Thank you Wouter for the good and interesting presentation. For an actual workshop, where people can actually become active entering data, I think it'd take 2-3 hours all by itself.
I was taking photographs of house numbers. I'm always careful not to include names or license plates on my pictures. People have asked me what I was doing before, usually mentioning an uprise of break ins as the reason. I never managed to get the police mobilised, probably because I explain people what it's all about when I'm approached. Maybe the fact that we were a group worked intimidating as well. Wouter, you had many before and after images of cities. Will there be a before and after of Haaltert as well? I'm not quite done yet, but I think the difference will be noticeable. I'm also staying away from the Trage Wegen, that I didn't map myself for the moment. Hopefully some of the participants will enter them. Cheers, Polyglot 2011/6/19 Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> > THank you very much Wouter fot this good and interesting report. > > 2011/6/19 Wouter Hamelinck <wouter.hameli...@gmail.com>: > > > After a short lunch break we went out to do some tracking. Most of us > > went on to discover the paths around Haaltert. Polyglot showed a great > > interest in house numbers which caused the local people to alert the > > police about this suspect activity. > > does this mean that the inhabitants did not like that the people > passing by write their house number ? Have I well understood ? > > > I finished with a short demonstration of Potlatch and JOSM. > > Unfortunately there was a lack of time to let the attendees experiment > > a lot with their own data. > > good to know. > > Could you give us some idea about the timing you had = what did take > how much time ? > > > For this reason I have limited my edits > > this far to the region where the others did not go. I will keep an eye > > on the evolution the coming days. > +1 > > > There was a very positive response from the people of the vzw Trage > > Wegen. They have a lot of data and have problems to make it public. > > very good. > > > They see a lot of possibilities in OSM at the very minimum to use it > > as a background layer. They intend to recreate there website, with a > > new site that should be more map-oriented and e.g. allows visitors to > > draw the trage wegen/voies lentes by themselves. > > hope fully this could lead to some other easy ways to enter data in OSM. > > A few problems: > > * A lot of their data is based on NGI-data and hence not directly usable > in OSM > > how are these data based on NGI data ? copied, inspered ? Could this > be used as one way to go to NGI and ask them for a specific limited > access to some of their data in a way that would be compatible with > OSM . > > > * They are very hesitating to redo all the work they have done this > > far. > > this is understandable. This support the idea of > 1/ open-standard to encode the data > 2/ have the data free right from the beginning ! > > > Some automation should be needed. (Will need follow-up) > > * The editors are intimidating for not-very-computer-minded people. > > According to me it would be good to have an a to z explanation with > > the minimum knowledge for specific interests. This means a full > > description from creating an OSM-account and recording tracks to the > > tags needed (in the case of trage wegen/voies lentes just > > track/path/footway/cycleway would in fact be enough, they don't care a > > lot about the rest) in one file or one page on the wiki. I think I'll > > give that a shot. > > Good idea to have very short films to sho how to do something with > OSM, specifically explaining the points that interest these people. > > > Major opportunity: they are very eager to distribute the data that > > they have. In that point of view we are completely at the same > > wavelength. > > +10 > > THanks again > > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas Pettiaux, dr. sc > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >
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