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

[Jo]

Pieter sent me credentials for the WMS, WFS servers of Toerisme Vlaanderen.

While working my way through the manual of QGIS, this seemed like a good
way to practice...

So I connected to the WFS server and found the cycling node network's nodes
and routes.

QGIS makes it trivial to convert these to SHP files, which in turn can be
read directly by JOSM or stored in PostGIS.

So far so good.

What would be relatively easy to implement is a comparison between the
locations of the nodes and creating a report where the distance is too big.

Comparing the shapes of the routes between the nodes themselves is less
trivial, although many would be corrected already, merely by fixing the
routes where we got the location of the nodes wrong at the moment.

Before we can move forward with the data, Toerisme Vlaanderen needs to give
us permission to use it though. At the moment the license seems to permit
everything except printing for non internal use. Of course, once the data
is in OSM, that limitation can't be enforced, so we can't use it as a
source yet.

I'm not entirely sure how showing that we are technically able to use their
data to improve ours is going to convince TVL that it's a good idea to
really liberate the data without that final restriction, but I'm sure
working and exchanging experiences on this the first weekend of June will
be worthwhile nevertheless.

Jo
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