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Nice... another government sponsored project / website. Why not simple pay/hire a bunch of geeks to upload all this data to an already existing platform, namel

• po1nt 5y ago
  Because if you do it redundantly, you can put your propaganda sticker on it.
• phoronixrly 5y ago
  Are you a part of the OSM community? Last time I checked bulk inserting data from official datasets was not always welcome[1]. There's also the following glaring issue: > Licenses - We are only interested in 'free' data. In fact we must be able to release their data with our OpenStreetMap License. This means it's OK to use Public Domain data; for other sources, please check license compatibility. While I would definitely like to see official datasets get incorporated into OSM, an initiative to make public institutions embrace openness and data re-use is required beforehand. Then there are the technical difficulties of synchronizing OSM with the latest official data and ensuring correctness. [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources