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

[Jo]

You should simply bring her along. She's hot too, I mean into HOT
(humanitarian...) too. LOL. Sorry, couldn't resist.

On a more serious note. It's not entirely clear to me yet how facilitating
to  incorporate/integrate/import the walking/cycling/horseback riding
networks from the authoritative source rhymes with humanitarian aid. I can
see how it would be a random hack of kindness. (Hopefully it won't take
away Marc's pleasure in actually going out and mapping them for real). Of
course, knowing where the routes are and mapping the actual roads they
follow and their conditions are still two different things, so it will
remain interesting to go out and map.

I'm mostly trying to make sure that what will be expected from us is to
find ways to convert the upstream data into something that is easy to
integrate with OSM data and to be able to do some quality control on it to
find differences between the OSM data and what Toerisme Vlaanderen has.

It would be nice to have a sneak preview on what that data looks like. csv
files? shape files? a dump directly from PostGIS, as they had the good
sense to use that already? :-)



Jo

2013/5/10 Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshausen at gmail.com>

> Nice! I was also thinking about Karlsruhe but it was expensive to go last
> time and I didn't really get any work done. Maybe next time...
>
> I will have to check with my girlfriend first and see if she will give me
> permission to go that weekend! :-) I'll get back to you when I'm sure I can
> join...
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Best regards,
>
> Ben Abelshausen
> ben.abelshausen at gmail.com
> http://twitter.com/xivk
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had been considering to go to Karlsruhe that weekend, but this is
>> nearer and possibly more worthwhile, so I'm subscribed now. Being a
>> minimalist and given my name is a well guarded secret I subscribed as Jo Jo
>> :-)
>>
>> I hope more people will attend though. I need to rest for an hour around
>> noon though. Should I go and look for some accomodation for the night?
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> 2013/5/10 Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>
>>
>>> 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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