On 2015-09-06 23:54, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote : > Dear > > In March, I have met the directeur général adjoint of IGN during a > meeting about GIS in Belgium where I represented the OSM.BE team (Ben > had been invited too and I have coordinated with him) and he let me > know that he would be willing to share data with us. > > We could prepare to go and meet officially (as the OSM-be > representatives) IGN to discussi licences, compatibility and mutual help. > > Who is interested ? The geographic sites conditions usually limit the vision of what is conceivable to do with their maps to "you can print a map" (waste paper, what about copying the picture to a smartphone/GSM instead?). But we have learned after 5 years of "we cannot copy (yet)" that what the SPW conditions do not say is that "what OSM is doing is not copying". Hence, it would be *very interesting* indeed to *at least* know the corresponding opinion of IGN/NGI about what we are doing. And even more that they are willing to share data as Minister Henry wad told to have asked the SPW to do. And, btw, to ask the Minister if the boundary data is the property of IGN/NGI or theirs (btw, should I explain that if M. Henry is no longer the right minister, his successor should be asked after crossing one's fingers). A typical case is this map <http://www.ngi.be/testbed/wms/top10r_l08_fr?FORMAT=image/png&VERSION=1.1.1&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&LAYERS=0&STYLES=&SRS=EPSG:3857&WIDTH=1000&HEIGHT=512&BBOX=688544.7507928,6539340.6438534,690990.7356980,6540563.6363060> that can be obtained from here <http://www.ngi.be/testbed/pages> (tag Visualisez) (or otherwise). What can exactly be done with it, especially the +++ borderlines beside not printing it? Compare it with others, help understanding others, correcting others, ... or, if, like the SPW secret, "être copiées et reproduites de manière excessive" is not what OSM is doing? I'd like to know that, as a contributor of 5000 km of very precisely mapped Walloon borders, who would rectify other borders 10, 25, 50 m off their location, I started with a 250m shift in Banneux.
The IGN/NGI is a most important source of information indeed. Thanks. Keep us informed. Cheers André. > > Best regards, > > Nicolas > > Le dim 6 sep 2015 à 21:45, André Pirard <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com> a > écrit : >> Hi, >> >> In their now official Cartesius project >> <http://www.cartesius.be/CartesiusPortal/>, IGN/NGI/NGI/NGI et al. >> too are now using OpenStreetMap >> <http://www.cartesius.be/arcgis/home/webmap/viewer.html?> (click >> Basemap). >> >> It would have been surprising that NGI did not display the OSM © >> notice ;-) >> Please notice that they reproduce without a frown the OSM mapping of >> the so-called © NGI boundaries that we "cannot copy yet" (belonging >> to the various successive governments (French and Belgian mainly)) ! >> >> Cheers , >> >> André. >> >>
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