John — a fairly new resource is the Welcome site, https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/ <https://welcome.openstreetmap.org/why-openstreetmap/> specifically may be interesting to point them to. It’s fairly high level and brief in its explanations, but if gives organizations a place to start when they’re not familiar with OSM and consider using it or contributing to it.
A common issue I have seen with governments wanting to use OSM data is the license, so they should look into that if they intend to use OSM data as a replacement / back-fill for any data they may now maintain themselves. Often it’s a one-way street: Governments can contribute data to OSM but they can’t use OSM data to enrich their own. YMMV, this is my experience from talking to governments in the U.S. Martijn > On Jan 3, 2019, at 2:07 PM, John Whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I got a phone call from someone who works for a municipality who was passed > my phone number. Basically asking from a municipal government point of view > was there any advantage to the municipality in having their municipality > mapped in detail in OpenStreetMap. > > Off the top of my head businesses etc can provide map of where they are > located without payment and list their web sites and phone numbers etc. > > Is there a web page somewhere that covers this? > > It is quite a serious question and I suspect will be used to justify some > expenditure and effort to help enrich the map. > > Thanks John > > > -- > Sent from Postbox > <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campaign=reach>_______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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