Re: [OSM-talk] Windows, end users and OpenStreetMap suggestions please

2019-03-05 Thread John Whelan
Looking at it there are technical solutions that would work but they all require some expertise. Probably OSMand under an Android emulator would be the simplest for an end user to use and even then I find some of the functionality of OSMand difficult to use sometimes. For native Windows 10 u

Re: [OSM-talk] Windows, end users and OpenStreetMap suggestions please

2019-03-05 Thread Andy Townsend
If you're looking for something offline, then one of the Garmin options might work.  Whilst they're primarily designed to complement Garmin devices (handholds, satnavs, etc.) you could just use them standalone, load OSM data in and just search for stuff.There are plenty of Garmin /GPS forums on th

Re: [OSM-talk] Windows, end users and OpenStreetMap suggestions please

2019-03-05 Thread Morten Lange via talk
Hi, The degree of userfriendlyness can be discussed, but I'd like to mention the followig possibilities: * Overpass Turbo, -    e.g.:  http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/GEt    (Search for your location to show results from there)    -Also links directly from right hand side of pages such as : 

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-05 Thread Simon Poole
Hi Benoît My expectation was and is that we are not going to fundamentally change the requirements, but simply be more prescriptive for more use cases. just as you outline. The only case where I currently think it might be necessary to find something "new" are static (aka non-panable and zoomable

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 3/5/19 9:37 AM, althio wrote: > As a test bench last month, we (people from OpenStreetMap France) have > tried to go the other route:  > "let us display as much information as reasonably possible within > attributions, for data, tiles, hosting and display (in French)". A long, long time ag

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-05 Thread althio
Richard, Simon, all, I am very happy with the current requirements and I think they don't need to be updated. Maybe the Attribution guidance as in Licence_and_Legal_FAQ can indeed be expanded, with some examples of "Dos" and "Don'ts" So I very much look forward LWG's next work https://wiki.osmfound

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-05 Thread Ineiev
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 06:12:09PM +0100, Simon Poole wrote: > > Am 03.03.2019 um 12:54 schrieb Ineiev: > > ... > > So, when someone violates that license when using the work of > > those contributors, any of them may sue the violator, mayn't they? > > As the user is operating on a licence from t