Luxembourg has a fantastic number of marked trails, all fastidiously mapped out and available online via the government run Geoportail. The site and its datasets are administered by the Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie, which outwardly appears to be a collection of passionate GIS nerds. Alongside the wide range of comprehensive datasets (a high resolution point cloud of the entire country, anyone?), it also offers some more whimsical facilities, like the ability to download any region in Luxembourg as a Minecraft map.

Bon à savoir, l'État met à disposition une API de «géocodage» (trouver une coordonnée à partir d'une adresse)

Par contre, impossible de trouver des informations sur un éventuel rate-limiting, et les CGU ne semblent fixer aucune limite, c'est assez curieux.

I don’t want to worry about whether Google will think my work is a “social good,” I don’t want to worry about re-applying every year, I don’t want to worry about the branch of Google that helps me out might vanish tomorrow, and so on. Too much uncertainty. Do you know how hard it is to get in contact with a real human being at Google? I’m not saying they’re impossible — they did help me waive some of the fees that came from me not understanding the pricing policy — but that took literally months to work out, and in the meantime they sent a collection agency after me.

D'un côté il y a une volonté de faire de l'open data, mais il y a toujours les vieux réflexes propriétaires qui reviennent …