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

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Fri May 10 09:54:35 UTC 2013


As soon as they do, give us a sign. I have a script to do quality control
on the node networks. This can be expanded quite easily to compare to an
upstream source. Noël is also the person who has helped with getting
permission to publish the data from De Lijn.
I'm gaining a lot of experience with PostGIS and QGIS lately, so time
permitting it shouldn't be too hard to get all of our routes in synch with
their data.
Now I should go and have another look at the Urbis data... but maybe I'm
trying to juggle too many balls at the moment.

Jo

2013/5/10 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>

> 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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