Gràcies Carlos! (i a tots els que hi heu participat) Ja ens avisaràs quan surti publicada. Salut!
2015-05-12 17:37 GMT+02:00 Jaume Figueras i Jové <[email protected]>: > He fet uns petits canvis i alguna correcció ortogràfica i d'estil. > > Salut! > > 1. Who are you and what do you do? What got you into OpenStreetMap? > > We are the OpenStreetMap's Catalan speaking community. We found a common > goal that mixed geospatial information and the promotion of the Catalan > language (an Occitano-Romance language spoken by more than 11 million > people community across several states). OSM is the answer to our goal. It > provides an open data base which allows us to add local information and in > Catalan, freely. > The Google effort to translate into Spanish all the street and way names > written in Catalan (both legal names and used names), ended in a huge mess > and a sum of protests that continue nowadays when somebody tries to find a > certain location. This fact helped to promote and be seen as an open > alternative, OpenStreetMap. > > 2. What would you say is the current state of OSM and the OSM community in > Catalunya? > > Nowadays, the way data have good quality thanks to the hard work made in > the past. There's also good data sets involving paths and mountain hiking > routes. The map is currently growing and with a high level of detail in > some areas. But there's a lot of work to do in the urban areas. > We had the pleasure to be part of the SotM 2010 which took place in Girona > five years ago. Last year, we organized our first meeting as a OSM > community in Sarrià de Ter. Since this first meeting, we started to build > and shape our community. We organized several workshops and conferences > like “OpenStreetMap for the Forest Defence Association”. A workshop which > focused on tagging forest elements, like tracks and fire hydrants and the > use of mobile applications. > We have a long path to increase our mappers count and improve > communication between us. > > 3. What are the unique challenges and pleasures of OpenStreetMap in > Catalunya? What aspects of the projects should the rest of the world be > aware of? > > We focused our work in some specific areas like Montujïc's cemetery, the > Barcelona's Zoo or Port Aventura amusement park. We are working with > Wikipedia community to link OSM data with Wikidata and viceversa. We > finished in 2 weeks of restless work the addition of the wikidata tag to > all the cities, towns, provinces and regions of Catalunya. > We also started to recover the Catalan names in Perpinyà (Northern > Catalonia, southern France). There is also pending work tagging Occitan > names in Val d'Aran. We are glad to count with apps like OsmAnd that allow > the usage of Catalan language but we miss yet a TTS in Catalan. > Some mappers of our OSM community started to focus on 3D tagging and urban > elements as bus routes, fire hydrants or opening hours. The knowledge and > the focus on local areas let us improve the data and introduce OSM as a > rich and reliable source of data. > One of our goals is to involve governments and show them the benefits of > open data. We are currently importing information from the cadastre in some > areas like Girona, a work started and coordinated by the Spanish OSM > community. A task that would be easier with the implication of the Spanish > government. We also hope that the information from the ICGC (Catalonia's > Cartographic and Geological Institute) will be added into OSM in a near > future thanks to a new transparency law. > > 4. What steps could the global OpenStreetMap community take to help > support OSM in the Catalunya specifically? > > OSM helped us by letting create a non-state community. Maybe, we expect to > increase the strength of the communication and feedback with the rest of > the OSM communities. > > 5. Last year OSM celebrated its 10th birthday, where do you think the > project will be in 10 years time, both globally and Catalunya? > > In 10 years time, the detail of information will be awesome. We hope there > will be an increase of mappers and interest in open data in our influence > area. We will be experimenting a process similar as Wikipedia. It will > become, hopefully, an essential resource that with better information will > compete with commercial alternatives. > We hope more governments and administrations will discontinue the use of > commercial maps and payment data, increasing support to open data > initiatives. Some of our city councils start to join OSM by using their > maps or by opening their data bases to OSM mappers. A fact that will > continue growing because open data is also a way to optimize and save money > and resources and to promote the creation of companies linked to the use of > open data. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-cat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-cat > -- *KONFRARE ALBERT* La Konfraria de la Vila del Pingüí de La Palma de Cervelló www.konfraria.org • @La_Konfraria <http://twitter.com/La_Konfraria>
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