Help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their rescue After a succesful event last year, a new national Mapathon will take place on Saturday, March 25th, which is organized by the National Committee for Geography, in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Belgium. Several universities in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia open their doors a whole day for a large collective mapping event.
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!
When and how did you discover OpenStreetMap? I came across the Osm website in 2007, but I didn’t yet have a GPS and there was only landsat imagery, if I remember correctly. Near the end of 2008 I found a Garmin on sale, and remembered the osm site. After just a few gps tracks I was hooked, there was so much to improve in my home town, and in the meantime they had acquired the right to use Yahoo imagery, which was already usable, even if it had arbitrary distortions.
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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!
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.
Who are you? I am Steve All. In OSM I am stevea and in our wiki I am Stevea. I grew up in San Diego and live in Santa Cruz, California USA since age 17, coming here to attend the University of California and fell in love with the place: starting a business, buying a house, raising a son through the local schools and my alma mater, now he is getting his PhD.
Marc Gemis
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!
Last Sunday 12 December, we had our first real OSM Belgium hackday! The plan was mainly to work on the GRB import. A dozen volunteers made it to Brussels and participated. In Flanders, 1944 of our contributors have already mapped 1.4 million buildings. Most of that by hand, from aerial imagery.
Joost Schouppe
Ben Abelshausen and Glenn Plas would like to invite you to the OpenStreetMap Hackday! The most important thing we will work on is the preparation of the GRB buildings import. We’ll work on the final technical challenges, conceptual choices and documenting the process to get Data Working Group approval. We propose Sunday, December 11th.
This is a translation of Sarah’s text in German. Any misrepresentation is our fault. Who are you? My name is Sarah, I am from Germany and live in Dresden. I studied computer sciences and work fulltime as software developer for a small local company. In OSM I am known as lonvia, which is a word play with the Latin form of ’long journey'.
Marc Gemis