[OSM-talk-be] TEC & Open Data: let's start !

[André Pirard]

On 2014-06-13 22:51, Jo wrote :
>
> Hi Andre,
>
> I'm almost done converting the village names to proper capitalisation,
> including accents. I also have a system set up to calculate route_ref.
> It's slower than I would like, but it works. (Reading the data into
> postGIS that is). Most of the work involved is stuff I had already
> done for the data of De Lijn. The data from TEC comes in a different
> format and I'm looking for a more efficient way to process it.
> Inserting line by line is not the way to go.
>
> I couldn't find your file, so I had to start from scratch.
>
I explained the reason why. I did not want taggers to use it and I asked
questions about the TEC problems to be discussed among involved persons
who would have had access to the file. As I was scolded before for
repeating problem reports, I did not ask a third time.
>
> Just a few more days and I'll release it.
>
> On Jun 13, 2014 10:37 PM, "André Pirard" <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com
> <mailto:A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I announced that I had made an OSM file from which it is very easy
>     to copy with JOSM (Edit>Merge Selection) TEC bus stops to the OSM
>     map.  I said that there were problems to discuss, principally
>
>       * that the data contains no bus line numbers
>       * that municipality names are in uppercase and with spelling
>         errors (no accents)
>
>     Nobody replied.
>     So that I finally put this file aside so that nobody would start
>     tagging incomplete data.
>
>     Julien published
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Mapping_resources/TEC
>     I discovered my name in it, saying that I made an OSM file. Just that.
>     As Julien says that he does not find interesting to hear problems
>     reports repeated, I continued waiting.
>
>     Then Jo got in contact with me and told me that he had made the
>     same file as mine, but without lines.
>     Then I found that in the above page, my name had been replaced
>     with Polyglot without warning.
>
>     Clearly, TEC is no longer my job.
>     It is now Jo's job and I was glad to stop waiting.
>
>     Jo wrote "I'm planning to convert the village names to normal
>     capitalisation".
>     Uppercasing is easy, but not correcting the spelling mistakes.
>     I can try to do that. Just ask
>
>     André.
>
>
>     PS: I reported to SPW that the Géocatalogue
>     <http://geoportail.wallonie.be/en/home/geocatalogue.html?activeMDTypeTab=&search-theme=all&search-subtheme=all&search-text=&search-tri=jcr%3Atitle&search-display=small>
>     (listing TEC's data) is perfectly empty; they forwarded the info.
>     It happens to those who selected another language than French (in
>     hope to see it round the corner).
>

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