Re: [OSM-talk] volcano craters in auckland - possibly out of copyright map

2010-05-19 Thread Tim McNamara
On 20 May 2010 16:57, Robin Paulson wrote: > i found a map on wikipedia from 1859, which i would assume makes it > out of copyright and thus far game for copying data into osm Fairly safe, in NZ copyright lasts until 50 years after the death of the author. [1] You're probably even safer given tha

[OSM-talk] volcano craters in auckland - possibly out of copyright map

2010-05-19 Thread Robin Paulson
i found a map on wikipedia from 1859, which i would assume makes it out of copyright and thus far game for copying data into osm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AucklandMapHochstetter1859.JPG if so, what would be the best way to view it as an underlay, for adding volcanoes to the map database?

Re: [OSM-talk] closedstreetmap.org

2010-05-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 20-05-10 02:04, SteveC schreef: > If anyone wants the above domain name, let me know as it expires in a month. I'll forward it to my accountmanager at TeleAtlas. Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

[OSM-talk] closedstreetmap.org

2010-05-19 Thread SteveC
If anyone wants the above domain name, let me know as it expires in a month. Yours &c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Welty
i have mapped some trails through the antietam national battlefield, http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=39.47959&lon=-77.73945&zoom=15&layers=B000FTF the upper trail is the Cornfield Trail, and the bottom edge is the Bloody Lane Trail. and here, further south, is the "Union Advance Trail": http

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 May 2010 08:02, Rob Warren wrote: > Historical mapping has some problems that are a bit different from > conventional mapping in that 1) everything is a timestamp and 2) research > people care very much about the data being 'wrong'. While it would be nice for the OSM APIs to natively suppor

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Warren
Hi Kate. I run the Muninn Project (http://blog.muninn-project.org/) which extracts data from First World War scanned archives. I've been lurking on the mailing list for a while now to get some background before asking about this very topic, but you beat me to it. Would anyone be interested in

[OSM-talk] SotM 2010 schedule published - looks great.

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
I know that you have been waiting to see the schedule for State of the Map 2010. And now I know that you will love it. The SotM team has done a spectacular job of soliciting and acquiring a great line-up of speakers and topics. You will want to buy your ticket and book your trip now. http://stat

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 May 2010 22:11, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > I guess you would generally have to adopt the criteria for places in > AU, we did this in Germany and Italy as well. e.g. 999 inhabitants is > far too big for a hamlet in Europe. Towns we are not classifying by > population (on the lower end) but

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-19 Thread pavithran
On 15 May 2010 13:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Adobe has explicitly said in the past that they can't open source it >> because they've used a lot of parts in in that they've licensed from >> somewhere else. > > http://www.adobe.com/de/products/eula/third_party/f

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Aun Johnsen
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:11 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/5/19 Elizabeth Dodd : >> On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: >>> >> But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? >>> > >>> > No. >>> > Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >>> > isolated in te

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-19 Thread Mike Collinson
Comments in-line. At 06:14 PM 19/05/2010, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:42, Mike Collinson wrote: >> Great idea, thanks for taking the initiative on this. I had a go with your >> text and the underlying ideas we used to construct the terms below. > >Great, any id

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-19 Thread Anthony
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:14 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Can you submit copyrighted data if you agreed to the new > Contributor Terms, even if it's under a free license? > Obviously only if it's a free license which is compatible with DbCL. That probably includes CC0 and not much else. _

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 19 May 2010 19:14, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:42, Mike Collinson wrote: >> - Don't put in copyrighted data. It should either be your own work or >> something that there is clear permission to use. > > Perhaps just talk about "data you don't have permission to s

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:42, Mike Collinson wrote: > Great idea, thanks for taking the initiative on this.  I had a go with your > text and the underlying ideas we used to construct the terms below. Great, any idea about what timeframe we might be looking at for rollout of it on the signup form

[OSM-talk] Google/OnStar/GM integration in the Volt

2010-05-19 Thread simon
Interesting article, they are putting way too much in this car: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OnStar-Mobile-for-Android/?kc=rss So the paranoid in me worries that not only does OnStar track your every move, you are also a remote drone for Google ;-) It's also moderately concerning w

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Kate, First, I thought, "Oh, easy, Pompeii[1] and Tsuruga castle[2]. You must see the fantastic Tsuruga castle video by Kinya Inoue[3]" and then I thought, ... umm. There should be a list somewhere? Oh yeah! Best of OSM![4] So, you'll find more there that you will enjoy. We should also rem

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread paul youlten
Winchelsea is a good example. It was founded in 1281 when King Edward I ordered the first planned town in England, based on a grid, to be built to replace "Old Winchelsea" which had been destroyed by a series of storms. You can see grid pattern on OSM: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.9248709

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Joseph Reeves
Hi Kate, I prefer some of the less obvious examples; Peter's Piece Plantation [1] is mentioned in the book "Notes on the chase of the wild red deer in the counties of Devon and Somerset : with an appendix descriptive of remarkable runs and incidents connected with the chase from the year 1780 to

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/19 Elizabeth Dodd : > On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: >> >> But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? >> > >> > No. >> > Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >> > isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on >> > regular

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 19 May 2010 12:41, Kate Chapman wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm attending THATCamp this weekend and would like to talk about > OpenStreetMap. THATCamp is an unconference specifically related to > technology applied to the digital humanities. One area I thought > would be of interest would be histor

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/5/19 Frederik Ramm : > Hi, > > M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> >>> Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >>> isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on >>> regular >>> maps as if they were towns >>> I'm sure that the Argentinians an

[OSM-talk] Historical Mapping Examples?

2010-05-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I'm attending THATCamp this weekend and would like to talk about OpenStreetMap. THATCamp is an unconference specifically related to technology applied to the digital humanities. One area I thought would be of interest would be historical related areas in OpenStreetMap. I was thinking ar

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-19 Thread Markus Lindholm
On 19 May 2010 10:34, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: > jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >> here is a question from one of my friends, >> *what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend?* >> any suggestions? > > Most free : Openmoko. > Best market potential : Android > Best compromise : Maem

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 19 May 2010, you wrote: > >> But all isolated farms are isolated_dwellings, no ? > > > > No. > > Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are > > isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on > > regular maps as if they were towns > > I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-19 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > > here is a question from one of my friends, > *what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend?* > any suggestions? Most free : Openmoko. Best market potential : Android Best compromise : Maemo... Except that Nokia has orphaned Maemo. Best hope from my

Re: [OSM-talk] place=isolated_dwelling approved - adding to mapfeatures

2010-05-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> Some isolated farms (called stations) are as large as a hamlet. They are >> isolated in terms of tens of kms from their neighbours. Some appear on >> regular >> maps as if they were towns >> I'm sure that the Argentinians and the Americans have similar farms. >