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

[Ben Abelshausen]

Hello,

If there is someone who wants to join me I'm prepared to make an appearance
at the Random Hacks of Kindness. I'm very interested in this anyway related
to developing countries. And if it's usefull for OSM or to get more open
data I'm there! :-)

Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,

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


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Pieter Colpaert
<pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Jo,
>
> I have heard a lot about you from Noël and from Pieter from De Lijn but
> they never succeeded in giving me your full name ;). From the moment I have
> the data under the right license I will reply here again. With iRail we
> have been publishing some geospatial data on data.iRail.be but these data
> need a lot of fixing still.
>
> Just to be able to convince Tourism Flanders that this is a useful thing
> to do, is anyone willing to join us for a day or 2 days Random Hacks of
> Kindness? They have a lot of more Geospatial data that I would like to get
> in the open.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
> --
> OKFN Belgium
> http://okfn.be
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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