I also found Julien Radoux' talk very interesting. We should definitely seize this opportunity to improve our data. Unfortunately I missed Julien Minet's talk.
I'm interested in participating online in such a meeting. Jo 2017-11-08 17:10 GMT+01:00 joost schouppe <joost.schou...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > We would have loved to have a landuse-mapping debate during Foss4G, it > didn't really happen though. There were two very cool presentations about > landuse mapping though, by Julien Minet and Julien Radoux. > > You can see Julien's presentation here [1]. It does a nice job of > summarizing the state of the landuse map, and shows some of the current > mapping dilemmas. > > Julien Radoux explained how OSM is useful - and sometimes fails - for his > project to map the landcover in Wallonia for the Lifewatch project [2]. > This data is available for download and could possibly be interesting for > us - not for a simple import, but at least as food for a mapping challenge > to map Wallonia landuse in detail. > > The agenda of the meeting would be: > - work on a Belgian proposal to deal with current dilemmas, so "Belgian > mapping standards". These would hopefully be followed internationally, but > we have to start somewhere. This would build especially on the thoughts of > Marc and Julien on the subject and would ideally result in a Belgian > mapping standards on the wiki. > - define usecases for the dataset Julien Radoux is providing, and make > sure that everything is OK to make that happen > - what you bring to the table > > To move forward, I would like to propose having a (virtual) meeting about > the subject. Who would be interested in participating? We could have a real > meeting (probably in Brussels or Namur) with some people participating > online. > > 1: https://cdn.rawgit.com/nobohan/OSMLanduseAnalyzer/ > 9a8b0290/presentation/2017_10_26_FOSS4G.be_OSMLanduse/index.html#/ > 2: http://www.lifewatch.be/en/lifewatch-wb-ecotope-database > > -- > Joost Schouppe > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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