Hey all,<div><br></div><div>I asked Mikel Maron from the OSM Foundation Board for any pointers on government uptake of OSM. If a speaker phone could be made available, I could try to see if Andrew Turner would be willing/available to sit in on that part of our meeting to answer any questions from the OSM side. </div>
<div><br></div><div>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Mikel Maron, OSM</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikel@osmfoundation.org">mikel@osmfoundation.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:23 AM<br>Subject: Re: OSM use in government<br>To: <a href="mailto:bitner@dbspatial.com">bitner@dbspatial.com</a><br><br><br><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">
Hey David<br><br>There is a lot of active discussion on this .. governments all over, all scales, are interested in using OSM data in their work flows .. from donating data and just monitoring change, to giving authorative stamps to particular revisions of OSM, to making to fully basing their entire geographic data sets within OSM. Much of the thinking now is in how to integrate into workflows, and the kinds of new monitoring and evaluation tools, and visualization and social graph tools, would be needed to have governments comfortable using community gathered data. Basically, they see the value, and now comes the hard part of improving the OSM stack for their use.<br>
<br>There is one stand out govt agency that has gone further than anyone. That's Surrey Heath Council in the UK. James Rutter gave a
great talk at State of the Map on their move from Ordnance Survey to OSM.<br><br>Making the switch to OpenStreetMap - James Rutter (Surrey Heath Council, UK) <br><span><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/6051589" target="_blank">http://www.vimeo.com/6051589</a></span><br>
<br><br>At the other end of the spectrum, we've been engaged with the UN Geographic Information Working Group for a couple years. It's slow going, but there's some take up of our ideas in various places. In particular, UNICEF is quite interested. Here are some presentation materials from the last UNGIWG meeting.<br>
<br><span><a href="http://www.cartong.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=2" target="_blank">http://www.cartong.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=2</a></span><br>
<span><a href="http://www.cartong.org/GeOnG/Presentation/GeOnG_UNSDIT_UNJLC.ppt" target="_blank">http://www.cartong.org/GeOnG/Presentation/GeOnG_UNSDIT_UNJLC.ppt</a></span><br><br><br><div>As for making the call, 3:30 central is going to be tough for anyone in Europe or myself to join (I'm in Nairobi at the moment). Possibly Andrew Turner is interested to join, who is aware of all these efforts, and has been promoting OSM heavily in the US federal government.<br>
<br>Cheers<br>Mikel<br><br></div>== Mikel Maron ==<br><span><a href="http://mapkibera.org/" target="_blank">http://mapkibera.org/</a></span><br>+254 (0) 724899738<br><a href="mailto:mikel@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">mikel@osmfoundation.org</a><div>
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