The city of Ottawa already uses OSM in their opendata portal: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/sledding-hills http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/neighbourhood-names http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/airport-runways etc etc But I doubt they know/care as their portal was built by a consultant and not them.
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:31 AM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi John, > > The page Clifford shared is of course an excellent resource (I started the > article :) > But your remarks are not very government-specific, so you probably won't > find an answer there. > > > >> 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. >>> >> > There's many projects working on that problem. In Belgium we have a > famously complicated situation. Especially Brussels is interesting, where > both French and Dutch are used in the name=* field, split by " - " and with > language in more or less random order. We're working on mono-lingual tiles > to help with that: > http://tile.openstreetmap.be/#map=12/50.84366/4.39113 > > >> >>> 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? >>> >> > There are many ways to count thing on a map :) > Just a random example: you might want to make a classification of > different kinds of neighborhoods (sleeper village, city center, > agricultural area, holiday area). You can do that completely automated for > a whole country using OSM data (if it is complete enough) > > > 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. >>> >>> > Well yes, and there is no such thing as a free lunch. There are limits to > the use of OSM.org tiles. Running your own tile server is often deemed too > complicated by local governments. For bigger websites, they will often look > at the likes of Mapbox. > > >> Anyone any examples of how local government is using OSM? >>> >> > What Clifford said :) > > >> 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. >>> >>> > Typically, one branch of government has no clue what another branch is > doing. > > > -- > Joost Schouppe > OpenStreetMap <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/joost%20schouppe/> | > Twitter <https://twitter.com/joostjakob> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joost-schouppe/48/939/603> | Meetup > <http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/members/97979802/> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- 外に遊びに行こう!
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