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

Steve Coast steve at asklater.com
Sat May 11 17:16:57 UTC 2013


Awesome :-)


On May 10, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch> wrote:

> 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
>> 
> 





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