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Belgium, Europe
Latitude : 50.86, Longitude : 4.42
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Belgium is a Country in Europe at latitude 50° 51′ 36″ North, longitude 4° 25′ 12″ East.

     
WikiProject Belgium +/-
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OSM of Belgium as of 2008-11-14


This page contains information relating to mapping activity that is specific to Belgium. Any guides or conventions on this page can be discussed on the discussion page, feel free to comment or help (mapping your area, tagging streets or correcting this page).

Contents

Language

For accessibility reasons pages can be presented in 4 languages, but for practical reasons, the English version is the original version. For other languages choose a language at the top of the screen or choose here Nederlands or Francais

Start with OSM

Documents

Mailing list

The openstreetmap Belgium mailing list is the main communications channel for openstreetmap volunteers in Belgium.

You can read about our activities past, current and future in the archives.

If you want to get involved with openstreetmap Belgium more closely, please subscribe to the mailing list, and introduce yourself with a short message to talk-be@openstreetmap.org .

Raskas is the list administrator. Please contact him in case you experience any problems with (subscribing to) the mailing list.

Openstreetmap volunteers in Belgium

Here's an incomplete list of Openstreetmap volunteers in Belgium. If you want to be on this list, please:

  • Create an openstreetmap wiki account if you haven't got one yet, and log in. Note that an openstreetmap wiki account is_not_ the same as an openstreetmap map making account!
  • Go to your personal wiki page. You can find it by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking your name.
  • Edit your personal wiki page, adding the following line at the bottom: [[Category:Users in Belgium|replace_this_with_your_name]] .

Mapping resources

See the Mapping resources page for the list.

Conventions

See the Conventions page for discussing the mapping and tagging conventions.

Goals

If you have a goal that you are working towards or one that you would like to see get done (and are maybe willing to get the ball rolling) then add it to the list here, create a section where it can be coordinated and tracked, and a way of measuring progress.

Places

West-Vlaanderen Oost-Vlaanderen Antwerpen Limburg Vlaams-Brabant
Brussels-Capital Region Brabant Wallon Hainaut Namur Liège Luxembourg

Contacts with local autorities

Brussels

  • In Brussels Region: successful contacts have been made with the minister of the Brussels Region in charge of the transportation and its administration within the Brussels Ministery (AED) asking this administration who maintains a database of the traffic works to send it weekly to OSM. As of June 2008, this is done in the format that is used internally at AED, a wordprocessor description of the locations, roads and description of the works. As this format unfortunately does not allow for any automated treatment that could lead to an automatice adaptation of a layer on top of OSM, discussions are taking place to define another acceptable format that would allows such an automatic treatment by OSM while also an easy maintenance by AED. --npettiaux 20:53, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Another contact was made, we are waiting for the new licence in mid september 2012

Wallonia

See the specific page


This might be use to convince authorities [1]

Ideas

  • Contact the local authorities of densely mapped areas to ask if they have any procedure to inform organisations or people of changes in their jurisdiction (new streets are added, street names changed,...). They need to inform the post, emergency and other services so maybe they could inform OSM as well or provide a webpage or RSS feed with these data? Interested OSMers could then investigate these areas and map the new parts. This will be one of the major tasks when an area is mapped. This idea was taken from Mikel's mail at the Talk archives.
  • The public transportation company De Lijn offer access to bus stops online. They have been contacted, but no response has been received yet. --Gyrbo 22:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
  • DATS24 offers a complete list of all their gas stations (with GPS coördinates). I've contacted them if we may use this list. --Lithion 15:02, 6 Februari 2008 (UTC)

Mapping Parties/Events

Older discussion about activities was in the talk page.

All (new) activities should go on the Activities page. The talk page there can be used to discuss events.

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External Links

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