Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The one exception is currently Potlatch which is embedded and obviously displays map content. Because Potlatch is embedded, you are encouraged to put any copyright notices you wish in the embedding page. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The attribution was put into the JS file, but I'm looking into why that doesn't display. You probably need a DG file instead. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Regards, Ing. Gert Gremmen, BSc Hey, cool. This is fun. Can we all join in? cheers Richard Fairhurst, MA (Cantab) -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/License-CT-issues-Let-s-not-punish-the-world-s

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: But I also don't know why you three compare the license change to ordinary democratic processes. It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year. ticks off 'Godwin' on the Hyperbole Bingo card cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected under copyright Um, no. The first thing to be protected by copyright was an Old Irish psalter. Is and gabais Fergus dóib daur mór ro-boí for lár ind liss assa frénaib, etc. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Since recently was decided that in NL cookies are subject to explicit permission of the users, I'd think that Openstreetmap provides information on what information and settings are actually used by OSM. Ok then. OSM per se doesn't store

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Markus Lindholm wrote: But there's no need to store them on the client, as all users have to log in the preferences can be stored server-side. Atleast I throw away all cookies when I close the browser. That works for osm.org but not on a third-party Potlatch deployment, where it would require

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: In that case, could it be made to remember custom backgrounds from one session to the next? If I want to use the UK postcode layer, I have to add it manually every time. Sure - as ever, put it in a trac ticket. Stuff mentioned passingly on mailing lists gets forgotten.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: Sorry to be dumb/lazy, and I'm sure you've told me before, but please can you point me at the Potlatch2 trac/svn etc. trac is the same for all of OSM: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ . Make sure to select potlatch2 as the component. And only set the priority to critical if it

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: This may well be my first post to the talk list Brave soul. :) (But welcome, seriously.) Browsing a little with the new license status option of Potlatch 2.2 I'm seeing unfortunately lot of red on the map (and some orange, too). Don't get too disheartened. To take your

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and accepting the new contributor terms

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: I'd appreciated it if you could check with the other OSMF board members, so you then can make an official statement about Michael's post. I'm sure you're doing this for the right reasons, but there's something faintly amusing about the appeals to an

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and accepting the new contributor terms

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker wrote: That's my position and you can take it or leave it. I really don't see how flaming me in this list is helpful to the community. Blimey. It was meant as a good-natured jokey e-mail, a gentle dig at best. But if it helps, the Archbishop of Canterbury's house in Charlbury

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it a temporary file or Derivative Database under ODbL

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: And what do you think a laywer will say when asked when the community using the license has no idea? The community has a perfectly good idea, as indeed you would do if you actually read the licence. ;) Under ODbL you are publicly using a Produced Work from a Derived Database.

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: I think the main symptom was the contents of the left panel disappearing: at this point, I would normally click Save, then (once the Save was complete) click View, then Edit again to start a new changeset. If you can provide steps to reproduce, we can take a look at it.

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: Well, if it is to be this way... ...then maybe it would be a good opportunity for you to help! Why not volunteer to help LWG in its communications with the German community? It seems a shame to lament that things are as usual and not do anything about it. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Apologies if this feature exists in all of the mainstream editing software. JOSM has a MOTD feature. Potlatch doesn't (and won't) because it's always used when embedded within a website which can choose to display whatever message it likes: indeed, osm.org does sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: How should that work - without concrete information posted anywhere? Ok. How do you fancy volunteering to be the person who posts the concrete information, then? You seem to be under the impression that magic communication fairies will crop up and make everything ok. It doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: Maybe you dont understand the role of office-bearers of a 'non-profit' foundation. Sure, they are volunteers, but if they dont have the time to do the job they volunteered for properly, then it only hurts the community they claim to serve. Indeed. And if they don't, you

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: Yeah, sure, I'll just burn some incense, look deep into my crystal ball and guess what everybody has been doing. Why do you need to do that? Why don't you e-mail LWG and say: I think you've been having difficulties with your communications. I'd like to volunteer to be your

Re: [Talk-us] NHD preconverted data - posted

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Supnik wrote: Oh...um, I think I'm getting it. I thought that Potlatch knows where the user is editing because it is scrolled to that location...e.g. my idea was that if a user could provide only a URL for a type of data (e.g. a URL for NHD high res water bodies) then Potlatch could

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 2.2 is live. New features include: - Greatly improved vector background layer support (load shapefiles in the background and bring elements through one-by-one), including reprojection from OSGB - Control-drag an area to select multiple elements -

