[OSM-talk-be] osm.be

Tue Sep 10 17:10:46 UTC 2013

Hi,

Why not be.openstreetmap.org + be.osm.org and generalize this to other
countries?
Even as alias if other names already exist, that would be a no cost, no
hassle, no search consistent solution.
Quite possible, because their current sub-domains are only:
osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    a.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    b.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    c.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
geo.osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    a.ns.osm.org.
geo.osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    b.ns.osm.org.
geo.osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    c.ns.osm.org.
geo.osm.org.        259200    IN    NS    d.ns.osm.org.
openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    a.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    b.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    c.ns.bytemark.co.uk.
geo.openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    a.ns.openstreetmap.org.
geo.openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    b.ns.openstreetmap.org.
geo.openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    c.ns.openstreetmap.org.
geo.openstreetmap.org.    259200    IN    NS    d.ns.openstreetmap.org.

I suppose it's a "just ask" matter.

Why not ask free hosting at a Geographic faculty of one University?
People in Liège are very kind. I worked at ULg and I may try to
introduce osm.be if needed.

I'm perfectly happy with a byethost.com <http://www.byethost.com/> server.
Especially, even with my *free**account*, I can access my server's files
as if they were local (in my local filesystem).
(That's using gvfs-ftp)
For 4 (250B/m) to 7 (unlimited) $/m, their technical specs are impressive
Any local site building software is OK.  Please choose Win-Debian
Linux-OS X software if you share an account.

The only two "problems" I ever met were:
- they closed my site a few times for bogus reasons; the real one is
that they were trying to have me pay.
- I was receiving a bad reputation mark from WOT
<http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/papou.byethost7.com>. Those guys are
out of their mind: look carefully and you'll see that they attribute me
the reputation of another site, that "Good site: Other users consider
this site trustworthy, and it has a good reputation based on user
ratings" and that, in consequence, my Trustworthiness is Unsatisfactory.
But I moved to another hostname
<http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/byethost9.com>  and the problem was
gone (same provider, just a matter of chance, isn't WOT mad?).
Note: that if a site is not accessed (at all) for two months (very
difficult to do but I managed ;-), you only have two days after a
warning to refresh it.  But, again, I suspect it's a manœuvre to have
you pay to get your data back if you don't.

Cheers,,

André.

On 2013-09-10 14:33, Ben Schalley wrote :
> I have some experience with Joomla (http://www.joomla.org). It can be
> extended to accommodate multilingual websites
> (http://www.joomfish.net). There are lost of extensions for Joomla.
>
> Instead of hardware, why not use the services of a hosting company. I
> use Lunarpages (http://www.lunarpages.com), which is affordable with
> many options and has excellent support when needed.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ben
>
>
>
> Op 10/09/2013 14:08, Nicolas Pettiaux schreef:
>> Thanks. Could you contact him to ask ?
>>
>> I propose to start considering to setup a Belgian OSM site in Dutch,
>> French, English and German if we have enough people to translate in
>> German.
>>
>> Would Drupal be appropriate to setup such a multilingual site ? Do
>> anyone of us know Drupal (or any other easy and well know tool that
>> would do the job) or mediawiki ?
>>
>> What would be the hardware we need ? (CPUs, RAM, hard disk)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>> 2013/9/10 Dennis Bollyn <dennis at gyrbo.be <mailto:dennis at gyrbo.be>>
>>
>>     Nicolas,
>>
>>     It should be noted that, while osm.be <http://osm.be> isn't "in
>>     the hands" of the OSM community, openstreetmap.be
>>     <http://openstreetmap.be> is. It currently redirects to
>>     openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>, but I don't think
>>     the owner would be against setting up an actual website if the
>>     infrastructure is provided.
>>
>>     Best regards,
>>
>>     Dennis aka Gyrbo
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nicolas Pettiaux
>>     <nicolas at pettiaux.be <mailto:nicolas at pettiaux.be>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         Dear Mr Huys,
>>
>>         According to DNS.be, you own osm.be <http://osm.be> that does
>>         not seem to be used.
>>
>>         The members of the belgian OpenStreetMap (http://osm.org)
>>         community are wondering if you would agree to transfer it to
>>         us to use it as a local edition of OSM, much like
>>         http://openstreetmap.fr.
>>
>>         Much thanks in advance for your attention.
>>
>>         Best regards,
>>
>>         Nicolas Pettiaux
>>
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