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<div>Hi Adrian,</div><div><br></div>To add to that, there's an overview of all the channels at our local chapter's website: <a href="https://openstreetmap.be/en/contact.html">https://openstreetmap.be/en/contact.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>We have decent Mapillary coverage, but are constantly looking to get more and better cameras for our volunteers (hint, hint).</div><div>There is good and recent imagery (properly indexed both in the imagery layer index and the JOSM index). There are also good basemaps from the government, which you can use for mapping.</div><div><br></div><div>As always, both imagery and basemaps can be outdated - sometimes OSM is ahead, sometimes it isn't. There's quite an active community, so be mindful of the last edit date on object (I should know, I recently messed up JanFi's work).</div><div><br></div><div>What data will you be basing your edits on? I would think that Brussels is mapped pretty well, so it might be hard to improve remotely. <br></div><div>It might be useful to start off with just Notes, so that we can review them locally. That might avoid any editing conflict.</div><div>I think the most active mapper in Brussels is bxl-forever, might be useful to engage him directly.</div><div><br></div><div>Joost<br></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op wo 22 apr. 2020 om 20:01 schreef Pieter Vander Vennet <<a href="mailto:pietervdvn@posteo.net">pietervdvn@posteo.net</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hello Adrian and Telenav-team.</p>
<p>Welcome in Belgium, the more support, the merrier.</p>
<p>First of all, there is quite an active community in Belgium - I'm
one of them, as are several others. As already mentioned, the
matrix-chat is an excellent way to reach out to us and have
questions answered quite fast - please join us here:
<a href="https://riot.im/app/#/room/%23osmbe:matrix.org" target="_blank">https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org</a><br>
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<p>Second, I was wondering where you are based - the best way to map
is by using local knowledge and by running around to see what the
situation is. Also, being here IRL will allow us to meetup or to
get in touch with the OpenKnowledge Belgium - they do great work
for Open Source and Open Data.<br>
<br>
However, I presume that you will mostly be doing remote work,
based on official data and mapillary streetview. This too can be
useful, but the situation of Brussels is quite volatile and might
change a lot. Don't be afraid to to ask us (or a local) to check
up on the situation.</p>
<p>At last, a lot of cyclists are using OSM in Brussels - the
company I work for even hosts a professional cycle route planner
for the city. Please, be careful not to break it. Especially when
adding 'oneway=yes', this might force the routeplanner to consider
this oneway <i>for cyclists as well.</i> Please, if it is clear
that cyclists are allowed to go both ways, add 'oneway:bicycle=no'
or, even better, add the appropriate cycleway tags
('cycleway=lane', 'cycleway=track', ...)</p>
<p>Kind regards,<br>
Pietervdvn<br>
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<div>On 22.04.20 13:08, Adrian Budugan
wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span>Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span>I am Adrian and I am part
of the Mapping Team at Telenav. </span><span>Our team started an
editing project in </span><span>Belgium t</span><span>o make OpenStreetMap more
navigable and accurate in guidance.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span>We will start editing
in Brussels at the end of April, next week. There are more
details here - <a href="https://github.com/TelenavMapping/EU_mapping_projects/issues/4" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(59,115,175)">https://github.com/TelenavMapping/EU_mapping_projects/issues/4</span></a>.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span>We will focus on one
ways, turn restrictions, road geometry and quality
assurance.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span>We we'd love to hear your
advice on any local mapping guidelines, besides the general
OSM mapping ones (<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(59,115,175)">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page</span></a>, <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(59,115,175)">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features</span></a>).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px">
<span>Also, we appreciate any
hints regarding available local or government data that we
might be able to us or anything else that might come in
handy.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span>If there are any other
OSM communication channels for Belgium, please let us know. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span>If you have any questions
or comments, please let me/us know.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span>We are looking forward to
hearing from you.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span>Thank you!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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