Hi Nicolas, On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 21:30, Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> wrote:
> I am the one who tried that years ago because I happened to know the > person in charge. He was receptive but not convinced, and as a member > of the administration, he wanted a recognized partner (= a company or > a well recognized, legal organization) to deal with. Such a partner, > as he viewed it should have to be preferably Belgian. > As you might know, I'm the developer of Merkaartor, the third most used OSM editor and I'm a from Brussels. Do you think it might help? > > I tried to get in touch with the OSM foundation to start some > negocation, but it appeared to me quickly that the owner of the URBIS > data was not going to be easy ... and also that the added value of the > URBIS data to the OSM map that is already good for Brussels would be > limited. > Besides the actual cadastre, this came to me because I was looking at a neighborhood of Anderlecht, quite completely drawn but without any street names, which is a shame. If we could use the tiles at http://geoloc.irisnet.be/ to get the street names, it would be a big plus, IMHO. > > One point that could lead to another contact is that now OSM has > really evolved, and received more data from public authorities (eg > French cadastre, UK ordonce survey, French cities data in Rennes ...) > and the URBIS data contain the cadastre for Brussels. > Indeed, OSM has grown tremendously the past 2 years and has received both recognition and support by big players. Considering the ".be" approach of the belgian administration, having major cities like Brussels completely mapped in OSM is a no cost win for the Belgian "tech" image, I think.. Do you think you could try again to get in touch with your contact? Also, as you might know, there is a french (albeit living in England) in the OSMF, now, Emilie Laffray, who might be more receptive to Belgian issues... - Chris -
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