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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2025-01-08 at 09:16

RouteYou.com is a Belgian company that let's you share hiking, cycling, ... routes. It also has a very original router to help you plan a route along pretty paths. Of course, all of this is built using OpenStreetMap data. We are happy to say they renewed for another year as Corporate Member of OpenStreetMap Belgium!

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-12-12 at 19:39

Our board member @joost_schouppe had the privilege to receive for us the first ever Impact Award at the Geospatial Awards organized by FLAGIS and AM/FM-GIS BeLux, the two main GIS user organizations in Belgium.

"[Joost sees] it as a recognition of how our data and project has become ubiquitous in the Belgian GIS world."

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7273057075897765890/

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-12-06 at 16:55

The ErfgoedApp already used OSM data to help you plot a heritage centered walk. Now they've include an LLM that let's you talk with the data too. Their release about it includes a call to add more heritage to OSM

https://faro.be/blogs/bram-wiercx/vraag-het-aan-oehoe-de-chatbot-van-de-erfgoedapp

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-12-04 at 11:02

Next week on Monday we're doing another meetup in Brussels!

Invite your geo friends to come along!

https://osmcal.org/event/3320/

https://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgium/events/304912612/

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-11-09 at 11:33

Near Bruges? Want to help OSM-based navigation for the blind? Join the mapathon we organize on November 29th.

Details via https://openstreetmap.be/nl/2024/11/09/lili.html

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-10-22 at 14:29

Zeker inschrijven als je van plan bent om te komen (zo kunnen we de catering correct voorzien)

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-10-21 at 13:44

🚶‍♂️🗺️ Doe mee aan de LiLi-app mapathon in Brugge!

Op 29 november van 18:00-22:00 in The Crown - Vives Hogeschool helpen we OpenStreetMap België met het toegankelijker maken van de stad voor blinden en slechtzienden. Samen vullen we ontbrekende infrastructuur aan die de Lili-app gebruikt om de veiligste routes te bepalen.

Meer info: https://amai.vlaanderen/projecten/project3-lili

📍 Locatie: The Crown - Vives Hogeschool , Brugge

⏰ 18:00 - 22:00

💻 Meenemen: Laptop (breng muis)

https://osmcal.org/event/3228/

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-10-12 at 20:04

This morning on Radio 1, one of the Belgian national radio stations, there was an interview with Isabelle de Maeght from FEBETRA (Belgian Federation of Transporters and Logistics Service Providers) who said that there isn't a good map with all the streets that heavy trucks aren't allowed to use.

They don't know about #OpenStreetMap yet it seems which has a lot of this data already: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Sz5

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-10-10 at 16:08

Need statistics about cyclestreets? In Belgium, the best source for that is OpenStreetMap. This article mentions us in the first paragraph!

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/10/10/meer-fietsstraten-in-vlaanderen/

Thanks to Fietsberaad for publishing, @joost_schouppe for processing the data and all you mappers for creating the data

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-09-26 at 09:41

Now presenting #foss4gbenl : Robin from OnWheels presenting how they map accessibility of POIs on OSM

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-09-21 at 15:39

Fietsberaad is working on integrating their cycle park data with OSM (with @MapComplete ). Join us on Oct 17th at their offices in Brussels to get to know them and work on the project. Drinks & food are on them!

Register at https://www.meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgium/events/303567434/

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Written by OpenStreetMap Belgium on 2024-08-15 at 10:01

@osgeobe welcome to the light side!

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