Yay, great news, after having mapped so many routes before :-) Now if only those routes in OSM wouldn't be broken over and over again... It's one thing putting the routes on the map, but maintaining them...
Ben On Thursday 02 June 2016 19:10:09 joost schouppe wrote: > Good news everyone! We're going on a long hike! > > After contacts initiated by Jo, licencing advice by Glenn and Ben, and a > talk with Wouter and myself, the Flemish GR organization today gave us the > explicit permission to use the GPX files of their routes for improving the > GR routes mapped in OSM. > > This is only a first step, they are considering managing their route > information completely within OpenStreetMap. I hope we can support them in > this direction. There are all kinds of ways that they can help us grow our > community, and ways in which we can support them. Feel free to start > thinking out loud in this thread. > > Let's build something together which might inspire organisations worldwide > to follow their lead. > > But enough with the emotions. > > I already added them to the Contributors wiki [1] and I have uploaded the > supporting document to the wiki pages [2]. Maybe we can add a little > section to some more Belgium wiki pages too? > I made a little UMAP [3] to help with my first corrections [4]. It's a > public map, so feel free to use it (and maybe make a simple tool out of it > for tracking our progress in our cleanup?). I started adding > #groteroutepaden to my changesets [4]. If we all do that, it might help > make some cool statistics. > > The GPX files can be downloaded when you get to the page for an individual > route at the bottom of the download section [5]. If you spot an error in > the GPX or reality, you can send it to them here [6]. > > > 1: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Grote_Routepaden_.28long_dis > tance_paths_Flanders.29 2: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Licentie_GR_OSM.pdf > 3: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/nl/map/gr-vlaanderen_88642#14/50.8065/4.6619 > 4: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/39738478#map=15/50.7593/4.2846&layers > =N 5: http://www.groteroutepaden.be/route.php?itemno=68 > 6: http://www.groteroutepaden.be/nl/meld-probleem.html > > > -- > joost schouppe _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
