[OSM-legal-talk] Spanish Order of Ministry

2008-04-08 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
Good news, everyone! I think I must be dreaming today. This is too good news to be true. An Order of Ministry was issued yesterday: http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/doc.php?coleccion=indilexid=2008/06229txtlen=1000 Basically, it is the data policy for the geo information made by the spanish

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Hakan Tandogan wrote: I am an self-employed Computer Scientist with lots of experience in databases and web applications. I live and work in Germany. Hi Hakan (I can probably talk in German with you :-)) thanks for volunteering, I have accepted you as a mentor. You can now click on any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Honestly, I was wondering about the Geonames project application. I am not sure (from a license point of view) that we can import Geonames data, as they also require attribution. I *think* the Geonames project is about setting up some sort of tile source that has Geonames data on it,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2008-04-08 Thread Stephen Gower
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: The shorter, the better (sometimes space is limited). So why not, with a small DNS change: openstreetmap.org/credit If we have to attribute at all (I wanna PD map!) I'd prefer the main website to have a link to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
Nick Black wrote: And because they derive from Google Maps, more importantly. I think we should be a bit more careful with such statements. Nowhere on the geonames page do they say that data is, or should be, derived from Google Maps. What? Geonames allows you to move and edit data which

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] GSoC applications are in! MENTORS wanted

2008-04-08 Thread Nick Black
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What? Geonames allows you to move and edit data which is overlaid onto a Google Map. Go to http://www.geonames.org/maps/cities.html and click on a city. You're right, there's a move link there which I had

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse Geocoding

2008-04-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:34:33 +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: There is no „minimal size of data” for the CC-BY-SA to apply. Hence all „viral SA” elements are triggered. Yes, there