Dear Wikidata Community,
funded by the OpenKnowledge Foundation's Prototype Fund[1] I am working
on a project called OpenMetroMaps[2] since last September. The project
is an open-source and open-data project. I develop free software,
libraries and data formats for storing, editing and processing data
about transit networks and for designing schematic maps. The idea is to
provide the infrastructure for local communities to collect free data
about their transit network and to enable them to make use of such data
with a current focus on schematic network maps.
The project is concerned with data collected and topics addressed in
both the Wikidata and the OpenStreetMap projects. Albeit there are
license incompatiblities involved preventing direct import of data from
one project into the other, both projects might benefit from tools that
visualize and validate their data.
Since I am currently working on the project mostly alone, I have
organized a meeting with the intention to meet other people interested
in the topic. I would like to discuss ideas about where to go with the
project and problems that should be addressed in the Wikimedia family
of projects as well as the OpenStreetMap when it comes to data about
public transport. It will take place on February 11 from 14h to
16:30h in the Berlin office of Wikmedia Germany[3]. Please let me know
if you would like to attend so that I roughly estimate how many people
are going to participate.
You can also read the invitation on the German OpenStreetMap mailing
list[4] for some more details.
I hope to see you on Sunday,
Sebastian
[1]
https://prototypefund.de
[2]
http://www.openmetromaps.org
[3]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TU23
[4]
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2018-February/114636.html