OpenStreetMap Poland managed to get railway crossing reference codes from one of organizations managing railways in Poland.
It succeeded partially thanks to being Serious and Official, Legally Existing Organisation. It was then imported - it is signposted, it could be mapped manually but import of open data (on a matching license) was thousands times easier. Support for searching for this codes was used to software used by many firefighters in Poland. And all firefighting departments in one of regions of Poland recently got official info that this location method is now supported in that software (copy of that official document was send also to OpenStreetMap Polska). BTW, the mentioned system for firefighters is running primarily on OpenStreetMap data, attribution is shown in bottom right corner. Screen from paper send to firefighting departments, includes screenshot of the data in use (a bit mangled due to screenshot -> printing -> scanning -> screenshot cycle): https://i.imgur.com/sB9sUyW.png import discussion: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=69113 And import was possible and useful in the first place thanks to all data already present - primarily manually mapped, so I think it is a good usecase how imports may be helpful in avoiding drudgery and adding useful data
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