[OSM-talk-be] New user: Kreatos - wants to do import of their shops

[Marc Gemis]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Johan C <osmned at gmail.com> wrote:

> On your question Marc to contact companies: I have mixed experiences in
> the past. Some companies (like McDonalds) were not interested in
> OpenStreetMap. A situation that should change, since there are just four
> global players in geodata, OSM being one of them. Our product is not worse
> than Google places. probably better, because we're in open data. I like
> your idear, maybe we can join forces for the Benelux. We could start having
> a platform for entry of business users in OSM, showing them the advantages
> of using OSM. For instance, if we present the number of OSM app downloads
> (combined 30 million or so), businesses might gain interest. Let me know if
> you/others are interested.
>
> Cheers, Johan
>
> Op vrijdag 20 september 2013 schreef Marc Gemis (marc.gemis at gmail.com):
>
> I welcomed a new user, expecting that it was related to the Kreatos
>> hairdressers company:
>>
>> their reply:
>>
>> Dank voor de informatie.
>> Weet u een manier om (meerdere) nodes (in één keer) te uploaden naar
>> OpenStreetMap? Bij Google is dit via Google Places, met een XLS of XML
>> file.
>> Heb hiervoor gezocht op de website van OpenStreetMap, maar ik raak er
>> niet meteen wijs uit?
>> De informatie zou uit en MySQL database komen, dus een api met
>> rechtstreekse import/sync mogelijkheid hiervoor zou natuurlijk nog beter
>> zijn…
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> How do I proceed ? Show them the OSM Api v0.6 ? + policy page ? Josm
>> upload ? Ask them the file and do the upload myself + verification of
>> individual points ?
>>
>> I was also wondering this week whether we could contact companies to ask
>> them to share their shops or fuel stations. What do you think about that ?
>>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> m
>>
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Hallo Johan,

I'm wiling to send out such emails to companies in Belgium, but I'm not so
good in writing those letters. It takes me more time than I'm willing to
spend to get it right. But if someone can come up with a good template, I
can do the "import" later.

I also think that we need a page that describes how companies can easily
add their POIs. This guy  (from Kreatos) did not find a page on the wiki
with some API to do so. It would be nice to have some page that describes
the different methods (e.g. JOSM + OpenData, the osm file generation
described in this thread, the import procedure, etc. ) Furthermore the page
should list some Overpass examples on how they can retrieve their shops
again. And maybe a link to leaflet, umap.openstreetmap.fr and
switch2osm.orgso they know how to visualize their data. I provided
some of this
information in my response to him. I just thought of leaftlet/umap this
morning.

So I have some ideas, but lack to time to write the proper letters and
documentation. Maybe you can add this to the dreams for OSM ?

regards

m
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