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Crowdsourcing the Future of Government Data: OpenStreetMap in the Public Domain

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Crowdsourcing the Future of Government Data: OpenStreetMap in the Public Domain
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Is your government utilizing OpenStreetMap data in their workflows? How can crowdsourcing be leveraged to improve the completeness, freshness, and breadth of government geospatial data? As the world’s largest crowdsourced geospatial database, OpenStreetMap is poised to serve this need. Two years ago, OpenStreetMap US formed a Government Working Group to seek out mutually beneficial relationships between the public and open data communities. As part of this effort, OSM community members and representatives from federal agencies have been investigating solutions for feature collection. This collaboration has led to the development of Public Domain Map, which connects OpenStreetMap and government datasets. Through the Public Domain Map workflow, OpenStreetMap and government open geospatial data becomes more complete, current and readily usable by government agencies and the millions of users relying on both datasets. In this session, I will share the journey of Public Domain Map, how the project is bringing together US federal agencies and open source contributors to meet this goal, and how you can be part of it.
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