[OSM-talk-be] MissingMaps National

[Marc Gemis]

thanks a lot for contacting Belga. Good to hear we now have a contact there.
Hopefully that person from the university was at the Mapathon and
learned that we do not use G-stuff. :-)

m

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:14 PM, joost schouppe
<joost.schouppe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I contacted Belga. The report was only used by Metro and Zondag. They
> didn't think anyone else would pick up on it, and did not see any use in
> correcting it in their own database. I did get a personal contact at Belga
> we can call next time we do something, who promised to listen carefully that
> time. And they will also contact Metro to ask and change their article a bit
> (remove the Google Earth mention). I don't think it's a good idea to share
> the e-mail here, but I can send it to anyone who requests it.
>
> Apparently, they contacted someone from the university who said something
> along the lines of "tracing on satellite pictures form the same sources
> available in Google Earth". And they went from there. So yes, a little
> press-training might be in order to avoid things like that.
>
> Joost
>
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