[OSM-talk-be] Workshop Trage Wegen - short report

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

THank you very much Wouter fot this good and interesting report.

2011/6/19 Wouter Hamelinck <wouter.hamelinck at gmail.com>:

> After a short lunch break we went out to do some tracking. Most of us
> went on to discover the paths around Haaltert. Polyglot showed a great
> interest in house numbers which caused the local people to alert the
> police about this suspect activity.

does this mean that the inhabitants did not like that the people
passing by write their house number ? Have I well understood ?

> I finished with a short demonstration of Potlatch and JOSM.
> Unfortunately there was a lack of time to let the attendees experiment
> a lot with their own data.

good to know.

Could you give us some idea about the timing you had = what did take
how much time ?

> For this reason I have limited my edits
> this far to the region where the others did not go. I will keep an eye
> on the evolution the coming days.
+1

> There was a very positive response from the people of the vzw Trage
> Wegen. They have a lot of data and have problems to make it public.

very good.

> They see a lot of possibilities in OSM at the very minimum to use it
> as a background layer. They intend to recreate there website, with a
> new site that should be more map-oriented and e.g. allows visitors to
> draw the trage wegen/voies lentes by themselves.

hope fully this could lead to some other easy ways to enter data in OSM.
> A few problems:
> * A lot of their data is based on NGI-data and hence not directly usable in OSM

how are these data based on NGI data ? copied, inspered ? Could this
be used as one way to go to NGI and ask them for a specific limited
access to some of their data in a way that would be compatible with
OSM .

> * They are very hesitating to redo all the work they have done this
> far.

this is understandable. This support the idea of
1/ open-standard to encode the data
2/ have the data free right from the beginning !

>  Some automation should be needed. (Will need follow-up)
> * The editors are intimidating for not-very-computer-minded people.
> According to me it would be good to have an a to z explanation with
> the minimum knowledge for specific interests. This means a full
> description from creating an OSM-account and recording tracks to the
> tags needed (in the case of trage wegen/voies lentes just
> track/path/footway/cycleway would in fact be enough, they don't care a
> lot about the rest) in one file or one page on the wiki. I think I'll
> give that a shot.

Good idea to have very short films to sho how to do something with
OSM, specifically explaining the points that interest these people.

> Major opportunity: they are very eager to distribute the data that
> they have. In that point of view we are completely at the same
> wavelength.

+10

THanks again

Nicolas
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Nicolas Pettiaux, dr. sc