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# 'Pin je Punt' - one year later
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About a year ago, we launched a mapping campaign at the request from [_Visit Flanders_ (Toerisme Vlaanderen)](toerismevlaanderen.be/pin-je-punt). (The project is explained below)
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A part of the campaign involved a guided import. The agencies had many datasets lying around (e.g. about benches or picnic tables) which they wanted to have imported in OSM. As doing a data import is hard - and the data was sometimes outdated, we opted for another approach: for every possible feature, a map note was created containing a friendly explanation and instructions to open MapComplete - which would close the map note on behalf of the contributor, marking them "imported", "not found" or "not valid" depending on what the contributor chose.
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Most map notes are closed by now, but the central question in this analysis today is: _should remaining map notes be closed in batch, or do we leave them open for longer_? Note that input of the local community will be gathered as well.
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##
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## The project in a nutshell
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> This is what I sent to the Belgian Mailing list on the 5th of february. Note that the actual launch was later, around the 4th of March
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Toerisme Vlaanderen will be launching an OpenStreetMap-based project on
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the 14th of February. This is a rather big project which I'd like to
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introduce to you with this email. The project consists of a few parts
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which might have some impact:
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- A MapComplete theme with focus on some touristical POI's will be launched
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- A guided survey/data import will be started
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- Toerisme Vlaanderen will ask their partners to start mapping, so
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hopefully we'll welcome a group of new mappers
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This project will focus on the following POI's:
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- Benches and picnic tables
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- (Public) toilets
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- Playgrounds,
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- electrical charging stations (with a focus on charging stations for
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electrical bicycles)
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- Bicycle pumps and repair stations
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- and observation towers
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*What is this project about?*
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/*Toerisme Vlaanderen*/ is a Flemish state agency which promotes tourism
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in Flanders, together with the 5 provincial touristical offices and some
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other organisations.
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Historically, these 5 offices have each held their own small set of
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geodata for typical items such as benches, public toilets, picnic
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tables, playgrounds, ... to put those items on their maps.
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And of course, these offices have kept this data in their own
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spreadsheets, in their own formats (except for one - which has been
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using OSM for years now).
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Toerisme Vlaanderen would like to unify all these databases into
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OpenStreetMap, increase the data quality of the items already there and
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improve the surveying flow.
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This is where MapComplete comes in. *MapComplete* <mapcomplete.osm.be/>
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is a web-app where one can show information about POI, can answer
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questions about these POI and can add new points. Depending on the
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chosen map, some categories of POI are shown.
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For this project, a theme showing (and asking information about)
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benches, picnictables, playgrounds, charging stations, ... has been
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created and will be launched on 14 februari/. (If you look around a bit,
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you can already find a link to the theme, but another email will follow
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when the project is live.)/
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A slow data import: methodology
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Of course, there is quite a bit of geodata laying around with the
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provincial offices, which ideally ends up in OpenStreetMap too.
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For this, a slow data import has been started. Instead of dumping all
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the data into OSM, a *map note* is created for every item that should be
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checked.
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This map note is structured in such a way that a contributor can use it,
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but MapComplete can also pick this up to show this to a contributor.
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This contributor can then quickly add/import the new feature if they
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found it, or they can mark the note as a duplicate or not existing
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anymore - closing the note in at the same time. These notes also link to
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both the wiki page and to the mapcomplete page where they can be easily
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added.
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As with all things in life, this method has advantages and drawbacks:
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- The biggest advantage is exposure of the import to experienced
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contributors. (Case in point: I've already had valuable response on a
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few notes within 24hours of them going live)
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- The import is tracked in OSM itself, containing a lot of information
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and providing a flexible forum
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- It is quick and easy to setup
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- Others can make a similar note, which will be picked up by MapComplete
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too!
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