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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, namely OpenStreetmaps.org ?

So this is where my European tax-euro's go to...



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


Because if you do it redundantly, you can put your propaganda sticker on it.




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