[OSM-talk-be] Firefighters and OSM - meeting in August

[Julien Fastré]

Hi,

Pierre Willot and I met firefighters in Namur, a couple of days ago. 
They are located in Wallonia, but I think that what happens there might 
interest the whole Belgium.


We wrote a report of this meeting, which may be found here : 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Contacts_with_local_autorities/Wallonia/firefighters-namur 
(in French)


A short summary : firefighters are planning to use OSM as one of their 
data sources. They have developped routing engines, which adapt 
themselves to the car profile (a 5-ton truck may not go through the same 
way as cars).


They would like that the map in their zone to be up to date. In a near 
future (if they use OSM) they will also encode new ways / deleted ways 
in the map: they are notified every time a street is modified, and will 
push the changes into OSM.


What do they ask ?

- They would like to be sure the map is up to date in their area. Until 
now, they need only the streets'axes. They have a lot of datasources 
(PICC from the Walloon Region, etc.). They would like to have a script 
to compare the existence of streets'axes which appears in the PICC into 
OSM, and if the street axe has the good 'highway' value.


The script should produce a result like in this square, x% of the 
streets'axis are missing or does not match a correct highway value. We 
(contributors, but also firewalls) should work on those areas.


Pierre and I proposed to organise large-public mapping parties into this 
area. They are considering participating to those events.


- We were thinking about make a proposal to the hackathon egov to write 
the compare-script there. The PICC will be available there 
(http://hackathonegovwallonia.net/quest-ce-que-lopen-data/).


- The firewall will also open some database. I already received a list 
of streets which may have spelling mistakes, from instances. I will 
communicate this list soon (there are some licensed data that I must clean)


What do you think ? Do you agree on this work ? Some volunteers ?

Julien

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Re: [OSM-talk-be] Firefighters and OSM - meeting in August

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

2013/8/28 Julien Fastré jul...@fastre.info

Dear Julien and Pierre,

Much thanks for the meeting with the firefighters and the report. Very
interesting. If these people start to use OSM, this is a real plus. Many
people will agree to support and use OSM if this can benefit the
firefighters (anyone of us can once benefit from faster firefighters !)


 What do you think ? Do you agree on this work ? Some volunteers ?

 In the school where I teach (école supérieure d'informatique, Brussels)
the students in 3rd year must do an internship of 15 weeks. They can
program (they have learned java, assembly, C++ and can do by themselves
python ou php if needed) . I must submit ideas and proposals for these
internship by Sept 5, 2013, the interships beginning only about Feb 1st,
2014. The only requests we have is that the trainees work in a «normal
working environnement» (= be provided a desk), and work under the
supervision of a professionnal computer scientist (= someone who can attest
that he can program and monitor the work of the trainee).

I would very much like to consider with any of you subjects (like the ones
proposed by Julien or others) for such internships.

If I could get the coordinates of the firefighters in Namur to propose them
our trainees, I would also love to. (even better if ths work integrate
nicely with OSM and use/develop free software)

Regards,

Nicolas

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