Hi,
Pierre Willot and I met firefighters in Namur, a couple of days ago.
They are located in Wallonia, but I think that what happens there might
interest the whole Belgium.
We wrote a report of this meeting, which may be found here :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Contacts_with_local_autorities/Wallonia/firefighters-namur
(in French)
A short summary : firefighters are planning to use OSM as one of their
data sources. They have developped routing engines, which adapt
themselves to the car profile (a 5-ton truck may not go through the same
way as cars).
They would like that the map in their zone to be up to date. In a near
future (if they use OSM) they will also encode new ways / deleted ways
in the map: they are notified every time a street is modified, and will
push the changes into OSM.
What do they ask ?
- They would like to be sure the map is up to date in their area. Until
now, they need only the streets'axes. They have a lot of datasources
(PICC from the Walloon Region, etc.). They would like to have a script
to compare the existence of streets'axes which appears in the PICC into
OSM, and if the street axe has the good 'highway' value.
The script should produce a result like "in this square, x% of the
streets'axis are missing or does not match a correct highway value". We
(contributors, but also firewalls) should work on those areas.
Pierre and I proposed to organise large-public mapping parties into this
area. They are considering participating to those events.
- We were thinking about make a proposal to the hackathon egov to write
the compare-script there. The PICC will be available there
(http://hackathonegovwallonia.net/quest-ce-que-lopen-data/).
- The firewall will also open some database. I already received a list
of streets which may have spelling mistakes, from instances. I will
communicate this list soon (there are some licensed data that I must clean)
What do you think ? Do you agree on this work ? Some volunteers ?
Julien
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