Importing the public bookcases database of Noreen

[pietervdvn]

Together with @s8evq, we have started with placing nodes where there is a public bookcase according to Noreen's database. (We got his permission to copy it all after a friendly mail.)

This issue thread aims to track progress of the import.

The overview sheet can be found here

Open questions:

• [ ] How to tag 'Geefkasten'? A public shack where people drop their old goods, toys, ... to exchange, similar to books?

Fancy maps and stats

• Pietervdvn's quickmap
• Ici.be (has a nice table and counters)

[jbelien]

Awesome project @pietervdvn ! :)

Just for reference, could you copy the (part of the) email giving permission to use her database ? Thanks !

[pietervdvn]

In principe heb ik er niets op tegen dat jullie de gegevens van mijn website gebruiken.

(In principle, I don't mind if the data of my website are being used)

This is the only line which is really about giving permission. Other parts of the mail are about technicalities.

[hgcvm]

The same framacalc is now updated and holds the information for all Flemish provinces.

[pietervdvn]

I've found a 'wild' bookcase today - one that wasn't mentioned elsewhere!

[hgcvm]

I have moved from framacalc to ethercalc.org, as framacalc is shutting down 6 july 2020. https://ethercalc.org/gday02l9wv

[bxl-forever]

How shall we deal with the dozens of notes that have been hanging for about a year? Some bookcases could not be found and we do not have enough mappers with enough time to do all the surveys. Either we organise a special mapathon for public bookcases or we should clean up.

[jbelien]

@bxl-forever Good point! I asked myself the same question a few days ago.

I think we can just close the remaining open notes about this topic.

[hgcvm]

If you close the notes, does it mean the bookcase doesn't exist, or has not been surveyed?

I'm closely keeping track of the notes in East- and West Flanders. It's a very slow process. Once in a while, I get a message about a note being closed from somebody who happened to pass by the location and found it or did not find it.

It would be a pity to close all the notes, without alternative system to keep track of them.

I understand all the open notes on the map look very messy

[hgcvm]

I'm going over the ones in Brussels and closing if somebody replied it wasn't found (and keeping track in ethercalc)

[hgcvm]

According to the ethercalc, these notes are still open in Brussels: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1792216 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1792216 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1792218 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1792219 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1792220 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1794086 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1794172 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1795034 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1835631 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1893722 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1893724 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1895123 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1895127 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1895128 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/1895130 https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2024840

(small statistics: out of the possible 103 public bookcases, we have: 36% confirmed and mapped 7% confirmed as non existant 16% note still left open and for remaining 41%, we didn't even add a note yet) not bad at all i think :)

[pietervdvn]

I've made a new 'quickmap' for bookcases: https://pietervdvn.github.io/MapComplete/bookcases.html?z=14&lat=50.850&lon=4.3611

[joostschouppe]

I think this project is as complete as it is going to get Worth a blogpost though