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I was invited to join a CC-by-SA project, was aware of which licence was appropriate for me at the time of joining, and will not be part of the obscure and doubtbul licence project. Fair enough. As of today, contributions to OSM are ODbL+CT only. Guess that's you

[Talk-GB] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 2.2 is live. New features include: - Greatly improved vector background layer support (load shapefiles in the background and bring elements through one-by-one), including reprojection from OSGB - Control-drag an area to select multiple elements -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker wrote: A major purpose of the CTs is to ensure that all the data remaining in OSM is suitable for re-licensing under any Free and Open license without the need for further checks. No, that hasn't been the case since Contributor Terms 1.2 were proposed in November 2010 and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(continuing from previous message, d'oh) In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would need to check existing data and delete it if so. See also CT 1.2.x 1b which explicitly envisages this possibility: if we suspect that any contributed data is incompatible, (in the sense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: However your argument above completely fails to refer to Clause 2 of the CT's (and Robert Whittaker wrote similarly) Yes. It's my belief that 2 onwards have to be read in the context of 1a/1b. There would be no point having 1a/1b if that were not the case; and my reading of

Re: [Talk-GB] Customised Maps (was OSM Analysis New Data and bot)

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: another email I missed. d'oh. this also sounds exceedingly good - any idea where I should look to make sure I don't miss it? http://kothic.org/ cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: Richard, can't we just live and let live? You're profile has the wise words to avoid endless discussions and go do stuff. I think it is possible since we recently dropped a discussion that was going nowhere, at your suggestion [5]. I respected your request - live and let live. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Eric Marsden wrote: Reading odbl.de, 60% of users have accepted the new contributor terms in Europe (40% in the USA, the proportion worldwide is not shown). There 417k users. So (extrapolating) 200k have not accepted the new terms and 190k have accepted. Hopefully the decision on whether to

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: Richard can you give the following URLs a go? Thanks for setting that up - really encouraging. But good news and bad, I'm afraid. The good news is that P2 can get the files from the server no problem. The bad news is that Ordnance Survey appear to have broken it. When I was

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Navigon to Sell OpenStreetMap POIs Packages for PNDs

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: That means we can mix it with OSM, but not contribute it back to OSM because the new contributor terms don't allow using ODbL licensed data. The standard Contributor Terms don't have to be the only Contributor Terms. cheers Richard -- View this message in

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote:  I refer mainly to reprojecting from OSGB to WGS84, which required manual tweaks to every .prj file [1]. Would this need doing before upload, or is it something that is now (but not deployed yet) automated within Potlatch 2? Potlatch 2's improved (not deployed yet) shapefile

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: I'm not very familiar with projections so a little more clarity would be useful for me. As potlatch 'understands' OSGB, is loading an OSBG shp file any more expensive than loading a WGS84 shp file? A little. P2 has to reproject each point on first load. But we're using an

Re: [OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: This issue not just one person's hobby horse - its an issue that is very topical and very relevant. Think you're missing an IMHO in there... and that's rather the point. I can list plenty of things that I personally think are more topical and relevant. I'm sure others on this list

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: ITO are probably not the best people to set up maintain simple mirrors of existing content. Are there not 100 sites where a mirror could be set up and maintained? Why is the OS site not sufficient anyway? The OS site a) offers download-only access behind an e-mail

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: If this is what you want then it clearly isn't a simple FTP mirror Let's not overcomplicate things. :) All that is needed is that someone a) downloads all the OS VectorMap District files b) unzips them c) places the unzipped shapefiles on an FTP server somewhere d) copies

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Graham Jones wrote: In my day job I look after quite a few decision making processes to help our organisation make difficult decisions. I always say that I will have failed if at the end of the day we have to resort to a vote to decide what to do That's good. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Airspace Co.

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[sorry, just noticed this one] Lennard wrote: the editor can hide all nodes with a certain tag Potlatch doesn't do it, but it seems it's a feature just waiting for a developer. Potlatch can do it fairly trivially; just give it a MapCSS stylesheet that doesn't render said tag. cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Fyi we are doing some investigation in ITO into adding OS VectorDistrict 'road missing' data on the OS Locator tiles or possibly onto an alternative map layer. The aim being to make tracing of roads easier [...] At a later stage one might consider extending the bot to also

Re: [OSM-talk] Kothic JS - a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Komяpa wrote: Glad to announce the first release of Kothic JS map rendering engine. There's live demo on http://kothic.org/js/ This is seriously amazing. This is possibly the first thing that brings the promise of it's open source, make your own maps into the realms of possibility for your

