WikiProject Belgium/Archives
This page is intended to index content in the OpenStreetMap Belgium that is only useful from a historical perspective.
Projects
These are finished or defunct projects that are not being worked on anymore.
Base d'adresses nationales belges ouverte (BANBO)
Créer une base nationale belge et ouverte de toutes les adresses
BE Quarterly projects
The BE Quarterly Projects was an atempt to do a series of projects for Belgium mappers, announced every quarter on the talk-be mailing list, started in January 2016.
GPS Devices
Start with OSM
Links that are not relevant for new mappers anymore, because they are about tools that aren't used much anymore, or because their content is wildely outdated.
- Potlatch editor Nederlandstalig / Francophone / Deutschsprachig / English
- Potlatch 2 editor English
- Handboek (NL) Handboek Openstreetmap
- FAQ Nederlandstalig / Francophone / Deutschsprachig / English
Goals
Places
| Regions | Linguistic communities | Main cities and towns by province | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders (Vlaanderen) | Dutch community | West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen) | East Flanders (Oost-Vlaanderen) | Anvers (Antwerpen) | Limburg | Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant) |
| Brussels Capital | Brussels Capital | |||||
| French community | ||||||
| Wallonia (Wallonie) | Walloon Brabant (Brabant wallon) | Hainaut | Namur | Liège | Luxembourg | |
| German community | — | — | — | — | ||
Referencing the Belgian Official Journal - Moniteur - Staatsblad
The Belgian Official Journal (moniteur, staatsblad) contains legal texts and their modifications. These texts are never changed after publication. The Consolidated Legislation (French, Dutch) contains the same legal documents, but updated with their modifications. They are not the official texts, but they are of course meant to say the same and they are much more humanly understandable because they say it in a single piece.
The stable, canonical form of an URL of a consolidated document is as follows:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=fr&la=F&table_name=loi&cn=1994021730
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/change_lg.pl?language=nl&la=N&table_name=wet&cn=1994021730
where: cn=yyyymmddnn are the enactment date and a sequence number within.
To find cn, simply make a search of the document you want. In the old days, you used to see the URL to copy&paste in the navigation bar. But progress now consists of making things more difficult. But we resist with a bit of thinking ;-)
Simply use an action that will make the program recurse (call itself) by URL such as clicking "Dutch version" and back to "French version" or conversely. You will find cn in the link or in the navigation bar if you click the link.
Refined URLs, such as one going to anchor for chapter IV can be copied from the link, pasted and called:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/loi_a1.pl?language=fr&la=F&table_name=loi&cn=1994021730&&caller=list&F&fromtab=loi&tri=dd+AS+RANK&rech=1&numero=1&sql=(text+contains+(%27%27))#LNK0014
and then simplified by removing the unneeded (maybe confidential) search-related parameters:
http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi_loi/loi_a1.pl?language=fr&la=F&table_name=loi&cn=1994021730&caller=list&fromtab=loi#LNK0014
You see that only &caller and &fromtab are required in addition to #anchor.
Contacts with local authorities
Flanders
There is a license agreement for using data of AGIV. This agency is maintaining GIS information for all kind of Flemish authorities. The AGIV aerial imagery and AGIV GRB base map can be consulted and used as background layer (you can add the WMS URLs in JOSM, they are loaded to iD by default). The GRB base map contains geographical information about parcels, buildings, roads, waters, rivers and railways. The AGIV aerial imaginary is more recent and more detailed then the Bing arial imaginary. The AGIV-CRAB-database of addresses is open for the import of house numbers in OSM (via a JOSM application).
- See AGIV Website as Reference about the use of AGIV data and aerial imagery in OSM; and CRAB address data about the import of house numbers in OSM.
Brussels Capital Region
We have urbis \o/ ... see the Brussels Capital Region page
Wallonia
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)