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 <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Lusaka Zambia. > > Both locations use more than one language. Both seemed unaware that the > map can be in languages other than English. Apparently politically this > can be very important. > > Using R R.org apparently we can count things in the map. Why anyone would > want to do this is a mystery to me but apparently statistians make money > from it so it must be useful to someone. Possibly local governments? > > The contact from Ottawa was aware that the city paid for the maps it used > on some of their web sites but wasn't sure about using OSM instead, the > idea of not having a contract would be difficult to get across. > > Anyone any examples of how local government is using OSM? I understand > part of the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Hydro does use OSM on its web site by > the way. Something my contact was unaware of. > > Thanks John > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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