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Saw a new Onward Travel Poster at Oxford. Nice map. Presumably a similar one at most other railway stations. Lots of detail, including some footpaths that have a very familar shape... Nice attribution. To OS. Yes. This is supposedly a national initiative, but I've only

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Stewart wrote: So again you are basically arguing that we should avoid completing the map because having a patchy incomplete map is what brings in contributors? No, I'm not. I'm arguing that completing the map by survey creates a community who will go on to improve and maintain the

Re: [Talk-GB] Customised Maps (was OSM Analysis New Data and bot)

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: setting up mapnik and all its dependencies is quite daunting This week I've seen something that gives near-Mapnik quality rendering with, hopefully, near-trivial installation, configuration and system demands. I think one comment on IRC was zomg which succinctly sums it up.

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Stewart wrote: This is no doubt true. But surely having an area that has been *surveyed* to 100% road name completion is just as likely to put off any new contributors as one that was *traced* to 100%? (i.e. not very in my opinion) I don't think so. Again, the difference is that you're

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: I can imagine the little M stickers being printed now... For those curious as to what these maps look like, here's one I photographed last week: http://www.systemeD.net/temp/onward_travel_falmouth.jpg (4.6Mb file) Compare and contrast with http://osm.org/go/erU5Lvdkm- .

Re: [Talk-GB] Onward travel posters

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter J Stoner wrote: Thank you for the photo. It is the first of the new posters I have seen so it has helped me to check the Traveline and NextBuses references! :) They're good posters, I like them (though the cartography is a bit... utilitarian, shall we say?). This use of OSM shows

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: But you are leaving out the third possibility which is an area stuck at 40% completion, which doesn't have a vibrant community either. Oh, indeed. But if we were to put as much effort into marketing OSM and improving our tools as we do into writing and indeed discussing bots,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations.

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Some of us try to minimize the number of refused CT (about 400) but I have the strong feeling that those are mainly found in the old core of the first 1000 of OSM mappers, the founders that were interested in real free data. Wut? AFAIK the three contributors with the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: Yes, I attended to previous LWG teleconference and I asked for LWG, as a committee, to enter into direct negotiations with me, an individual mapper. The draft minutes are online [1]. Thanks for the link, which I see contains your conditions. As I know there are people on this

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Stewart wrote: So I've got no objection to the proposed bot. If it can be used on a restricted area There is a section of the relevant wiki page where people can request areas: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS_bot#List_of_requested_places Note the column for Links to consultation

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Coast wrote: Could you cite the evidence? Have you Merkins sorted out how you're classifying roads and tagging their numbers yet? (if that's just general incompetence rather than import-related malaise feel free to correct me ;) ) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Graham Stewart wrote: This keeps getting raised and I'm not sure how true it is. If you import data into an area that already has an active community, you likely won't damage the community (though you may piss them off). OTOH, you probably don't _need_ to import data because there's already an

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Analysis New Data and bot

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: According to OSM Mapper Worcester has been developing nicely over a couple of years. Fyi, the most active mapper is this srbrook. Mapper since: 14 October 2009 at 20:30 (over 1 year ago). Description: I'm Steve and have been mapping in the south Worcester, UK area since

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Quintin Driver wrote: Richard, have you or any of the LWG members done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and / or Cloudmade ? Wow. I'm not an LWG member and I've never done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and/or CloudMade. Where on earth did that come from and what on earth has it got to do

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: On 07/06/11 14:37, Richard Fairhurst wrote: You don't need to put stuff into OSM to make it mashable-uppable. Most competent licences will have a Collective Work/Database provision to enable this. While this this strictly true it is sometimes hard to associate external records

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: Straw man. [...] Sigh. [...] It is ridiculous [...] I guess I should not surprised you can't see the benefits [...] This seems to be a common thread of your arguments - you make wild claims Fair enough. It's fairly evident you don't see stuff on the same wavelength as I do.

[OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm led to believe that people have been issuing LWG with private lists of demands that they want met before they will consent to ODbL+CT. Could I ask that said people have the courtesy to post their demands here, too? It would be a shame if the suspicion arose that the process is being swayed

Re: [Talk-GB] OpenKent, OSM coverage estimation

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: With complete lists of addresses, we can go and find exact positions of these services. I am still unsure if this is compatible with the relicensing. If you go out and find the exact position of a service, with a piece of paper and a pen (or a GPS or whatever), that's your

Re: [OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled

2011-05-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: Any thoughts or widely accepted customs regarding this? I'd use a length of either railway=disused or railway=abandoned. IMX it only takes a year or so for a disused railway, often called OOU in the UK (out of use), to become unsuitable for trains to turn up and go. On

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Potlatch 2 et alignement de points

2011-05-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pmz a écrit: Je viens de détecter une nouvelle victime de potlatch2: la frontière sud de la commune de la bacconière (53). J'en ai profité pour ouvrir un ticket à ce sujet ! Ce n'est pas victime de potlatch2, c'est victime de newbie. Meme si vous ne pouvez pas créer un patch pour Potlatch 2,

[Talk-GB] The Severn Way

2011-05-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, As some of you might know, I used to work for British Waterways editing their consumer website, Waterscape.com. We also put together a bunch of other waterway websites while I was there, one of which was for the Severn Way long-distance path. Unfortunately, what with public sector

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: All we need is a phisical list, and an access list. Um, we have that already. For physical tags, we have: highway=footway, or highway=cycleway, or highway=bridleway, or highway=track See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging. If it quacks like a

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: Also, I have no idea how to take this to talk-gb, except by simply replying there not here, and breaking up a string of responses. I did however justify why it's here, which your welcome to read. I'm still struggling some what with getting these replies in the right place,

Re: [Talk-GB] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: Also, I have no idea how to take this to talk-gb, except by simply replying there not here, and breaking up a string of responses. I did however justify why it's here, which your welcome to read. I'm still struggling some what with getting these replies in the right place,

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: [...] Please take this to talk-gb. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Tracks-and-there-place-in-society-tp6389100p6389114.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Talk-GB] C roads

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I note an increasing number of roads tagged with ref=Cnumber: http://osm.org/go/euF7qf93- http://osm.org/go/eu6CM0IS- etc. Leaving aside for now the question of sourcing, I feel a little uneasy about these being rendered on the map. Anyone using the map as, well, a

Re: [Talk-GB] C roads

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kev js1982 wrote: Some C (and U) roads are signed apparently - see http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/ Indeed - a tiny number, and of the list at http://www.cbrd.co.uk/c-roads/signs.shtml, quite a few seem to be temporary or works signs (i.e. more for local council edification than for general

Re: [Talk-us] DB fixer?

2011-05-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/28397519/history This way seems to have been reduced to only those nodes at intersections, obviously wrong given the curves in the road. Can anyone explain what this DB fixer is and how much damage it's done? Back in the

Re: [Talk-us] 2010 NAIP imagery finally available via WMS

2011-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote: Thanks. I also got it working by changing {zoom}/{x}/{y} to $z/$x/$y after examining some other Potlatch URLs. It would be nice to get this into the standard Background list for P2 one of these days. Happy to do that. Could you give me a lat/long bounding box for

Re: [OSM-talk] Ipad and openstreetmap.org

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: I was wondering if anyone is working on Ipad support for openstreetmap.org? AIUI gesture (touch-screen) support is in the latest development builds of OpenLayers, and will be available on osm.org when they make an official release. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 06/05/2011 08:13, Nick Whitelegg wrote: Am I right that you can embed P2 into other websites and connect it to the live API? Yep. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch_2/Deploying_Potlatch_2 . cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list

Re: [Talk-GB] Britain's historic waterways 'access' the digital age

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin wrote: Sounds like they are trying to reinvent OSM, but for waterways only. Perhaps people with particular knowledge of waterways in OSM might wish to contact them? See comments at

Re: [Talk-GB] New British Waterways map; why not use OSM?

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: I completely agree that the tools aren't there yet, but could they not have used OSM for their database? In theory, yes. But there are huge costs to that, too. The effort required to work with the community, and in particular, through the tagging minefield. The extra

Re: [Talk-GB] New British Waterways map; why not use OSM?

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: It does however seem disappointing for them to be duplicating some a lot of work. I agree that the OSM data is not perfect however it is good and could be even better very easily. AIUI they're not duplicating work. This is a towpath condition project, not a map the

Re: [Talk-GB] New British Waterways map; why not use OSM?

