[OSM-talk-be] Telenav Mapping Project

[Pieter Vander Vennet]

Hello Adrian and Telenav-team.

Welcome in Belgium, the more support, the merrier.

First of all, there is quite an active community in Belgium - I'm one of
them, as are several others. As already mentioned, the matrix-chat is an
excellent way to reach out to us and have questions answered quite fast
- please join us here: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org

Second, I was wondering where you are based - the best way to map is by
using local knowledge and by running around to see what the situation
is. Also, being here IRL will allow us to meetup or to get in touch with
the OpenKnowledge Belgium - they do great work for Open Source and Open
Data.

However, I presume that you will mostly be doing remote work, based on
official data and mapillary streetview. This too can be useful, but the
situation of Brussels is quite volatile and might change a lot. Don't be
afraid to to ask us (or a local) to check up on the situation.

At last, a lot of cyclists are using OSM in Brussels - the company I
work for even hosts  a professional cycle route planner for the city.
Please, be careful not to break it. Especially when adding 'oneway=yes',
this might force the routeplanner to consider this oneway /for cyclists
as well./ Please, if it is clear that cyclists are allowed to go both
ways, add 'oneway:bicycle=no' or, even better, add the appropriate
cycleway tags ('cycleway=lane', 'cycleway=track', ...)

Kind regards,
Pietervdvn


On 22.04.20 13:08, Adrian Budugan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am Adrian and I am part of the Mapping Team at Telenav. Our team
> started an editing project in Belgium to make OpenStreetMap more
> navigable and accurate in guidance.
>
> We will start editing in Brussels at the end of April, next week.
> There are more details here
> - https://github.com/TelenavMapping/EU_mapping_projects/issues/4.
>
> We will focus on one ways, turn restrictions, road geometry and
> quality assurance.
>
> We we'd love to hear your advice on any local mapping guidelines,
> besides the general OSM mapping
> ones (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page, http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features).
>
> Also, we appreciate any hints regarding available local or government
> data that we might be able to us or anything else that might come in
> handy.
>
> If there are any other OSM communication channels for Belgium, please
> let us know. 
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please let me/us know.
>
> We are looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>  
>
> Thank you!
>
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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Pieter Vander Vennet

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