Let’s build a community with everybody interested in OpenStreetMap! We’ll be coming to get together again in the city of Antwerp and talk about OpenStreetMap and other interesting stuff with some beers or other beverages. Everybody is welcome, whether you’ve been mapping for ten years, or you just encountered OpenStreetMap somewhere and you want to know more.
The story begins in February 2017 at FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/) in Brussels; a cheerful Albanian delegation arrives on the Brussels ground. Among these Albanians, Anisa Kuci and Redon Skikuli, members of OSM Albania; since they are on Belgian soil, they decide to contact OSM Belgium and yaaay, some of us also attend the FOSDEM.
Jonathan Beliën
We can work on a task from http://tasks.hotosm.org. Or we can do some local mapping. Please write under reactions (in Meetup page) what is your preference. From 2-4th of June I’ll go to SotM-FR in Avignon to present a workshop about mapping Public Transport. So I’ll probably have a presentation ready about that topic.
Polyglot
Who are you? I’m half German half Polish. I’m living in Bavaria in Germany. I’m a car navigation professional responsible for innovation management. Previously I worked with navigation maps and city modelling. Years before I developed specifications for 3D city models for the German government in Hamburg. Then I started to work for one of the biggest car navigation companies.
escada
Can you introduce yourself? The last years, my main occupation was OpenstreetMap. I was also one of the co-founders of OpenStreetMap Belgium. I am a self-employed and freelance software developer, usually related to routeplanning. http://www.itinero.tech/ http://www.anyways.eu/ Furthermore, we love to travel, our daily amusement is often a visit to a pub with some friends or having a nice dinner at a restaurant.
escada
The 300 participants of the National Mapathon managed to get a lot of work done. Those tasks need to be reviewed and either corrected and validated. Or they should be rejected and feedback sent to the mappers, so they can learn from the experience. Don’t worry, if you don’t have any mapping experience, everything will be explained from the ground up and there are always projects on tasks.
Polyglot
NGOs working in the South need decent maps in order to reach people who need help. However, in many places the map is not yet complete. That’s why we need your help! We teach volunteers like you how to trace satellite imagery into OpenStreetMap, a free and open map of the entire world.
Let’s build a community with everybody interested in OpenStreetMap! The target audience is everybody! From hearing the word OpenStreetMap a few seconds ago to the total expert in no time. There will be someone you can discuss and have a drink with we’re an interational community speaking English, Dutch, French so come join us!
The best way to collect data for OpenStreetMap is by surveying an area. With surveying, we mean walking or driving around and taking notes of the features or objects you encounter. For newcomers it might be difficult to start with their first survey. There are as many methods as there are mappers, but it might help to get started when you have read at least one workflow.
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For this OSGeoDevEvening we will explain how to extend QGis with your own plugins. Following a step-by-step process, we will create our own extension. We will also dedicate some time to the upcoming QGis 3 releasing, due by the end of the summer. We’ll highlight some of the new features waiting on your input and testing!