[Belgium] Mapping facilities for homeless and socially disabled people

Moritz Lennert mlennert at club.worldonline.be
Thu Nov 12 08:00:52 PST 2015


Hi everyone,

I will be less present in the discussions than before as I really have 
to get stuff done at work.

On this particular issue, you should check

https://www.facebook.com/events/715594605243293/

and the parties involved (dewey.de)

Moritz

On 12/11/15 07:29, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> Hello Christophe,
>
> First of all thanks for the  idea. I was in a hurry preparing my
> "conclusions and outlook for osgeo.be <http://osgeo.be>" presentation.
> One of the things I wanted to add was how we can use FOSS4G to create
> value - somewhat triggered by the "where is the money" discussion just
> before.
>
> Anyway, I'm adding the openstreetmap be mailing list as they have much
> more experience in organising mapping parties.
>
> To the OSM folks: the idea is to organise a "mapping party" targeted
> towards homeless and socially disabled people. Full thread below (I
> added an inline comment).
>
> Kind Regards,
> Johan
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Christophe Cloquet
> <christophe at my-poppy.eu <mailto:christophe at my-poppy.eu>> wrote:
>
>
>     Thank you for your interest in this topic !
>
>     I am volunteer at the Red-Cross, so I could also relay to that
>     network, as well as to 'La Strada', and some other small structures.
>
>     Now, I never attended such a mapping party, so I do not know how
>     many people to expect. I could mobilize some, but few with a
>     cartographic background. However, people from the field could
>     perhaps bring useful informations that are not otherwise easily
>     accessible ?
>
>
>
> That is surely the case - they may also help finding out what is really
> important, how maps are probably going to be used (print, smartphone,
> language , ...?), ... that is much more important than eg what software
> we are going to use.
>
> I'd actually suggest sitting together and brainstorming with at least
> some of them first, so we can prepare the mapping party, this can be on
> short notice.
>
>
>
>     Best regards,
>
>     Christophe
>
>     PS : There is perhaps also something to do for the migrants as well !
>
>
>     Le 11/11/2015 07:42, Maelle Vercauteren a écrit :
>>     Yes it could be really great to start with that !
>>
>>     I'm volunteer at Médecins du Monde. So if you want I could help
>>     for making a link with them. Next week we will start the « Plan
>>     Hiver» (http://www.medecinsdumonde.be/belgique/le-plan-hiver) in
>>     SAMU to open medical facilities for homeless people. In parallel,
>>     they also have a project for migrants this year « Quai 22 » at
>>     Willebroeck
>>     (http://nl.metrotime.be/2015/11/04/news/dokters-van-de-wereld-ziet-aantal-consultaties-asielzoekers-in-brussel-verdubbelen/;
>>     http://www.telebruxelles.be/emissions/interview/).
>>
>>     I know that the Hackathon's winning team made a mapping tool for
>>     disabled people. Perhaps it could be nice to contact them and see
>>     if the technical architecture of their tool is interesting for the
>>     project ?
>>
>>     By the way, to place this first activity the January 29 at the
>>     ULB, we (Moritz and I) need to know what kind of room would be
>>     needed (capacity, etc ...) and with what time-schedule...
>>
>>     Kind regards, Maë//e
>>
>>     2015-11-09 20:30 GMT+01:00 Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
>>     <mailto:dirk.frigne at geosparc.com>>:
>>
>>         I think this is a great idea.
>>         We discussed today the next possible events of OSGeo.be and
>>         one of the
>>         idea's (Marc) is to organise some tech network events
>>         (probably evolving
>>         to a code sprint). This could be a nice topic to dicuss the
>>         technical
>>         architecture.
>>
>>         D.
>>
>>         On 09-11-15 18:58, Christophe Cloquet wrote:
>>         > Hi everyone,
>>         >
>>         > Thanks again for the organization of FOSS4G !
>>         >
>>         > As a suggestion for an upcoming activity, I would like to
>>         propose a
>>         > mapping challenge around the facilities for homeless and
>>         socially
>>         > disabled people. There are already some data here and there
>>         (like open
>>         > data about the water facilities), there is a yearly print
>>         map made by
>>         > 'La Strada' (it seems they might need some help for their
>>         online service
>>         > : http://plan.brureg-lastrada.be/service/list/), but by
>>         putting together
>>         > GIS specialists, citizens, charities (Red-Cross, Infirmiers
>>         de rue,
>>         > Médecins du Monde, ...) and beneficiaries, I am convinced
>>         something
>>         > great could happen !
>>         >
>>         > For instance, we could inventoriate social restaurants, social
>>         > hair-cutters, places where homeless people can drink some
>>         > 'cafés-suspendus', etc.
>>         >
>>         > This could in turn form the basis for an app/website sur as
>>         this one :
>>         > https://www.facebook.com/EntourageReseauCivique/, that could
>>         benefit to
>>         > homeless people.
>>         >
>>         > I am quite busy at the moment to organize this event by
>>         myself, but if
>>         > it can be organized, I can relay it through my networks, and
>>         come to
>>         > help for the mapping party !
>>         >
>>         > What would you think ?
>>         >
>>         > Kind regards,
>>         >
>>         > Christophe
>>         >
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