This is a project I'm involved with. Promote living and working in Brussels for 'Vlamingen'.
I take no sides in the debate ;-) http://brussel.opkaart.be/ that is VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschaps Commisie) They have OSM supporters in their circles who are eager to work with big data in the near and far future. Glenn On 01-05-15 10:57, Pierre Parmentier wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for all the interesting links. It will help. > > May be were my questions not formulated correctly. What I mean is to > find additional examples of the use a commune/gemeente can _do_ with OSM > database. > > I had some ideas: inventory of all schools, AED, health centres, trees > along the streets, benches, small monuments and statues, public parks, > routes of promenade. > > I have met two échevins/schepen of my municipality (public works + > plantations + propreté/netheid and IT + Energie + Logement/Woning). They > are curious. What can I propose to them as real life examples made by > other municipalities? Things that will really help them. > > Pierre P. > > > > > > > > 2015-04-30 16:26 GMT+02:00 André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com > <mailto:a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com>>: > > On 2015-04-30 11:34, Marc Gemis wrote : >> not in Belgium, but Troisdorf, Germany uses it as well >> : http://stadtplan.troisdorf.de/ >> >> This (using OSM) is what Westtour (tourism office) & the GIS >> responsible for West-Vlaanderen want to accomplish. >> I can send the email address of the latter in a private mail if >> you wish. > Nice! > Troisdorf uses Mapbender which is using layers much in the same but > more sophisticated way I mention below ... > Read on ... >> regards >> >> m >> >> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Pierre Parmentier >> <pierrecparment...@gmail.com <mailto:pierrecparment...@gmail.com>> >> wrote: >> >> Two questions: >> >> 1. Does anybody have an experience of the use of OSM by a >> commune/gemeente? >> 2. Are there synthetic presentations of OSM specifically >> dedicated to responsible persons at a >> communal/gemeentelijk level? >> >> I am aware of the experiences in Brest and around. Anything >> similar for Belgium? >> >> Ben, two years ago we were working on a small flyer. Was it >> finally translated in French? Don't remember ... >> >> Pierre P. >> > > Hi, > > You can find some usage of OSM related to communes here > > <https://www.google.be/search?&q=site%3Abe+commune+%28OpenStreetMap%20OR%20OSM%29> > > and there > > <https://www.google.be/search?&q=site%3Abe+gemeente+%28OpenStreetMap+OR+OSM%29>. > For example, first that catches my eye and that I open: Ma commune > sans #TTIP / TAFTA ? > <http://www.ellezelles.ecolo.be/?Ma-commune-sans-TTIP-TAFTA> by œucolo. > > > Those who got municipalities interested in OSM are lucky fellows (1). > > Municipalities however are an answer to the former question > "Subject: Idea?" to make some money. > I recall my page > <http://www.papou.byethost9.com/maps/OpenLayers.html> showing how to > easily make not only one POI map but also a mix of several sources. > We could propose municipalities and other establishments to host > their POIs on our own server. > Unlike in my examples, the details of the POIs would be in the OSM > database itself. > The customers would send by e-mail updates in the form of OSM tags > to validate & paste right into JOSM: > >> building=house ... >> shop=... or other feature >> name=... >> addr:city=<municipality> >> addr:place=<part-municipality> >> addr:street=... >> addr:housenumber=... >> addr:postcode=... >> contact:email=e-mail_address >> contact:fax=+32-n-<fax> >> contact:phone=+32-n-<phone> >> contact:website=http://... >> image=<image> >> wikipedia=<wikipedia> > > The POI map data would be a simple list of OSM objects IDs. > A POI cache would probably be needed for performance. > > Cheers > > André. > > > (1) > I wrote before that every time I proposed OSM tagging (to them or > other organizations), either I got no reply or they picked my idea > and they did it with Googlemaps. > Lately, I met our bourgmestre and I mentioned the OSM boundary one > of of our "part-municipalities". Firstly, I was amazed how well he > knows it despite it belongs to history. But secondly I was > disappointed he replied that drawing it is totally uninteresting. I > had no time to convince the busy man about OSM and the many of you. > I also proposed to map municipality related car sharing stops (where > sort of subscribed hitch hikers stop subscribed cars) and make a POI > map. Not only made they the map with Google but also they > disregarded adding the stops to OSM (and moreover I couldn't have > OSM tell me the tags to use for that particular feature). > Etc. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > -- "Everything is going to be 200 OK." _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
