Hello,
I am meeting Noël Van Herreweghe (Adviseur eGovernment,
Programmamanager Open Data) who was the official representative of
Vlanderen at OpenBelgium this Friday Maart 13 afternoon in Gent to
speak about the project I have to make an international conference
about OpenAccess on Sunday 25 octobre 2015 in Brussels (with the
support of many academic and hopefully a large amount of public money).
We could (the OSM-Be community) be present at that time as well.
If some of you (at least 4 people) tell me here that they would
support, I'll propose to Mr Van Herreweghe that we hold a SOTM-Be
conference first at the beginning of next year (February or March) to
get going and then a full blown SOTM conference in beginning of
September.
One of the thing I would very much like that we get is at least the
start of a officially supported OpenSeaMap of the Belgian coast (the
sand up to the lower tide line belongs to Flanders, the sea belongs to
federal Belgium) with a community gathered bathymetric data (read more
on http://depth.openseamap.org/)
With the help of the state (both Vlaanderen en Belgium) we could equip
some leisure boats that are at Nieuwpoort, Oostende, Blankenberghe,
Zeebrugge with the inexpensive equipment (
http://depth.openseamap.org/#introduction and
http://seesea.sourceforge.net/datalogger/index.html) and start
collecting the data, gathering them all in OSM and them producing the
very best sea maps with depth of the world. With worldeader dredgers in
Belgium (Jan De Nul and De Cloedt for example) and a full blown sea map
with crowdsourced bathylmetric data, Belgium could be proud.
For those who already own a depth measurer (un profondimètre
électronique) coupled to a GPS, adding such a cheap logging device is
simple. Uploading the data is also simple and cheap. Navigating in the
summer is a pleasure. Soon we'll have good maps of the seaground next
to our coast to show at both Belgian and world SOTM next year.
I may be dreaming, but I think that with your help we could make it
become true.
And OpenKnowledgeBelgium could be the main organizer, with some public
support. It would make a lot of sense to organize Belgian SOTM in a sea
city (either Oostend or Antwerpen), and then the main SOTM in Brussels.
What do you think ?
Best regards,
Nicolas
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