[Osmf-talk] A workshop about OSM at OKCon?

[Oleksiy Muzalyev]

Hello Steve,

We started to think about it after reading the article: "OpenStreetMap:
Addressable?" in November 2012.

By now the following districts of Geneva are more or less completed,
i.e. addressable:

Champel: http://osm.org/go/0CFtBKQOU-
Carouge: http://osm.org/go/0CFm~ETPt-
Lancy: http://osm.org/go/0CFmzdHl1-
and some others.

We discussed the project at the Annual General Meeting of the Swiss
OpenStreetMap Association http://sosm.ch/ in March 2013, and received
encouragement from the board and from other members.

Here is the short description of the project:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Alex-7/diary

This project is possible because of such mappers in Geneva area as
x-pab, Manu1400, Marc Mongenet, and others.

We survey and map not only the house numbers but also libraries,
museums, monuments, etc.

And I've made some interesting discoveries for myself during
expeditions. It is sort of communicating with the city through physical
presence. Before I did not even know that such a phenomenon exists.

Nowadays I do not want anymore dumping house numbers from some existing
database into the OSM map. It is quite feasible to make it addressable
via surveys.

brgds,
Oleksiy



On 10.05.2013 22:06, Steve Coast wrote:
> 
> On May 10, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:
>> One of the projects of the Swiss OpenStreetMap Association
>> http://sosm.ch/ is to make the whole map of Geneva addressable via
>> on-the-ground surveys. Geneva is a show-window of Switzerland because a
>> lot of important international organizations are based in this city.
> 
> Is there anything on the web about this specific project, because it sounds great?
> 
> Steve
>