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

[Marc Gemis]

just an idea as, unfortunately, I don't have the time to do this myself. So
feel free to implement it.

m


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Pieter Colpaert
<pieter.colpaert at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> I totally agree!
>
> Are you going to help out at Random Hacks of Kindness yourself or is this
> only an idea for us to implement? Would be great to collaborate :)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pieter
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Pieter,
>>
>> My "killer" application to show them would be a single website that
>> combines the following functionality:
>>
>> a) walking routes (both knooppunten and local routes) with distance as
>> openwandelkaart.nl
>> b) background of hikebikemap.de ( I love the hill shading) (and it's
>> faster than openwandelkaart)
>> c) route creation as on wandelknooppunt.be (not OSM based)
>> d) tourist information
>>    d1) hotels, pubs, restaurants, attractions with links to their
>> websites & opening hours
>>         (see  openlinkmap.org and
>> http://www.netzwolf.info/kartografie/osm/time_domain/map_opening)
>>    d2) the direct link to mijnlijn for busses (see openlinkmap.org)
>>    d3) historic buildings, etc as in
>> http://geschichtskarten.openstreetmap.de/historische_objekte/ with
>> images, wikipedia links (also in openlinkmap), protected monuments, etc.
>>    d4) picnic sites, benches, sidewalks, road quality, other information
>> important to walking/hiking
>>
>> I would not focus on getting only their data into OSM, (nor De Lijn, nor
>> Onroerend Erfgoed), but show an app that combines all this data with the
>> data we have today. It's the combination of all this data that makes OSM
>> great, not the individual pieces that each institute has themselves.
>>
>> just my .5 cent
>>
>> m.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be>wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/10/2013 02:03 PM, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Importing this data into OSM is never going to work I think, but just
>>>> like the AGIV data, it can be used to aid mapping. This way we can get the
>>>> data into OSM to a quality level even exceeding the original data.
>>>> Something I'm sure data providers are interested in.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed, It would be a disaster importing AGIV data as-is , by itself its
>>> very valuable but after like housenumbering my town here I can positively
>>> confirm that it's not up to date with buildings newer than like 1/2 years
>>> and that it still contains plenty of errors (buildings too little/ too much
>>> / wrong housenumbers / incomplete ones  (100 vs 100/1 vs 100/a etc).
>>>
>>> But to aid osm mapping and verifying, or doublechecking data, it sure
>>> helps, but imports will never be as well done as a human being would
>>> scrutinise the data more thoroughly.
>>>
>>> Glenn
>>>
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