[OSM-talk] NEW GPX Optimizer online!

2014-05-24 Thread Stefano Cudini
hello I just made ​​a simple service to optimize GPX tracks / KML reducing the number of points without losing quality of the track. Using this algorithm: http://goo.gl/uRMh that looks good to me. Although probably the scrollbar to adjust the precision could be better with logarithmic or exponenti

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Christian, (shortening the last message to comment on some parts only) Am 24.05.2014 16:04, schrieb Christian Quest: > BANO is not designed to be used as an import source for OSM. > It uses sources (opendata, cadastre) that can be imported in OSM. > These sources have been used over the past y

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Christian Quest
2014-05-24 12:58 GMT+02:00 Peter Wendorff : > Hi Christian, > The BANO data is licensed under ODbl, but the database does not conform > to the Contributor terms, right? > > That's why importing or adding it to OSM is not possible IMHO. > > BANO is not designed to be used as an import source for O

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Simon Poole
Peter We just had this discussion, and as was pointed out during it, it -is- possible to import ODbL licensed data (assuming that all the other boxes wrt imports have been ticked) from a legal point of view with respect to the CTs. This does not imply that it is desirable or not in a more genera

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05/24/2014 11:57 AM, Christian Quest wrote: > It would be really great if this dataset could be added to Nominatim to > extend its geocoding capabilities in France where we only have around 2M > addresses currently. I think that Nominatim already has a built-in process where you can take T

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Christian, The BANO data is licensed under ODbl, but the database does not conform to the Contributor terms, right? That's why importing or adding it to OSM is not possible IMHO. Adding it to (the osm installation of) nominatim on the other hand is a bad idea, I think: IMHO nominatim.openstree

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

2014-05-24 Thread Christian Quest
I'm happy to announce that we have finished our first building phase of the BANO (Base d'Adresses Nationale Ouverte) the first french adresses dataset available under an open license (ODbL). It contains data from: - OSM - available opendata datasets - automatically collected cadastre data The fir