[OSM-talk-be] Project updates

[Ben Abelshausen]

Hi,

A little bit about my projects:

We are on our way back from SOTM. We have had lots of conversations here
with people and specifically with Christian Quest about his great
openstreetmap.fr map style. It shows a lot more data like pedestrian
crossings, shops, sports-related stuff and many many more things because it
has 2 extra zoom levels. There are also specific icons for each bus/train
operator and things like bpost :-)! He also explained some work he did on
the openstreetmap.fr website and i'm thinking about duplicating this work
with our own style and multilingual support but maybe somebody already
started with a website? Who owns osm.be btw?

Their website is just a simple drupal website, this should not be difficult
to do and easy to manage. We would also be able to reuse some of his work.
What I would also like to do is copy his mapstyle and use it for Belgium
too and create dutch/french language versions. We can announce events and
everybody can post news about their own projects if they want to. I would
like a seperate website because the wiki is too complicated for new users
and non-openstreetmappers just looking for some information but i think we
already discussed this and most seemed to agree?

We (me and Jorieke V) are also still doing meetups and introducing new
people to OpenStreetMap. The next meetup will be next week again in Gent
(we might even do a mapping party!) but there will also be something in
Antwerpen somewhere in the next couple of weeks I think. You are always
welcome to do a meetup yourself if you have time. I also changed the name
of our meetup group to OpenStreetMap Belgium:
http://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/

I'm also collaborating with frederik rodrigo from openstreetmap.fr to get
the new AGIV data into their system. This will allow us to easily merge the
AGIV CRAB-data with what is there in OSM. Not sure yet how this will work
so more news on this later.

There is also going to be a day of OpenStreetMap at FOSDEM together with
OSM-FR again.

Best Regards,

Ben
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