[OSM-talk-be] Call for Venues Open: State of the Map 2016

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

Hello,

I am meeting Noël Van Herreweghe (Adviseur eGovernment, 
Programmamanager Open Data) who was the official representative of 
Vlanderen at OpenBelgium this Friday Maart 13 afternoon in Gent to 
speak about the project I have to make an international conference 
about OpenAccess on Sunday 25 octobre 2015 in Brussels (with the 
support of many academic and hopefully a large amount of public money).

We could (the OSM-Be community) be present at that time as well.

If some of you (at least 4 people) tell me here that they would 
support, I'll propose to Mr Van Herreweghe that we hold a SOTM-Be 
conference first at the beginning of next year (February or March) to 
get going and then a full blown SOTM conference in beginning of 
September.

One of the thing I would very much like that we get is at least the 
start of a officially supported OpenSeaMap of the Belgian coast (the 
sand up to the lower tide line belongs to Flanders, the sea belongs to 
federal Belgium) with a community gathered bathymetric data (read more 
on http://depth.openseamap.org/)

With the help of the state (both Vlaanderen en Belgium) we could equip 
some leisure boats that are at Nieuwpoort, Oostende, Blankenberghe, 
Zeebrugge with the inexpensive equipment ( 
http://depth.openseamap.org/#introduction and 
http://seesea.sourceforge.net/datalogger/index.html) and start 
collecting the data, gathering them all in OSM and them producing the 
very best sea maps with depth of the world. With worldeader dredgers in 
Belgium (Jan De Nul and De Cloedt for example) and a full blown sea map 
with crowdsourced bathylmetric data, Belgium could be proud.

For those who already own a depth measurer (un profondimètre 
électronique) coupled to a GPS, adding such a cheap logging device is 
simple. Uploading the data is also simple and cheap. Navigating in the 
summer is a pleasure. Soon we'll have good maps of the seaground next 
to our coast to show at both Belgian and world SOTM next year.

I may be dreaming, but I think that with your help we could make it 
become true.

And OpenKnowledgeBelgium could be the main organizer, with some public 
support. It would make a lot of sense to organize Belgian SOTM in a sea 
city (either Oostend or Antwerpen), and then the main SOTM in Brussels.

What do you think ?

Best regards,

Nicolas 

 
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