Hi,
Time to register for one of the open highlights of Belgium. There's a
Valentine promotion going on right now :)
Contact board at osm.be if you can't afford the ticket.
There will also be a community day on Sunday with lots of OSM stuff; that
will be free.
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That’s indeed the (fun) challenge ☺
Luckily, there are already some good sources available. Two I’ve used:
· for some of the municipalities, Wikipedia offers a lot of information,
see e.g. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_rues_de_Schaerbeek
· http://www.irismonument.be often h
Yes, that's the big question mark for the event !
We'll hope to attract people with such knowledge and/or hope to find the
information online somehow !
That's one of the reason we decided not to edit OpenStreetMap directly during
the event !
Jonathan Beliën
Mar 11 févr 2020, à 12:18, Jo a écr
I think the hardest part is figuring out what the name stands for if it is
a former maire of the city or commune. Especially if we only have an
initial for the first name. Sometimes it is possible to find this
information on the internet, often it isn't.
Do we have a way to look into the city's ar
> Given this workflow, I wonder whether we can drop the focus on Wikipedia (to
> save work/time): 1) If there is an existing Wikipedia page, it will probably
> already be linked to the corresponding Wikidata item. 2) If we put a Wikidata
> tag on a street in OSM, I personally see no reason to ad
Hi Jonathan,
Workflow sounds good!
If I may, a few remarks:
· Given this workflow, I wonder whether we can drop the focus on
Wikipedia (to save work/time): 1) If there is an existing Wikipedia page, it
will probably already be linked to the corresponding Wikidata item. 2) If we
put a Wik
Hello everyone,
I just find out about this discussion and realize we are currently doing the
work twice !
The initial (and main) goal of the project is indeed to link streets in
Brussels from OpenStreetMap with the wikidata "page" of the person present in
the streetname !
BUT we got in contac
OK, in that case, we'll have to go back to the original source, Urbis if we
want to add coordinates for the streets to Wikidata.
I always thought that if I'm the one who adds features to OSM myself, or if
I'm the one who places them at their correct spot, using aerial imagery
that the data was min
