Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-27 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
: vrijdag 11 februari 2011 10:04 Aan: Toby Murray; talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage Toby Murray wrote: Does anyone think more discussion is going to yield anything useful? It is obvious that Anthony is unwilling to accept a nearly universally held community

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-11 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 09:12 -0500, Mike N wrote: On 2/10/2011 9:01 AM, Anthony wrote: Tracing aerials does not involve copying data. Tracing from Google's imagery not only violates their terms of usage, their spokespeople say that it's explicitly not allowed. There's nothing to

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Ayre
Toby Murray wrote: Does anyone think more discussion is going to yield anything useful? It is obvious that Anthony is unwilling to accept a nearly universally held community consensus. I initially thought that the wholesale nuking of all his contributions was a little drastic. But his continued

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Nope, that doesn't really help. Anthony posted a message out of the blue with a before and after picture and later stated that The board voted to delete my contributions, and this is the before and after. Later someone (who

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread john
My guess would be that, rather than using a database rollback to reverse the edits, someone tried to undo them manually by deleting every object he has touched. ---Original Email--- Subject :[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map)

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license changeis going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Tom Hughes
On 10/02/11 14:03, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: My guess would be that, rather than using a database rollback to reverse the edits, someone tried to undo them manually by deleting every object he has touched. A database rollback would be a bit drastic - it would remove every edit made by

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 10 February 2011 14:01, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Which, by the way, I denied.  Tracing aerials does not involve copying data. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. Since I began mapping on OSM (which was a while ago) the considered opinion of the project was Don't trace Google imagery.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the licensechange is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread john
OK then. It sounds like we need a more sophisticated undo script that can query the database and find out the full list of actions that the user had done during a certain time-frame, so as to make sure to undo all of them. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 February 2011 14:01, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Which, by the way, I denied.  Tracing aerials does not involve copying data. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. It definitely doesn't. There's no maybe about

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the licensechange is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread john
The position of objects is certainly part of the data belonging to those objects, and tracing of aerial objects is done in order to determine their position. So, you are copying the positional data from the serial images. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Joseph Reeves
Regardless of what you believe, Google have said that they don't want their imagery traced into OSM and OSM have said that they don't want Google derived data in the database. You polluted the database with data nobody wants and now have been trolling the mailing lists ever since. That doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Kay Drangmeister
Hi Am 10.02.2011, 15:24 Uhr, schrieb Anthony o...@inbox.org: Which, by the way, I denied. Tracing aerials does not involve copying data. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. It definitely doesn't. There's no maybe about it. Since you are no judge I dare to object. However: OSM data

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 10 February 2011 14:24, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: It definitely doesn't.  There's no maybe about it. You seem to have missed my substantive point, so let me restate it: You deliberately did something we as a community have chosen not to do. You willfully put the work of others in

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Kay Drangmeister k...@drangmeister.net wrote: Hi Am 10.02.2011, 15:24 Uhr, schrieb Anthony o...@inbox.org: Which, by the way, I denied.  Tracing aerials does not involve copying data. Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't. It definitely doesn't.  There's no

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Anthony wrote: I thought I understood the policy. To cover your ass so Google can't say you're encouraging people to break the TOS. But I've been told that isn't it at all, and that you actually don't want people to trace from Google. Honesty - try it some day, it works !

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:36:53 +0100 Kay Drangmeister k...@drangmeister.net wrote: However: OSM data integrity is at stake, and you are endangering it, willfully and knowingly. While you seem to understand the reasoning behind the OSM contribution policy, you fail to obey it. You are

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Ulf Lamping
Am 10.02.2011 15:12, schrieb Grant Slater: Message from Mikel 2 days ago explaining: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2011-February/001052.html I believe the user-revert script used is fairly simple and does not have direct access to the OSM database. The script does attempt

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:59:45 + Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net wrote: On 10/02/11 19:37, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:36:53 +0100 Kay Drangmeisterk...@drangmeister.net wrote: Let's get this completely fair, and remove all the work of others who have been caught tracing

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Where possible only infringing edits will be removed - I'm not sure why you think we would or should do more than that. In this case the mapper refused to cooperate with identifying which edits were infringing so we had to

