> but I think the NGI won't even consider doing that. In the import It's certainly worth it to ask and explore this, before we turn all our attention to CLC2000.
I also believe we should explore the Freedom of Information acts more. Especially the Federal Decree has some interesting sections on our being able to use official documentation released under FOI. But, being Dutch, if someone from Belgium could delve into this, that would be better, I think. One less barrier to scare the officials. :) > section they describe how to do it. > Do you all think it is worth it? I have the entire CLC2000 dataset on my server, and had a quick look. The answer is, obviously: "yes and no". Con: The data is old, some things will simply be outdated. Pro: Some objects, like residential landuse areas, look pretty good. All the typically belgian 'linten' are very recognisable. Con: Other objects, like agricultural areas, are pretty large, and would certainly not form a single continuous area IRL. This would need extra checking after the import. Pro: landuse mapping in Belgium, outside where there is yahoo hires coverage and people have spent time tracing, is pretty lacking. Taking the specific things from CLC2000 that would work nicely would be a good step forward. Pro: the way the French have setup the Corine import is that you can exclude areas which are overlapping with existing OSM areas. You can then, later on, import those areas missed due to overlap, by hand, from a website. Ben said we could even delete existing OSM areas before the import starts, if we know the existing mapping is inaccurate. If you guys want, I could set up a map overlay with the raw CLC2000 data, so you can check it out? > I have got some more plans, but I promise I want do any bulk uploads > without consulting you ;-) Do you have any other potential datasets in mind? -- Lennard _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
