(Do we need)
An OSM Embassy?
Ben Abelshausen
OSM Belgium
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Your data is bad!
- We don't do imports and they are bad.
- We don't have the resources to do this for you, how dare you even ask.
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Your data is bad!
- We don't do imports and they are bad.
- We don't have the resources to do this for you, how dare you even ask.
> Company: Let's just import all the things anyway.
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Your data is bad!
- We don't do imports and they are bad.
- We don't have the resources to do this for you, how dare you even ask.
> Company: Let's just import all the things anyway.
> OSM: WTF?
City of Antwerp
Brussels Cycling network
Brussels & Cobblestones
A company that...
Changed all the maxspeeds to 70 after the local laws changed!
Executed poorly.
Took us a long time to fix!
How can we fix this?
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
- We verfied it and we have found these mistakes, can you fix it first.
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
- We verfied it and we have found these mistakes, can you fix it first.
> Company: OK, thanks for letting us know, does that mean all those other maps are wrong about us?!
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
- We verfied it and we have found these mistakes, can you fix it first.
> Company: OK, thanks for letting us know, does that mean all those other maps are wrong about us?!
> OSM:
- Yes, yes, it does!
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
- We verfied it and we have found these mistakes, can you fix it first.
> Company: OK, thanks for letting us know, does that mean all those other maps are wrong about us?!
> OSM:
- Yes, yes, it does!
> Company: Can you improve things!?
A typical case...
> Company: Let's get our data in OSM, they'll be happy we're sharing.
> Company: Hey OSM, here's our data!
> OSM:
- Thanks but we'll have to verify the data first.
- We verfied it and we have found these mistakes, can you fix it first.
> Company: OK, thanks for letting us know, does that mean all those other maps are wrong about us?!
> OSM:
- Yes, yes, it does!
> Company: Can you improve things!?
> OSM:
- Let's do this!
OSM Embassy
- A non-profit mapping agency.
- Run by the OSM community.
- That does payed mapping.
OSM Embassy
Only do projects that:
- Require quaranteed consistency.
- Have a fixed timeframe.
A level of involvement beyond a volunteering organization...
OSMF
Support not control
I don't see the OSMF doing this.
Local Chapters
Payed mapping?!
Who does what?
Not community-focused anymore.
We do have one example...
A project...
City of brussels would ask us to:
- Map all cyclenetworks.
- Map all cobblestones.
Requirements are:
- Keep it up-to-date.
- Give feedback about our data.
- Do it in 1 month.
We cannot do this as OSM belgium...
We cannot leave this to a company...
(Do we need)
An OSM Embassy?