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Any case of OSM adoptions in national mapping agencies?

Hi all,

If this topic is not proper to this mailing list, please forgive me. 

I'm just curious about whether any countries' NMA(National Mapping Agency) or NGI(National Geographic
Institute) had ever given away data to OSM or used OSM data officially.

Relating to this topic, I found very interesting case in South Africa from Gavin's post[1]. I'm currently
looking for similar case like South Africa. 

You help will be appreciated. 

With regards, 

Sanghee

[1] http://afrispatial.co.za/open-data/osm-to-become-a-distributor-of-ngis-south-african-topo-data/

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Richard Weait | 3 Feb 15:53

Re: Any case of OSM adoptions in national mapping agencies?

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Shin, Sanghee <endofcap@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> If this topic is not proper to this mailing list, please forgive me.
>
> I'm just curious about whether any countries' NMA(National Mapping Agency) or NGI(National Geographic
Institute) had ever given away data to OSM or used OSM data officially.

Dear Sanghee,

Yes.

Natural Resources Canada has granted permission for use of their data
in OSM.  NRCan also publishes some datasets in the .osm format to ease
inclusion of that data in OSM.

There are others as well.

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J. Schneider | 3 Feb 18:07

Re: Any case of OSM adoptions in national mapping agencies?

As far as I remember, in France there are a lot of landuse polygons with
a source tag that comes from some state-run entity.
regards
Joachim

Am 03.02.2012 07:49, schrieb Shin, Sanghee:
> Hi all,
> 
> If this topic is not proper to this mailing list, please forgive me. 
> 
> I'm just curious about whether any countries' NMA(National Mapping Agency) or NGI(National Geographic
Institute) had ever given away data to OSM or used OSM data officially.
> 
> Relating to this topic, I found very interesting case in South Africa from Gavin's post[1]. I'm currently
looking for similar case like South Africa. 
> 
> You help will be appreciated. 
> 
> With regards, 
> 
> Sanghee
> 
> [1] http://afrispatial.co.za/open-data/osm-to-become-a-distributor-of-ngis-south-african-topo-data/
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