On contact page, link to element.io instead of riot.im
(low priority)

Maybe with: http://embed.ly/provider/meetup

https://openstreetmap.be/en/projects.html has https://openstreetmap.be/en/projects/howto.html
These pages should probably not be top level projects?:
https://openstreetmap.be/en/projects/howto/leaflet.html
https://openstreetmap.be/en/projects/howto/openlayers.html

They do in the Dutch version!

add links to hot, missing maps, maptime...

To create something more permanent based on texts like these:

https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/A11-OSM-BE-mail-c3rjvQyvMz

At the footer of the page it currently says: We are a working group and part of Open Knowledge Belgium

That should probably become: We are a working group and part of Open Knowledge Belgium and a Local Chapter (1) of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (2).

link 1: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters
link 2: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/about/

I couldn't find the page where this is defined...

In Dutch: Wij zijn een werkgroep en deel van Open Knowledge Belgium en een Local Chapter van de OpenStreetMap Foundation

Due to actual directory structure (en, nl, fr) it's not possible to enable pagination (and probably other plugins).

What do you think if I change the directory structure the same as I did for the company I work for website ?
See https://github.com/geo6/website and https://geo6.be/

I do not intend to change anything in the resulting website, the pages, the posts, everything stays just as it is right now ; my goal is just to change the structure of the pages so we can enable pagination.

Add something like this:

http://osm.be/nl/organization

Also update text about OKFN

Basically:

OSM België & OKFN

(logo here)

OpenStreetMap België werkt samen met de Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium (OKFN Belgium). OSM BE werkt als een werkgroep binnen OKFN België. osm.be osm.be is de verzamelnaam voor alle leden van de OpenStreetMap-gemeenschap in België. De gemeenschap organiseert verschillende activiteiten en ondersteunt elkaar in mapping activiteiten. Door kennis te delen over de OpenStreetMap-wereld verbeteren we onze eigen werking met als einddoel het in kaart brengen van heel België op OpenStreetMap.

(open knowledge logo here)

De Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is een non-profit organisation opgericht in 2004 ter ondersteuning en promotie van open knowledge in al zijn vormen. De Belgische afdeling werd opgericht in februari 2012 om een overkoepelende organisatie te vormen voor open knowledge in België.

OpenStreetMap België ontvangt steun van, of heeft in het verleden steun ontvangen van:

(sponsors here)

update ok-be address, is now BE central

Page: https://openstreetmap.be/nl/support.html
File: https://github.com/osmbe/website/blob/master/nl/support.html

As one of the 'newbies' around, an argument was raised about how it's not overly easy to actually find the Riot channel, where a lot of the core activity is going on / being discussed.

I would like to propose a direct invitation link to the channel being posted on the front page of osm.be, and possibly additionally a basic 'how to' on Riot, and detail on why Riot was chosen as an open source alternative to slack / discord which are known to a broader audience.

This would help counter two things:

1. People not being able to find it.
2. People not knowing what the hell this Riot thing is about.

Additionally, this could be extended to a 'sticky' is the Belgium section for the Openstreetmap forums.

GitHub Pages is configured for www.osm.be and so http://www.osm.be/ and https://www.osm.be/ work perfectly.

http://osm.be/ is currently redirected to https://www.osm.be/

BUT if we request https://osm.be/ there is (of course) a SSL certificate issue.

What would be the best way to fix it ?

Idea :

1. Configure GitHub for osm.be (https://osm.be/)
2. Host a simple redirection page on a server (could be mine)
   1. Page will redirect to https://osm.be/
   2. Page will be configured for
      • www.osm.be
      • openstreetmap.be
      • www.openstreetmap.be
   3. Page will have SSL certificate for all (sub-)domains (using Let's Encrypt)

I'd like to add this to the main page, right underneath our community e-mail address.. Is that OK?
Or better in another place?

Chat channels - https://riot.im/app/#/group/+osmbe:matrix.org

The current page http://www.osm.be/contact.html shows ALL the channels. This page should primarly talk to people who are not in the community yet. So it should focus on [email protected] in th first place. Maybe the other channels need to go somewhere else?

I removed the future: true from _config.yml because it messes up https://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ : future event will always be displayed first which is not something we want.

Find a way to display future events without displaying those events in https://openstreetmap.be/feed.xml (or at least published_date should not be the date of the event) !

Issue with the "Upcoming events" : since the page is generated by the last commit, the upcoming event list is wrong.

Need to use JavaScript to fix this !

currently it goes to the main page of the new language

Hello,

I would like to subscribe to the list of events on https://openstreetmap.be/en/news.html
but it looks like there is no RSS feed.
Could you add one please?

Thanks

Now it says: "Join OpenStreetMap Belgium and support us. We will keep you up-to-date on events, news and ongoing projects!"

I think we should clarify here who we would like to "join" (i.e. become member), and what do we expect of them. There should be a much more clear distinction from "signing up for updates".

So I'd suggest something like this:

"
Do you want to join our community? Check out our communication channels (LINK to page explaining meetup, twitter, etc).

Are you ready to step up your commitment to OpenStreetMap in Belgium? Then become an official member, using the form below. Read more about what it means to be an OSMbe member here (LINK)

Do you just want to be updated about our most important news and activities? Then subscribe to our (infrequent) newsletter with the form below.
"

(EDIT: of course the page about OSMbe membership can only be written AFTER we have the "official" meeting in Brussels)

Currently in the browser title for the blog post one can see OpenStreetMap Belgium/België/Belgique according to your language.

