Hi Marc, I totally agree!
Are you going to help out at Random Hacks of Kindness yourself or is this only an idea for us to implement? Would be great to collaborate :) Kind regards, Pieter On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Marc Gemis <marc.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pieter, > > My "killer" application to show them would be a single website that > combines the following functionality: > > a) walking routes (both knooppunten and local routes) with distance as > openwandelkaart.nl > b) background of hikebikemap.de ( I love the hill shading) (and it's > faster than openwandelkaart) > c) route creation as on wandelknooppunt.be (not OSM based) > d) tourist information > d1) hotels, pubs, restaurants, attractions with links to their websites > & opening hours > (see openlinkmap.org and > http://www.netzwolf.info/kartografie/osm/time_domain/map_opening) > d2) the direct link to mijnlijn for busses (see openlinkmap.org) > d3) historic buildings, etc as in > http://geschichtskarten.openstreetmap.de/historische_objekte/ with > images, wikipedia links (also in openlinkmap), protected monuments, etc. > d4) picnic sites, benches, sidewalks, road quality, other information > important to walking/hiking > > I would not focus on getting only their data into OSM, (nor De Lijn, nor > Onroerend Erfgoed), but show an app that combines all this data with the > data we have today. It's the combination of all this data that makes OSM > great, not the individual pieces that each institute has themselves. > > just my .5 cent > > m. > > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be> wrote: > >> On 05/10/2013 02:03 PM, Ben Abelshausen wrote: >> >>> Importing this data into OSM is never going to work I think, but just >>> like the AGIV data, it can be used to aid mapping. This way we can get the >>> data into OSM to a quality level even exceeding the original data. >>> Something I'm sure data providers are interested in. >>> >> >> Indeed, It would be a disaster importing AGIV data as-is , by itself its >> very valuable but after like housenumbering my town here I can positively >> confirm that it's not up to date with buildings newer than like 1/2 years >> and that it still contains plenty of errors (buildings too little/ too much >> / wrong housenumbers / incomplete ones (100 vs 100/1 vs 100/a etc). >> >> But to aid osm mapping and verifying, or doublechecking data, it sure >> helps, but imports will never be as well done as a human being would >> scrutinise the data more thoroughly. >> >> Glenn >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Talk-be mailing list >> Talk-be@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-be<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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