Questions before the State of the Map
Next week we’ll attend the international State of the Map conference in Amsterdam,and we’ve got a few questions for the OSM experts.
We’re talking with Josemari Aranburu, chief of B5M, the Geographical information office of Gipuzkoa (a Basque region), about getting their data licensed for OSM. Gipuzkoa is the smallest province in Spain, but their GIS infrastructure is probably one of the most exhaustive and detailed. Have a look and zoom in, don’t forget to try their bird’s eye view too: Donostia
Josemari is interested on sharing data with OSM, but there are some open questions that would like to have answered before going further:
- He’d like to keep their own copy of the data, so that they could be the data store for OSM in their area of influence. So would it be any chance to have the OpenStreetMap data in distributed servers? For example, B5M could care about data in Gipuzkoa.
- How can collaborate public institutions and OSM? Is there any options for public institutions to get feedback from OSM, so that they not only provide data but can reuse the information added by OSM users? or does OSM only offer a one way data transaction for big data providers?
We’ll try to get some answers on this questions from Amsterdam, but don’t be shy and help us from now on!
Tags: openstreetmap, StateOfTheMap