[OSM-talk-be] announcement of a workshop in Brussels talking about OSM-mapnik

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 24 January 2013 22:53:44 Linusable wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FYI, today, i received the following text concerning a workshop to be
> held in Brussels next month, on a subject related to OpenStreetMap (and
> the graphical engine Mapnik). I surprisingly read within the
> contribution list the name of : "Open Streetmap (BE/FR)
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium !"
> 
> Is somebody from the present list involved in this organization ?

I'm not involved, but I know several of the people from Constant. In short, 
Constant is some sort of art laboratory based in Brussels, which is heavily 
invested in open source tools.

I haven't spoken them about this particular event, but I think the reason OSM 
is listed there is because they make use of the data to make interesting 
visualizations of it, rather than just mapping anything. But they are OSM 
contributors as well. Do note that the people from Constant were actually the 
first ones to organize a mapping party in Belgium back in 2007.

Ben