[OSM-talk-be] GR Flanders data available for mapping!

[Jakka]

Op 2/06/2016 om 19:10 schreef joost schouppe:
> Good news everyone! We're going on a long hike!
>
> After contacts initiated by Jo, licencing advice by Glenn and Ben, and a
> talk with Wouter and myself, the Flemish GR organization today gave us
> the explicit permission to use the GPX files of their routes for
> improving the GR routes mapped in OSM.
>
> This is only a first step, they are considering managing their route
> information completely within OpenStreetMap. I hope we can support them
> in this direction. There are all kinds of ways that they can help us
> grow our community, and ways in which we can support them. Feel free to
> start thinking out loud in this thread.
>
> Let's build something together which might inspire organisations
> worldwide to follow their lead.
>
> But enough with the emotions.
>
> I already added them to the Contributors wiki [1] and I have uploaded
> the supporting document to the wiki pages [2]. Maybe we can add a little
> section to some more Belgium wiki pages too?
> I made a little UMAP [3] to help with my first corrections [4]. It's a
> public map, so feel free to use it (and maybe make a simple tool out of
> it for tracking our progress in our cleanup?). I started adding
> #groteroutepaden to my changesets [4]. If we all do that, it might help
> make some cool statistics.
>
> The GPX files can be downloaded when you get to the page for an
> individual route at the bottom of the download section [5]. If you spot
> an error in the GPX or reality, you can send it to them here [6].
>
>
> 1:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Grote_Routepaden_.28long_distance_paths_Flanders.29
> 2: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Licentie_GR_OSM.pdf
> 3: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/nl/map/gr-vlaanderen_88642#14/50.8065/4.6619
> 4:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39738478#map=15/50.7593/4.2846&layers=N
> 5: http://www.groteroutepaden.be/route.php?itemno=68
> 6: http://www.groteroutepaden.be/nl/meld-probleem.html
>
>
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> joost schouppe
>
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Great news indeed. Congratulations Jo, Glenn, Ben, Joost