Luxembourg

This page contains information releated to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) activities in Luxembourg.

Join the OpenStreetMap community and help us to improve the map of Luxembourg!

How to start?

First read the Beginner's Guide and the FAQ!

Then, you can go into details on these pages:

• How to participate in this project
• How to collect the data
• How to upload GPS tracks
• How to map the real world (an alphabetical list you find here)

Projects

Feel free to contribute to these projects (or create new ones):

• Administrative boundaries
• Cities, towns and villages
• Roads (Check here, if your commune is completely mapped!)
• Public transport (bus, railway)
• Cycle Route Network
• Addresses
• Use of wheelchairs: see Wheelmap.org
• Landuse and Buildings
• Hiking trails
• Topography
• Points-Of-Interest

Status

There are two main issues:

• Errors - Look at them in KeepRight and correct them with one of the editors JOSM or Potlatch.
• Things not yet mapped - upload your GPS tracks or collect information of important Points-Of_Interest (POI) and add them with JOSM or Potlatch.

You can use Map Compare to compare the OSM map to other sources, here you find the statistics for the used tags in Luxembourg.

Events

June 2011 meetup

September 2011 Wellenstein mapping party

Mapping Party planning

Example Maps

The site Maposmatic permits to create its own indexed street map.

To create a map of a city or commune, try entering its name with its type, e.g. "Commune Steinsel".

• An example of Luxembourg City (Status: 22.12.2010) can be found here: Map of Luxembourg City - PDF(6.7MB) and the corresponding Road Index - PDF
• An example of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette (Status: 20.01.2011) can be found here: Map of Esch-sur-Alzette - PDF(1.8MB) and the corresponding Road Index - PDF
• An example of the City of Ettelbrück (Status: 21.02.2011) can be found here: Map of Ettelbrück - PDF(0.6MB) and the corresponding Road Index - PDF

An example for the use of OSM data for cyclists you'll find on the site velomap.lu, a map of Luxembourg City showing the bicycle rental stations of vel'oH! out of OSM and the bicycle parkings. Also you find the local cycle routes in Luxembourg-City and the National Cycle Routes (Pistes Cyclables), if you switch to base layer "OpenCycleMap". All these routes are taken from the OSM database.

Project Ideas

Whilst ongoing projects focus on the data input into OSM, future projects should more focus on the possible outcome of OSM!

First of all, these are useful maps. Here some thoughts (feel free to add):

• Maps for Cyclists (the OpenCycleMap is already implemented and useful , we could add a Vel'oH-Map for the bicycle rental in Luxembourg City, may be later on with live capacity display ;-)
• Maps for tourists (museums, restaurants, public transport facilities)
• Map of public transport (Ville de Luxembourg, Regional lines (RGTR), Railway lines of CFL)
• Maps for new residents (Shopping, Restaurants, Service facilities, Recycling facilities)
• Maps with the areas of the nature preserve (e.g. Portail de l'Environnement du Grand-duché de Luxembourg - Les zones protégées). We could probably import the Natura 2000 zones from the EU.
• Maps with the buildings worthy of protection (e.g. Service des sites et monuments nationaux)

For all these maps we need a almost complete list of the Points Of Interests (POI) with correct tagging! Maybe, we will open a new POI project next time...

And more ambitious:

• Improvement of navigational maps for cyclists (like OpenFietsMap and velomap.org)
• Navigational maps for car navigation (main issue: correct mapping of one-way roads and turn restrictions!)

Local User Group
Luxembourg User Group
meetings
When:	on invitation
Where:	Crossfire (map)
mailing list
mailing list - [ archive]
website
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And more or less useful:

• Map of post and telco facilities, like this.
• Hike and bridle map, like this.
• Hike and cycle map, like this.
• Map for parents (crêches, school, playgrounds), like this.
• ...

Useful Resources

The OSM mailing list for Luxembourg

• http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-lu

Please respect the copyright of these sites; if there is a doubt, make a survey.

• Administration du cadastre et de la topographie
• Administration des ponts et chaussées
• Société nationale des chemins de fer luxembourgeois (CFL)
• Ville de Luxembourg

• Geoportail
• Système d'information urbain, ville de Luxembourg
• Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, slow but hi-res pictures

Other

Many of OSM related links you find in the green box above and here. The first version of this Project Page is archived here.