[OSM-talk-be] Test website for OSM streets

[Kenny Knecht]

Hi Luc,

I don't see where there are copyright issues here regarding OSM, because I
don't put any data whatsoever in OSM, I just pull some out of it. The data
on the website is just an indication where there is still some manual
good-old-fashioned work to do. To make that easier I link to a public url of
AGIV (and that is the only interaction with AGIV), but that how could that
be a copyright issue? You cannot copy any data from that link, you can just
view data (that's why it is public of course). I could have used Google maps
too: they encourage that with a whole javascript API.
For Gent I used the officiäl street list which is also on their web site too
http://www.gent.be/docs/Departement%20bevolking%20en%20Welzijn/Dienst%20bevolking/straatnaam.pdf.

If people give me a list of street in their municipality, why not compare
that list OSM and make some nice but entirely useless graphs? That's the
nice part about programming: program once, use many times.

Kenny

2010/2/2 Luc Van den Troost <luc.antw at gmail.com>

> Hi Kenny,
>
>
> Here in Antwerpen I did a similar job, comparing streetnames in OSM with
> the 'officiele stratenlijst' from the city.
>
> However, this was done on names/postcode only, and the 'officiele
> straatnamenlijst' is a public document that is maintained by the city
> council.
>
> You seem to go beyond that and seem to be comparing/linking to maps that
> are copyrighted. Doing that in a systematic way probably gives copyright
> issues! I cant really check it now, as the gis-vlaanderen site seems under
> maintanance right now.
>
> I am afraid you can not go beyond a 'streetname list' to do your checks, if
> you do not want to end up with copyright issues.
>
> If you want to see how I did it for Antwerpen see
> http://www.bb2000.be/stratenzoeker/state.html
> Will do an update on that one later today. Updates got less frequent as
> most streets have been entered over time.
>
> Luc / Speedy
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Kenny Knecht <kenny.knecht at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I've been doing a little programming and I would like to share the results
>> with you: if you go http://users.edpnet.be/kknecht/ you arrive at a
>> website where you can find the state of the OSM maps for some municipalities
>> in the neighbourhood of Gent.
>> In detail you can find
>>
>>    - the missing streets, which are in official lists (these can be found
>>    in general at municipality websites, often reading the HTML source of the
>>    streetmap website)
>>    - the streets in OSM NOT in the official list: personally I think
>>    these are the most important,because that way we can clean our database!
>>    - some history shots where the coverage per km^2 on a three-monthly
>>    basis (this is just some graphic sugar, but it is nice to see your work
>>    evolve isn't it?)
>>
>> Now the good news is that it's a piece of cake to do this for ANY Belgian
>> municipality, so if you want yours added, all you have to send me is a text
>> file just containing all the official street names, each on a separate line,
>> and I add the info soon... if I have time ;-)
>>
>> If you have comments or suggestions: just let me know.
>>
>> So long,
>>
>> Kenny
>>
>>
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