Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Zsombor Szabó wrote: > it to receive. I think I have a solution how we could expose it to more > users with OpenMaps for iOS. > How? Just launch OpenMaps, find your favorite bar/pub/restaurant/etc. on the > map, tap on it (yes, in contrast with Maps you can tap on

Re: [OSM-talk] Category: Users who contribute their data in Public domain

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Waters
On 19 December 2010 03:28, Sam Vekemans wrote: > Hi all, > I'm just wondering how many users out their still need to update their > wiki.openstreetmap.org page wit their licence preference. Well, I for one do, but like many users, don't do wiki's much. Is there a how-to page to guide such users t

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/12/15 Steve Bennett : > I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. > Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal > preferences? > > Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* about a road. Can > you tell me, hand on heart, that you would not ta

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 21:46, Zsombor Szabó wrote: > the app installed on their device). They can even follow the recent Twitter > conversation about an OSM element within the app. So if they want to share > with the public that they serve amazing coffee at openmaps://n/957085286 > then they can

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/12/15 Steve Bennett : >> I'm sorry, but no. This is not common practice, nor is it desirable. >> Could we please not give advice which only reflects personal >> preferences? >> >> Fwiw, highway=road is for when you know *nothing* a

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Waters
Cool idea - I can see how it can help the OSM project. There are a couple of things. 1) What to do about users adding the same point, but differently. For example user A goes "I'm at McDonalds, it's a cafe", user B goes I'm at Mac Donalds, it's a fast food restaurant" for the same location. What

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Zsombor Szabó
Guys, thanks. I can work with this feedback. Ken: Currently we support only Twitter. Serge: The goal with this sharing, commenting, checking in to OSM places on Twitter is to create a "buzz" about OSM there and expose it to potential new users. With that said if you open an openmaps:// link yo

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
So, you are saying that you feel OpenStreetMap should reflect the status of the road when the aerial photo was made, rather than the current status? ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced From :mailto:sea...@gmail.com Date :Sun Dec 19 10:17:51 America/Chicag

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 18:01, Zsombor Szabó wrote: > Simone: > > If you see a clickable openmaps:// link somewhere in an iOS app (e.g. > in Twitter for iPhone) and click on it then OpenMaps will launch and > show you that OSM place where (pasted text from above coming) you can > comment on it via

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Waters
Hi, Zsombor, thanks for the reply, and clarifying about chickens. When/how does OSM get edited with the app by the user? (Sorry, not got an Iphone so cannot see for myself :) Earlier in the thread you said "Every user that makes an edit to OSM via the app does it with their own OSM user." Cheer

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:19:03 + "John F. Eldredge" wrote: > So, you are saying that you feel OpenStreetMap should reflect the > status of the road when the aerial photo was made, rather than the > current status? The road in question in the original post was on nearmap imagery which is updat

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how to increase OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Cartinus
On Saturday 18 December 2010 23:28:54 Zsombor Szabó wrote: > Wasn't expecting so poor reception on behalf of the OSM community. No > one commented on the idea of sharing and checking into OSM places on > Twitter with OpenMaps for iOS to increase OSM awareness. > > Does this mean that you don't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread John F. Eldredge
Yes, but seav80 was saying that he or she prefers data made from the aerial view (up to 3 months old, and without some details observable only from the ground) to data recorded by someone going now to the location on the ground. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is m

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at the Bing Termsof Use?

2010-12-19 Thread Simon Poole
"Anthony" writes ... That's probably a combination of the fact that Microsoft doesn't own that right in the first place and the fact that tracing a map doesn't create a derived work. ... That is a very brave statement. It may be true that tracing aerial images (what you probably wanted to st

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread john
Well, in my case, I hadn't responded because I have a BlackBerry Storm rather than an iPhone. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness. >From :mailto:zsom...@gmail.com Date :Sat Dec 18 16:28:54 America/Chicago 20

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread john
I would assume this means that, in order for this app to update OSM, you would need to enter your OSM user ID and password as part of the app's settings. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness. >From :mailto:chi

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Hmm, is Austria not in Europe any more? Or possibly some problem with your > script that there is no entry for it? Sorry, forgot to do it. Now I'm extracting Austria and soon will be present :) > Robert Kaiser Fabio Locati -- Fabio Alessandr

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Katie Filbert
I would be willing to try OpenMaps at some point and thank you for creating it! However, I can't install new iPhone apps currently (1- must delete others & music I don't want; 2 - I'm locked out of iTunes since my account was hacked recently and haven't bothered yet to get it restored; 3

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Adam Fritzler
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: > I would be willing to try OpenMaps at some point and thank you for creating Yes, it looks great! > Another question is what's the difference between the free and the non-free > app?  It's not clear from the descriptions. This confused me

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:04 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > This discussion is simply about the quality level: are you satisfied > with probable information derived from an aerial photo depicting the > situation some years ago, or do you want to insert only information > you verified on the gro

Re: [OSM-talk] Released: OpenMaps for iOS v4.0. An idea how toincrease OSM awareness.

2010-12-19 Thread Katie Filbert
On Dec 19, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Adam Fritzler wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Katie Filbert wrote: I would be willing to try OpenMaps at some point and thank you for creating Yes, it looks great! Another question is what's the difference between the free and the non-free app?

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
For *that* particular imagery, yes. My point is that blindly saying that you shouldn't trace from imagery if you haven't visited the place is not a hard rule. There are a lot of circumstances when tracing is actually OK. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:19 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > So, you are say

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread john
OK, but there will likely be additional details available from visiting the site in person that you wouldn't be able to detect from an aerial view, plus you would be able to tell if the road had been modified since the aerial photo had been taken. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Of course. You can see details on signs and on walls on aerial imagery. I'm not saying that nobody should anymore visit a place that has been traced from aerial imagery. But for Australian aerial imagery like Nearmap's which is very recent and of a high resolution, I think that Australians would d

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-19 Thread john whelan
Just a comment locally someone did a trace and managed to get one end of the road about 100 meters out and connected at the wrong road junction. Took me a while to sort it out. Cheerio John On 19 December 2010 19:18, wrote: > OK, but there will likely be additional details available from visit

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Hope
Fabio, I cannot sign every edit I've ever done over, because I don't have the rights to do so. I can OK many of them, however, that were based purely on my own work, and not CC-BY-SA sources. There was some talk of a tool being made available that would let me specify which were OK by changeset.

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread john whelan
I'm probably in the same state. I suspect the only honest thing to do is to request that all my data be removed. It seems a bit extreme but could that be done? Yes I did agree to the ODBL change but that was taking advice from some one who I now realise was bias and I didn't go through the impli

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 11:28 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > I cannot sign every edit I've ever done over, because I don't have the > rights to do so. I can OK many of them, however, that were based > purely on my own work, and not CC-BY-SA sources. I suspect this is a big issue. Pretty much any ma

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 December 2010 12:53, David Murn wrote: > Because of the impossibility to be able to distinguish whats what, any > user who has ever made a change in this situation will have to have all > their edits removed from the system, to avoid any possibility that one > edit might infringe the rights

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-19 Thread Alan Mintz
I reviewed the subject airport imports in southern CA. I'm surprised that there were only 16 imports in bbox=-122,33,-115,38 given the mentioned 23000 nodes total. Must be other parts of the world that were not well-covered? They are all private facilities, and I tagged them access=private. T