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Anthony wrote: I've repeatedly identified which edits were infringing - NONE OF THE EDITS WERE INFRINGING. I'm afraid there seems to be either a misunderstanding between us or a contradiction on your part. Earlier in this thread you wrote : I said on a mailing list that I traced from

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Anthony o...@inbox.org To: Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map) On Thu, Feb

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
Either you traced from Google or none of the edits were infringing. Those two assertions are mutually incompatible. No they aren't. Anthony, they might not be incompatible as far as you are concerned. But they are incompatible as far as the OSM community is concerned.  That is a fact.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
OSM has repeatedly said it does not want contents that are derived from Google tracing.  It's very clear.  OSM is not asking you whether you think you are allowed to trace from Google.  It is telling you that as a community we don't want you to trace from Google. Yes.  And it's telling me

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 01:11, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Actually, let me correct that.  A tiny fraction (less than 0.001%) of the OSM community has told me that by deleting contributions which have absolutely nothing to do with my tracing from Google. What percentage has told you that that

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Anthony wrote: OSM is not asking you whether you think you are allowed to trace from Google. It is telling you that as a community we don't want you to trace from Google. Yes. And it's telling me that by deleting contributions which have absolutely nothing to do with my tracing from Google.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: Anthony wrote: OSM is not asking you whether you think you are allowed to trace from Google.  It is telling you that as a community we don't want you to trace from Google. Yes. And it's telling me that by deleting

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
Anthony wrote: After admitting to tracing from Google imagery, you refused to tell which objects were involved. Oh my God. How many times do I have to say this? NO OBJECTS WERE INVOLVED. I don't understand how you can both admit tracing from Google imagery and at the same time tell us

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
Anthony wrote: After admitting to tracing from Google imagery, you refused to tell which objects were involved. Oh my God. How many times do I have to say this? NO OBJECTS WEREINVOLVED. I don't understand how you can both admit tracing from Google imagery and at the same time

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:54 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: Anthony, when you traced from google imagery, what went into OSM? Nothing. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 01:34, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Oh my God.  How many times do I have to say this?  NO OBJECTS WERE INVOLVED. By now this is all at risk of getting a little like a soap opera, and like with soaps, there is a risk that people coming in at the middle of a storyline will

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Toby Murray
Does anyone think more discussion is going to yield anything useful? It is obvious that Anthony is unwilling to accept a nearly universally held community consensus. I initially thought that the wholesale nuking of all his contributions was a little drastic. But his continued anti-community

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:54 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: Anthony, when you traced from google imagery, what went into OSM? Nothing. So why did you say that you had traced from google imagery in the first place? (if nothing went into OSM) nick

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: And yes, if as much of the community agreed that 1+1=3 as agrees that tracing from google is not desirable, then I would tag lanes=3 on 2 lane roads. I wouldn't. And I think that pretty much sums this whole mess up.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
* Anthony goes on to have in his possession simultaneously tea and no tea, thereby solving one of the stickier puzzle in the Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game[1]. Go Anthony! Was there ever a sequel to that text adventure? It kind of ended on a cliff-hanger ... nick

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: So why did you say that you had traced from google imagery in the first place? (if nothing went into OSM) I think the more interesting question is, if I had demanded that all my contributions to OSM be removed, would

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 02:05, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: Was there ever a sequel to that text adventure? It kind of ended on a cliff-hanger ... Well there was a crucial bit where the protagonist left the planet... Dermot -- -- Igaühel on siin

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread Dermot McNally
On 11 February 2011 02:09, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I think the more interesting question is, if I had demanded that all my contributions to OSM be removed, would they have been removed? What basis would you have had for such a demand? Dermot -- --

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread john
Did you make your statement about having traced from Google in order to get all of your work backed out? ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage From :mailto:o...@inbox.org Date :Thu Feb 10 20:09:16 America/Chicago 2011 On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
On 11 February 2011 02:05, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: Was there ever a sequel to that text adventure? It kind of ended on a cliff-hanger ... Well there was a crucial bit where the protagonist left the planet... Last bit I remember, the protagonist left the spaceship to

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

2011-02-10 Thread David Fawcett
Damn, I assumed that it was either the 'evil twin' or 'amnesia' plot line. On Feb 10, 2011, at 8:00 PM, Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2011 01:34, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Oh my God. How many times do I have to say this? NO OBJECTS WERE INVOLVED. By now