[OSM-talk-be] Intro and invitation to Random Hacks of Kindness

[Pieter Colpaert]

Hi Marc,

We are trying to convince them to publish the data under the second Flemish
Open Data License (
http://opendataforum.be/forums/4f292b7aaa6d63560100000d/forum_topics/51836bffce3fb564340000dc).
Their technical people are already all up for it, just the policy side
needs a bit of convincing but that shouldn't be a big problem because of
the Flemish licenses.

Kind regards,

Pieter


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hallo Pieter,
>
> The problem with importing the data is the license. I believe we do not
> have their permission to copy the data into OSM.
>
> As far as being not up-to-date: the hiking paths are far from complete,
> but the data is rather recent (less than 2 years old). The data on
> http://www.wandelknooppunt.be/ might be more complete, but isn't always
> correct neither. I have no idea what their source is. I have asked them to
> collaborate, but got no response.
>
> The cycling network data might be older, but is still being updated.
>
> It woud be nice to have an application like wandelknooppunt based on OSM
> data.
>
> regards
>
> m
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Pieter Colpaert <
> pieter.colpaert at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm Pieter Colpaert, one of the people behind Open Knowledge Foundation
>> Belgium. We are trying to stimulate open knowledge in Belgium, which mostly
>> boils down to helping open data policies to sprout.
>>
>> The first and the second of June we have teamed up with Random Hacks of
>> Kindness to hack something for humanity. We have been in contact with the
>> Flemish tourism organisation and they are thinking about doing open data
>> with the bicycle routes, hiking routes and horseback riding paths. I have
>> asked them about the difference with OSM, and they said the data in OSM is
>> not at all up to date. How about making an effort at RHoK to use these data
>> and feed them into OSM? We could then use a lot of existing apps on top of
>> bicycle maps and show them how cool open data is :)
>>
>> http://okfn.be/2013/05/10/rhok/
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Pieter
>>
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