[OSM-talk-be] SNCF & OSM France - how about Belgium?

[Ben Abelshausen]

Hi,

My french is not that good but isn't this about mapping accessibility
features in trainstations and less about the public transport routing,
multimodal routing or anything related to that?

If you are asking about a project that would be a joint mapping effort i'm
not sure if this is something we are ready for here. I think we would be
talking about 10 to max 30 mappers that are on this mailing list and that
would maybe participate. I'm not sure something like this would work but I
could be wrong (and i hope i'm wrong).

At least our last meetup had 5 people, 3 of them I had never seem before.

If a decision is made to try something similar i will also try my very best
to participate and make this a success. I had a similar idea for another
project that is going on with OSM: The emergency services also use the map,
maybe something could also be done there to organize a joint-mapping effort.

We also don't have infrastructure similar to the french: a dedicated OSM-be
website, a place where users can get the latest osm-be news, how would we
announce an effort like this to people that are not on the list???

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

Ben Abelshausen
ben.abelshausen at gmail.com
http://twitter.com/xivk

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pieter,
>
> We are interested in all that is geographic, this includes multimodal
> routing, so PT is certainly a part of that. (Not so much the schedules
> though, that needs to be handeld by the routing engine).
>
> You know I'm working hard on integrating the data of De Lijn and I was
> hoping to be able to do the same for TEC and MIVB/STIB, at some point, but
> I've been reading some of your publications and I understand they are not
> at all keen on opening up their data, to put it mildly. As far as MIVB/STIB
> goes, this seems weird, as they were the first to work together with Google.
>
> I think Ben Laenen has been drawing many railways. Would SNCB/NMBS be
> willing to share the locations of their stations and railroad tracks?
> Mostly the railroad tracks and the naming of the lines. I think we already
> have all the stations. The UrbIS data also contains all the railways in the
> region of Brussels.
>
> The data is in constant flux though. So it would be nice to get some sort
> of feed when stations are abolished/created anew.
>
> I think we would also be interested in a list of stations where trains
> call, but no tickets can be bought, or opening hours of the windows. Which
> stations have vending machines and their locations.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jo
>
> 2013/6/24 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>
>
>> Hi OSM BE,
>>
>> In France they are doing this:
>> http://openstreetmap.fr/partenariat-sncf-transilien
>>
>> Would it be interesting to do the same things for Belgium? I can get the
>> one who wants to get it forward in contact with SNCB
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Pieter
>>
>>
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