It could also in addition contain the title of the blog post like:
Mapper of the month: Brecht Bonne

Add documentation for total newbies

We used a neat little system at sotm 2016, I'll look it up

Suggestion: on https://openstreetmap.be/en/ , add a section "Our organization", with:

• a link to the bylaws
• a link to the membership
• a link to our yearly summary of activities
• names and bios of the current Board

I think we should remove google analytics, for various reasons. Anyone know of alternatives that can also be useful?

Or maybe we've already done that?

In the same idea as #48 , let's get rid of Google products for our beautiful website !

In under a week within the riot channel, I've seen a ton of usefull pages being linked, on a variety of subjects. I'm covering it now through a series of bookmarks, but a page bundeling an afwul lot of helpfull pages / scripts / .. could be significant added value.

This could contain - without limiting it to the following list - things like:

• Mapillary as a data source / how to contribute to it / how to request a free mount
• Links to a few standard scripted pages on turbo overpass (like the one supplied to check max speeds)
• Links to the forums, activity calendars, ..
• List of WMS sources which can be used within the scope of OSM license
• ...

I have a feeling there is a ton of great tools (and easy to use web applets) lying around, where links are gathering dust rather then reaching their potential due to not being known to the general public.

In case of 'building an osm.be community', bundling them through the website osm.be would assist in piggybacking of eachothers knowledge, data sources and general insights for mutual improvement and quality of life while processing data. OSM.be seems a better platform then this then merely an international wiki, though it could of course be duplicated there.

Have a maximum number of posts per page

Can we figure out a quick and simple way to add a donate button to the website?

I'm financing everything personally still and we need a (small) provable source of income to move those services under the Open Knowledge Belgium umbrella.

This doesn't need to be perfect, just simple...

When we have this I can just start donating whatever expenses there are now via the new system and we can move all services to Open Knowledge Belgium (domains and 1 machine).

Page: https://openstreetmap.be/nl/projects/mapathons.html
File: https://github.com/osmbe/website/blob/master/nl/projects/mapathons.md

On pages like https://openstreetmap.be/en/2018/12/31/weekly-riot.html the name of the associated image appears above the text. This image is shown properly in the posts-overview.

Suggestion by @joostschouppe and @thomersch:

Integrate directly on https://openstreetmap.be/ the feed from https://osmcal.org/ !
I like the idea because so far I have to copy the event on both our website + osmcal.org.

I think we could display the events on the "News" page and the next event on the homepage.

Any feedback ?

To be replaced with our new corporate members.

We should probably add a link on the frontpage for people who want to see some maps!

See https://web.archive.org/web/20160421060446/http://osm.be/nl/content/take-lead

Page: https://openstreetmap.be/nl/index.html
File: https://github.com/osmbe/website/blob/master/nl/index.html

Some inspiration from @jbelien:

The Task Manager is running behind Apache server so it runs on his own now !

The "new" link is http://tasks.osm.be/

Feel free to play around and do not fear to break it ! If it happens, contact me, I'll check what went wrong :D
And feel free to share the link with anyone of course.
You're an administrator so feel free to upgrade user accounts if needed, or delete test projects or anything you want...

When we decide to go to production , it would be nice to redirect something like https://tasks.openstreetmap.be/ to this task manager. Do you know who is in charge of the domain name "openstreetmap.be" ?
(by the way "openstreetmap.brussels" and "openstreetmap.vlaanderen" are still available :P)

I will use the same server to try to host OSM-BE baselayers (one in french, one in dutch - and probably one in german) as soon as I got some rest !

This is currently a small server I rent for 2.99 EUR (without taxes) a month hosted by OVH in France.

We can use this API to show tasks in uMap for instance (or anything similar).
The document is here : https://github.com/hotosm/osm-tasking-manager2/wiki/API

add the on going projects we have
add links to their wiki pages like the GRB import

Draft:
https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/OSMbe-Mapathon-Support-psvxUqWnvTXC9yi80zOfz

currently most of the blog entries only have just been imported without any formatting

As suggested by Jakka in the Riot Channel:

We could use a code template, easily found on website, on how people can use the OSM-be tiles in a webmap (with attribution and all), with a demo on how to use a marker in the map.

A demo page + a code snippet where we mark what needs to be changed in order to make the code work for integration in a website (and possibly bundel all those variables in one block at the start?)

I believe we should add a CC licence to our site

I see that the OSM wiki is CC BY SA 2.0
I know there is a version 4.0 but I must admit I don't know the differences

More and more website are switching to HTTPS (mostly thanks to Let's Encrypt) and I think it's time for us too :)

But it means that we can't use osm.be hosted by GitHub Pages anymore ; unfortunately GitHub Pages does not allow (yet ?) to have our own domain name (osm.be) and HTTPS.

I see (at the moment) 2 solutions :

• Use https://osmbe.github.io/website and redirect http://osm.be to GitHub url ;
• Host ourselves (I can do it) the website (which allow us to have https://osm.be/) ;

I would recommend the second solution ; not very "professional" to have an official website which url is https://.github.io/ 😁
But it would mean that (in a first step) every update has to be manually done on the server hosting https://osm.be/ ; I know it's possible to make to update automatic with tools like Travis or Chef or ... but I have never done it myself and must admit it looks at bit "opaque" at the moment (maybe someone can help me with that 😊 )