The vzw/asbl Trage Wegen knows about the existence of OSM. In June 2011 there was a workshop about OSM on one of their activities. You can take a look in the archives for some discussion about it: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/2011-June/date.html
At that point they where mainly looking for a way to store their own data and publicize on their website. Of course using OSM as your internal db is not a good plan. I think they are interested in making the existing network as well known as possible and inclusion in OSM is a good tool for that. However, they are less copyright-savvy than us. Mainly they use the NGI/IGN maps on scale 1:10000 as a background for drawing. This makes most of their data derived from closed data (they don't really care too much if that is allowed) and not directly compatible with OSM. I remember that at that time they had a cooperation with RouteYou for publishing their data online. Don't ask me details, but I think this pushed them to using Google Maps as background at that time. For the mapping that Zemst is now planning, OSM is not what you need. You need to start with drawing potential paths (that might not exist anymore, hence should not be in OSM). Then, look on the ground what still exists and distinguish according to accessibility. So you need some metadata that doesn't really fit into OSM and also are stuck with no longer existing paths. We really don't want all their drafts in the db. That's something they should do on their own dataset (which can use OSM as a background or even as a base of course). What would be interesting for all, in my opinion, is making sure that the path from the finished map are actually present in OSM. The motivation for them is simply that putting the paths on a widely used map is a very good way of promoting them. However, you need a simple straightforward way that is accessible for the elderly and not only for the script wizards on this list. And this is the point where you usually get stuck. wouter On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Glenn Plas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It's seems that our municipality is asking for some public mapping aid of > some sort. Please check this page, I would love to bring OpenStreetMaps to > their attention, I have a feeling that they aren't even aware of it's > existence looking at the sort of help they ask for. > > http://zemst.be/nl/press/319/inventarisatie-trage-wegen.html > > references are made to check this site although no hyperlinks in the > statement, here it is : http://www.tragewegen.be/ > > The latter site is extremely slow at the moment. I've noticed some > screenshots of OSM maps are being used there. Do you think we > can/should/want to be a part of this as a community? > > If so, I believe we should join efforts then and send some well written > inviting mail to bring OSM to their attention? It would probably save a > lot of work for lots of people involved. Does anyone have some 'canned' > response to these types of initiatives? > > What always bothers me about most of these initiatives is that they usually > 'give up' the data to Google for free so they in turn can start charging for > it (commercially). All the while OSM would be such a perfect fit as a tool > by itself. > > Please share your ideas, > > Glenn > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > -- "Wie niet in zichzelf gelooft, komt nergens." - Thor Heyerdahl _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
