thanks a lot for contacting Belga. Good to hear we now have a contact there. Hopefully that person from the university was at the Mapathon and learned that we do not use G-stuff. :-)
m On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:14 PM, joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > So I contacted Belga. The report was only used by Metro and Zondag. They > didn't think anyone else would pick up on it, and did not see any use in > correcting it in their own database. I did get a personal contact at Belga > we can call next time we do something, who promised to listen carefully that > time. And they will also contact Metro to ask and change their article a bit > (remove the Google Earth mention). I don't think it's a good idea to share > the e-mail here, but I can send it to anyone who requests it. > > Apparently, they contacted someone from the university who said something > along the lines of "tracing on satellite pictures form the same sources > available in Google Earth". And they went from there. So yes, a little > press-training might be in order to avoid things like that. > > Joost > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
