[OSM-talk] Crowdsource Mapping for Preparedness and Emergency Response
Hi all, Sorry HOT list if this is already on your radar, but I just came across this meeting organized by UN-SPIDER: http://www.un-spider.org/crowdsource-mapping ...'Expert Meeting to be held in Vienna to discuss strategies that will contribute to supporting civil protection and emergency management agencies to make use of products generated by such groups in areas of preparedness and emergency response and provide a better understanding to these groups on the specific needs of the disaster management community.' Anyone invited / going? I'm considering it. -- Martijn van Exel http://about.me/mvexel ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update
Hi, "by popular demand" ;) http://download.geofabrik.de/clipbounds/ Please make sure to read the README file there. Regarding boundaries, I prefer geographical over political grouping. The Azores are part of the Europe extract but they are not part of the Portugal extract; likewise, British/French/Dutch overseas territories are not included in the extract of the mother country and usually not even in the Europe extract. There are no hard and fast rules but I figured that if someone took the France extract and computed tiles for everything in that bounding box, they should not have a nasty surprise because I threw in Guadeloupe ;) Bye Frederik ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update
On 19/05/2011 11:09, Frank Fesevur wrote: It would be interesting for me if I could just review those polygons on a map. Indeed. Why not on an Open Street Map? For Denmark, it would expect the bounding polygon it to look like a simplified version of: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/50046. Hermann ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Unlicensed use of the logo in iPhone app?
2011/5/19 Russ Nelson : > Thomas Davie writes: > > On 18 May 2011, at 07:04, Russ Nelson wrote: > > > can Ken assign copyright in the logo to OSMF. > > > > He can, but I see no reason why he should (other than if he > > particularly wants to). The point of the licensing of this project > > is for people to get credit for what they did, I don't see why Ken > > should have to say "actually, it was the whole of the OSMF". > > So, no more reason than SteveC should have assigned the trademark, I > guess? You really can't compare this. To control the trademark is the power to decide who has the right to call himself "Openstreetmap", while beeing the copyright holder of a logo which is licensed cc-by-sa simply gives you the right to be credited when your work is used (because you already gave anyone the right to use your work without any royalties). But I agree to the point that it would be desirable not having to credit Ken every time the logo is used... cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update
2011/5/19 Frederik Ramm : > On 05/19/2011 06:44 AM, Hermann Peifer wrote: >> Are the boundary polygons that you use for clipping available somewhere? >> I do vaguely remember that I have seen them earlier, but I can't find >> them anymore. > > No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on request. > There's really no reason to keep them secret, I just haven't set up a > mechanism to automatically put them on the server because I didn't think > people were all that interested. It would be interesting for me if I could just review those polygons on a map. Don't know if and/or how this can be done. For instance, I want to use the Austria extract for the coming summer holiday, but we will stay near the border of Italy. So I would like to know how far does it go across borders. And I don't know how to see that from the polygons, if I could download them. Regards, Frank ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Banner for SOTM-EU on the startpage?
I wonder if it would not be nice to have a banner for SOTM-EU on the start page. As the page is already crowded, this could maybe appear only if the user is logged in (because then the infotext below the logo is not displayed). An example banner can be seen e.g. on http://www.openstreetmap.de/ (in "Events"). cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update
Frederik Ramm schrieb: >Hi, > >On 05/19/2011 06:44 AM, Hermann Peifer wrote: >> Are the boundary polygons that you use for clipping available >somewhere? >> I do vaguely remember that I have seen them earlier, but I can't find >> them anymore. > >No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on >request. >There's really no reason to keep them secret, I just haven't set up a >mechanism to automatically put them on the server because I didn't >think >people were all that interested. Are they so much in flux that simply putting them on a web server won't do as a mechanism? If you publish them you might get patches to eliminate those occasional spots of no-man's-land you were referring to in an earlier mail. One thing people might be interested in doing is to merge them and use the result for extracting where the geofabrik extracts are not mergeable. Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Geofabrik Download Server Update
On 19/05/2011 08:10, Frederik Ramm wrote: No, they aren't publicly available but I send them to people on request. There's really no reason to keep them secret, I just haven't set up a mechanism to automatically put them on the server because I didn't think people were all that interested. I am about to make some (rough) overview statistics for European countries, about the length of OSM ways (with tagfilters highway=motorway, railway=rail, etc.). Your country files at http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/ are very convenient in this context. Thanks for this great service! However, I wanted to see how much double-counting there might be, due to the simplified country borders and overlaps between neighbouring countries. I also wanted to know what your difference is between 'british_isles' and 'great_britain', etc. Other users of your files might have a similar interest. Hermann ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
