[TCMUG] Fwd: OSM use in government

[David William Bitner]

Hey all,

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.

David

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mikel Maron, OSM <mikel at osmfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: OSM use in government
To: bitner at dbspatial.com


Hey David

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.

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.

Making the switch to OpenStreetMap - James Rutter (Surrey Heath Council, UK)

http://www.vimeo.com/6051589


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.

http://www.cartong.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=128&Itemid=2
http://www.cartong.org/GeOnG/Presentation/GeOnG_UNSDIT_UNJLC.ppt


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.

Cheers
Mikel

== Mikel Maron ==
http://mapkibera.org/
+254 (0) 724899738
mikel at osmfoundation.org
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