Welcome to the Belgian OpenStreetMap forum!
Feel free to speak English, French, Dutch or German here.
About US
We are all volunteers here. Most of us just like to map, but we also try to be an organization you can talk to. We are a diverse bunch, and hence you can talk to us in many ways.
If you’ve got any questions, we can help you: if you think you broke something, don’t know for sure how to map something, or just want to know more about OpenStreetMap, you can contact us:
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Through this specific subforum, or the matching channels for our neighbouring countries. There is no high volume in posts, but your questions WILL get picked up.
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Through our ‘general’ Riot chat channel: (https://riot.im/app/#/room/#osmbe:matrix.org). If you prefer to use IRC you can join the converstation through https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels=osmbe
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Through our ‘topic-specific’ Riot chat channels (https://riot.im/app/#/group/+osmbe:matrix.org)
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Through our website (http://osm.be)
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Through the Belgian mailing list (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be) . To see what that list is about, have a look at the archives (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-be/)
In case you just want to keep track of what we’re doing:
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Follow @osm_be on Twiter (https://twitter.com/osm_be)
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Subscribe to the Belgian newsletter (http://osm.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cc6632a49e784f67574e50269&id=5c2416bba6).
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Become a member of the Meetup Group (https://www.meetup.com/OpenStreetMap-Belgium/) - and meet us at a real life meetup.
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Become a member of the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419016881706058/)
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Become a member of the Google+ community (https://plus.google.com/communities/114637875336935397552).
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Have a look at the projects listed on the website (http://osm.be)
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Keep in touch what’s going on worldwide through a weekly newsletter (http://weeklyosm.eu) - RSS subscription available
About YOU
Yes, you read that right. We love to hear all about you, what you’re doing, what you’re hoping to achieve, what bothers and annoys you, and what small victories happened to make your day.
As much as ‘getting your inspired’, we care about ‘being inspired’ aswell.
Assuming you’ve read all of the above, you know where to find us.
We’re awaiting you. No promise on cookies.
Pointers and resources
OpenStreetMap, as you will find out (or have done so already) involves a lot more then ‘drawing what you see and make sure it looks pretty’.
Here’s a few basic resources you may want to dig into in case of questions:
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The official wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki). It has a ton of info, and lists the conventions on what tags to use
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Your favorite search engine. Searching with something like this: ‘“site:wiki.openstreetmap.org [search term]”’ will help you navigate the wiki mentioned before.
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The OpenStreetMap Help forum (https://help.openstreetmap.org/)
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Tons of visualisations, allowing you to see where you’ve been active, who’s active around you, … (http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/)
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Overpass Turbo. It’s a great tool to query / style / visualise the data the default renderen doesn’t show. Link with an example: (http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/wBK)
The above may be a lot to take in. Do it at your own pace, reach out to others when you feel you need help or feedback.
We love helping people on board, and be ‘one of us’.
Happy Mapping!
OpenStreetMap Belgium