federal government works with other levels of government to collect GIS information which is then released to OSM etc. as the CANVEC dataset.
Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver have released some data as open and have a number of apps running based on this data. for example: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/technology/Software+developer+wins+Edmonton+competition/3531077/story.html#ixzz105I5lCK7 All are rethinking their licensing to align it with OSM. Some politicians have been using OSM to show ideas when electioneering. Andrew MacKinnon posted the following on CA-talk "Found an interesting use of OpenStreetMap data - Sarah Thompson's mayoral campaign is using it to display a proposed network of bike lanes in Toronto: http://sarahthomson.ca/blog/sarah-thomsons-bike-city"; The maps at the bottom of the page are OSM. Ottawa city planners have difficulties when trying to give someone a map showing new developments because of map copyright issues and they are very interested in OSM for this reason. Hope that helps. Cheerio John On 20 September 2010 15:04, Valent Turkovic <valent.turko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > if I would write an NGO project for my hometown (Osijek in Croatia) that > does some specific data collection of some type (like all bus stations, > all cycle tracks, etc). Do I need some special permission from OSM board > to do this? > > Second question that I have is, been there been some joint ventures > between OSM and some cities/towns or local government (except Haiti)?. > Has anybody gotten support from their local government or city council? > On what kind of project have you been working on? > > We have a local NGO and would like to present OSM and ask for support, > but city council would like to see how can they benefit from it. Just > explaining how OSM is a great project and how it has hundreds of > thousands active members won't impress them. We have one nice example as > city owned transport company uses OSM maps on their website and shows > trams in transit via gps. > > I would love to hear more positive feedback from people who have made > contact between OSM and local government and/or cities. What for can > local government use OSM maps and data for? Any good example would be > great! > > > Thank you in advance for your feedback, > Valent. > > -- > pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt > blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com > linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće > registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. > ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turko...@hotmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
