Then of course we have the mapping for the blind and disabled which are useful in supporting their citizens or visitors who are partially sighted or disabled.
On the cycling front there are numerous maps, layers and routing software available as there are for footpaths to encourage walking so public health benefits. On the tourism side we have multilingual maps and then we have the simple making it easier to find municipal facilities. OSM has been used for countless student GIS projects or as an introduction to GIS. Then we have the idea of using crowd sourcing. I should probably gather these ideas and put them in the wiki together with the links. Thanks John On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 5:26 PM Mike N <nice...@att.net wrote: > On 1/3/2019 5:13 PM, Simon Poole wrote: > > The slightly longer version is that there are likely economic benefits > > of many different kinds (traffic control, real estate, marketing and so > > on) that are difficult to quantify but are likely there. > > Re: real estate use case - I have seen local agents refer to > neighborhoods that I put on OSM by surveying the new streets. Clients > could be directed to use mapping apps to find a new neighborhood or new > street that is on a city's GIS but not on other maps yet. (not sure > which app they tell their clients to use) > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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