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Presentation I held in Amsterdam at the State of The Map annual conference in 2009. It shows the past, the present of the future of OSM in Romania, with the progress but also the issues we have.
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SOTM 2009 - Amsterdam
State of Romania
2006 - present day and future
OSM Romania Community
History 2006 - 2008
First contributor: ovidiusoft, February 2006 2007 – Timisoara by Peter Kovacs 2007 November - 10 users, extract of 750KB 2008 February – start of local extract script 2008 August – 130 users, extract 10MB
Present - 2009
Over 300 known users, extract of 25MB Main road network covered around 90% A lot of cities with good and very good coverage
Present – 2009
Present - 2009
Extract is versioned using Git - Eddy Petrisor On-the-fly renderer server - Ionut Muntean Active mailing list (now on osm.org) with 75
subscribers
Datasources
Geo-spatial.org - Vasile Craciunescu Counties borders – Guenter, 2007 Suceava, Campulung Moldovenesc - Alex_map,
GChris complete set of populated areas (in progress) -
indreas, Eddy
Datasources
Big GPS tracks donators Francesco – 5GB of tracks ESG (norc.ro) - 16GB of tracks and the possibility of
deriving data from their images. The municipality of Hunedoara - Alexandru
Nekula Other: GPSies, alpinet.org
Issues
Lack of accessible satellite imagery Lack of open government data (remember
OS?) Users dispersed in the whole country. Road quality across the country creates
difficulties on tagging.
Future
Community
Organize the first mapping party Meetings in different academic entities OSM local chapter in Romania?
Data
More tracks from norc.ro and other fleet management companies
Contact more municipalities to obtain more sources of data
