A detailed map is an essential tool for firefighters, ambulance, and
police. And not only of the town itself but also of the countryside
especially along railways and automobile roads.
The city of Stockholm built an interactive public transportation map on
the basis of OSM: https://sl.se/en/ . People can see still at home when
their bus is arriving at the stop.
The city of Odessa created the similar public transportation map but on
the basis of a commercial map: http://transport.odessa.ua/ . It was
extremely useful web-application, one could see how the trams'
geo-markers were moving on the map. The web-application became very
popular, and the commercial map underneath stopped working normally for
some, probably also commercial, reason.
I mean a municipal project which is based on an open data map running
on the municipal server could be more resilient and affordable,
especially if it becomes popular.
A big separate topic is e-commerce delivery services. A rookie delivery
driver may search for an address in a city in some cases for hours. This
excessive driving could be reduced significantly if a driver could see a
delivery address on the map. It would mean less pollution, accidents,
pavement wear.
Best regards,
Oleksiy
On 03.01.19 22:07, John Whelan 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
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