Also to note that despite city believing their data is 100% correct, it never seems to be the case thus requiring data manipulation/corrections. In a way OSM is a repository with accurate/validated geo data
On Thu., Jan. 3, 2019, 5:40 p.m. john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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