Hi Frederik, Just quickly, I am interested and my employer - www.bioregional.com - could be a partner on the bid. We're using OSM as part of a municipality sustainability project so this would be right up our street. I will talk to the council about getting them on board too.
I've copied my work address in - on holiday today - so please reply to that address to take it further. Kind regards, Tom On Sunday 11 May 2008 11:06:37 Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I have been approached by the city of Munich, who want to apply for > an EU grant to set up and operate a good cycle routing platform based > on OSM data. > > What they currently have is a platform that uses only their own data > which they spent (and spend) a lot of time to create and maintain. > They have basic road data and have manually added information about > the safety, suitability, and "green-ness" of routes so that you can > get a routing that matches your requirements. > > What they now intend to do is expand this to encompass the rural areas > around Munich as well, while at the same time delegating the data > maintenance to the community. Of course the whole thing will be > developed in a way that can easily be used for any other place (a > major selling point for an EU project). They also intend to create > incentives and processes for citizens improve the data. > > This will probably start with finding out (from their previous > experience) what data you need to do proper bike routing, and then > analyzing in how far this is already present in OSM, and where not, > create/improve tools for people to see where the data is missing and > fix it. Then there'll be the development of the routing platform, > perhaps based on pgrouting, and then they'll want to set up processes > for people to work with the data, e.g. also have a feedback loop into > the planning offices so that they know where bottlenecks are and so > on. > > It is not yet exactly clear what the plan is, but they are really keen > on not only taking OSM data but also working with the OSM community > and feeding everything back to OSM. Munich has recently been in the > press for ditching Windows and switching all of the administration IT > over to Linux, so they're probably the largest public entity in > Germany to have "seen the light" of free software (and free data now > as well). > > They're looking at a project duration of up to three years, and want > to request appropriate funding from the EU under the IEE programme > which, among others, has funds available for increasing the use of > cycling. > > The project application has all the right keywords to go down well > with the EU (application deadline is 20th June, but the decision will > only be made in late 2008), but there's one catch: Any successful EU > project needs to have a number of partners in different EU countries, > and that's why I am writing this post: Munich doesn't yet have enough > partners to get this through. > > Possible partners include city or regional administrations, cycle > associations, even commercial entities like publishers who have an > interest. Munich would be the "project lead", doing the deals with the > EU, but since the project isn't that specific yet, partners will > certainly have a say and their wishes be accommodated. Partners will > get their share of the money if the project is accepted, and will be > expected to co-operate in finalizing the proposal. > > As an example, a good partner would be a city administration that > wants to roll out cycle routing locally, or an administration that > wants to create cycle maps, or someone who intends to use the data and > put it on mobile navigation devices, or even a public transport entity > that intends to combine cycle routing with their traffice schedules or > something like that. > > If anyone is interested, or has an idea about whom we should contact, > please tell me. With roughly six weeks left until application > deadline, we need partners who are flexible - someone who first has to > be convinced that OSM is good would probably be too slow. > > (If it doesn't work out this year then they intend to apply next year > but I guess until then OSM will have done all the work on its own.) > > We'd be especially happy to find partners in Eastern Europe (it seems > that these make funding a project more attractive to the EU), but > anyone else outside Germany is also fine. > > Bye > Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
