OSM at Open Belgium 2022
Hiking.osm.be, a new paper maps offer based on OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap goes professional
Professional use of OSM is increasing
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With increased use comes increase responsibility
Paid mapping
Professionalize the organization
OSMF: More admin support, full time sysadmin, core software maintainer
Support the community
OSMbe on a path to further growth
Creating open streetlevel imagery
Better data for all: combining OpenStreetMap and government data management
Road Completion
OSM is powered by the crowd
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All cases were checked
OSM is as complete as the gov data!
Giving back
We need to exclude false positives anyway, so why not have them fixed at the source?
Typical errors
- Private driveway mapped as real road
- Planned roads / in construction already mapped as existing
- Forest paths that are long gone
We sent 561 cases back - 90% resulted in a fix in Wegenregister
But many errors in official data were ignored by us!
When fixing OSM, you can fix gov data too!
But much untapped potential
- Weekly analysis in Flanders & Brussels
- Yearly in Wallonia. Help wanted!
- Software built by Jonathan Beliën with OSMF funding is scalable
- Weekly stats about the status of the road network in OSM
Road Completion Status
You can trust OSM data!
it's at least as complete as gov data