Mapper of the Month: Kevin Kenny (USA)

Who are you ?

Hi, I"m Kevin Kenny, OSM user ‘ke9tv’.

I’m a computer engineer by trade, living and working in Niskayuna, New York, USA, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175479, west of the state capital of Albany. My OSM user ID is an Amateur Radio call sign, which is something that I often use as a user name because it’s generally unique. I’m not terribly active on radio any more, although I keep my license up. My most time-consuming hobbies are music, open-source software development, and hiking. It’s the last that drew me back into OpenStreetMap, since some of my favourite places have atrocious maps. (Surprisingly, New York State has some remote, and hence badly mapped, wilderness.)

National Missing Maps Mapathon 2019 (LLN, Liège)

Help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their rescue

It’s time for the 4th National Mapathon which will take place on Wednesday March 27th, Thursday March 28th and Saturday March 30th. It is organized by the National Committee for Geography, in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Belgium and MSF Belgium. Several universities in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia open their doors for a large collective mapping event. Come contribute - do not miss this opportunity and help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their work in crisis areas.

National Missing Maps Mapathon 2019 (Brussels, Namur, Ghent, Liège)

Help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their rescue

It’s time for the 4th National Mapathon which will take place on Wednesday March 27th, Thursday March 28th and Saturday March 30th. It is organized by the National Committee for Geography, in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Belgium and MSF Belgium. Several universities in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia open their doors for a large collective mapping event. Come contribute - do not miss this opportunity and help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their work in crisis areas.

National Missing Maps Mapathon 2019 (Brussels, LLN, Leuven, Mons)

Help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their rescue

It’s time for the 4th National Mapathon which will take place on Wednesday March 27th, Thursday March 28th and Saturday March 30th. It is organized by the National Committee for Geography, in collaboration with OpenStreetMap Belgium and MSF Belgium. Several universities in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia open their doors for a large collective mapping event. Come contribute - do not miss this opportunity and help Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross to facilitate their work in crisis areas.

How to create a simple map (with a marker) based on OpenStreetMap

Introduction

There are 2 most common open-source JavaScript libraries used to display a map : Leaflet and OpenLayers.

Build a simple map using Leaflet

This tutorial is based on Leaflet Quick Start Guide and uses version 1.4.0 of the library. I suggest you check if there is a more up-to-date version before proceeding.

How to see the map

You can check the map here : https://www.openstreetmap.org/ !

How to use free OpenStreetMap Belgium baselayer

It is quite easy and it’s completely free!
We just ask you to use the required credits/attributions : OpenStreetMap contributors for the data and SPRL GEO-6 BVBA for the tiles hosting.

You can have a look at our baselayer here : https://tile.openstreetmap.be/

Here are 2 examples using the most common open-source JavaScript libraries (Leaflet and OpenLayers).
If you’re not familiar to those libraries, have a look at “How to create a simple map (with a marker) based on OpenStreetMap ?”.

Mapper of the Month: Benoît Fournier (France)

Who are you?

I’m called Benoît Fournier, I live in France together with my family. I work in Paris or the region around it.

How and when did you discover OpenStreetMap?

I’ve discovered OpenStreetMap at the end of 2014: I needed an application on my mobile phone with offline, predownloaded maps. I wanted to have maps without having to use mobile data for cycle and hiking trajects. My search took me to OsmAnd and the OpenStreetMap-project. Slowly but surely, I made my first steps and discovered the elements of the OSM-universe: the data, the editors, the wiki, some map notes, my first message to other contributors, … soon followed by my first contributions, of which a few a bit reckless and contianed the necessary errors!

Open Belgium 2019

Let’s make Belgian knowledge open, usable, used, useful

Open Belgium is an annual Open Knowledge and Open Data conference gathering industry, research, government and citizen stakeholders. In other words, anyone who is interested in Open Knowledge and Open Data is more than welcome!

We aim to bring you up to speed with the latest trends, innovations and best practices by sharing experiences among this wide range of participants. Get inspired by high-level keynote speakers, engaging panel discussions, hands-on and minds-on workshops as well as the interactive exhibition space where a multitude of partners present innovative products, services and research.

The Power of Open in Action: Community Day Open Knowledge Belgium

Open knowledge and open data are very powerful, essential forces for change. The good thing is… you as a citizen can contribute to open projects and contribute to a world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.

As a satellite event of the yearly Open Belgium conference (on Monday 4 March in Brussels), Open Knowledge Belgium is organising a community day on Saturday 2 March with talks and workshops on various open topics. This event aims to gather the community behind different open initiatives and is absolutely open to everyone who wants to learn more about open knowledge & open data in general.