2011-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Perhaps you missed this part of my post (quoting BW): A pilot project in London is already: mapping comprehensive data on access points, barriers, facilities and public transport as well as information on the surface type, average width and

Re: [Talk-GB] On footpaths

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: The general practice in this country is to use footway for paved paths in cities and path for muddier countryside ones (or, perhaps, through city parks). Um, no it isn't. There is absolutely no consensus for using =path in the countryside rather than =footway. I strongly

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: It would be great if we could somehow reboot and arrive at something sane again. Superb posting. +1 to all of that. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/New-Logo-in-the-Wiki-tp6319413p6321156.html Sent from the General

Re: [Talk-GB] 'couldn't load map' in Potlatch2

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Anyone else getting this and have any other information or work-rounds? It's actually an API issue rather than a P2 issue. P2 is simply saying either the API refused to send any data or I couldn't get any response from the API. Tom has recently committed a change that will

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jochen Topf wrote:  Don't be so hard on the Strategic Working Group. After months of talks they have actually done something! I think we should celebrate that! After dipping their toes into many important subjects for the future of OSM they have chosen the logo change as the most important

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Dixon wrote: OK, I've updated the tagging of all the National Byway relations listed on the wiki to network=rcn, and also updated the wiki to reflect the changes. I suppose I ought to go out and fill in some of the local gaps now! Thumbs up to all of that. :) cheers Richard --

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Dixon wrote: Richard - are you prepared to humour the rest of us and give this a go? Well, I can't stop you! If I were someone wanting the National Byway to render right now, I'd tag it as rcn, not ncn, because I believe if it quacks like a duck, tag it like a duck and the quality and

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Does anyone object if longish-distance routes (eg the round-Berkshire route) are now coded as rcn (rather than lcn), given that Sustrans have moved away from making a distinction between their national and regional routes? Personally I think that'd be a great improvement.

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: If we keep the route=bicycle I would suggest network=ncn, name = National Byway and therefore bring it into line with all the other national cycling routes in every other country in OSM. Strongly disagree. But then you know that. :) I think the root (route?) problem is

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: What tagging would you expect us to use within OSM to identify something as being part of this network? Just route=bicycle, name=National Byway should be enough IMO. I wouldn't really call the National Byway a network - it's a circular route with the odd spur - but I guess

Re: [Talk-GB] National Byway rendering on OpenCycleMap

2011-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I can't see any obvious instances of this tagging in the database at present. Can you give me some example ways? Ah, well, if you're asking about how it's tagged at present: it's grouped in _relations_ (as cycle routes usually are) which have tags route=bicycle,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: [some hard-to-follow stuff] Gert - could you quote in the same way that everyone else does, please? i.e. no top-posting, snip the bits of the message you're replying to, prefix each line of quoting with , line-wrap your quotes properly. It

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: So do the produced map tiles (a Produced Work under the ODbL, I think, or am I mistaken there to?) have to be distributed under the ODbL also - or can you use any distribution terms as long as it has attribution - or what? ODbL 4.3 allows you to distribute Produced Works

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: To answer my own question - I guess that 'reasonably calculated to make...' suggests you should include an attribution notice and ask downstream users to respect it - although it doesn't mandate any particular choice of licence. So we would still have the attribution

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker wrote: I've just declined the new OSM Contributor Terms (CTs), because I've previously made edits based on OS OpenData In which case, I would appreciate it that if you carry out any future non-OS-derived edits, you do so from another account with assent to the Contributor

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: On 18/04/2011 16:59, Richard Fairhurst wrote: In which case, I would appreciate it that if you carry out any future non-OS-derived edits, you do so from another account with assent to the Contributor Terms. Did you mean *non*-OS edits? If so could you expand on that please

Re: [Talk-GB] OSM Contributor Terms vs OS OpenData Licence

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: So I take it that now I've signed I can't contribute any more OS stuff? I believe you can and am continuing to use OpenData as often as I did before (that's not very often). Robert believes you can't and has explained why in this thread. there do seem to be slightly

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: There is zero chance that any large organisation would try to use OSM's CC-BY-SA licensed map data and think that they would get away with it. I agree with you here FSVO large. I doubt we have to worry about Google, Tele Atlas or Navteq consistently and deliberately using OSM data

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: What's not clear is how the ODbL+DbCL licence would help this situation. It would at least straightforwardly permit the publishing of map tiles without any attribution or share-alike requirement Disagree. (This has been gone over ad nauseam on legal-talk, I'm just pointing it

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kai Krueger wrote: If I am not mistaken, you your self have said that you would rather use Ordinance Survey data then OpenStreetMap data, despite being an absolute OSM enthusiast. And if I remember correctly, this was not only due to licensing, but also because of ease of use? Indeed, but

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote:  So the proposal is now: maxspeed:type=GB:national_single|GB:national_dual|GB:motorway|GB:restricted I may be missing the point on all of this, but: Why are we doing this? In OSM we optimise for the mapper, not the data consumer. That means we tag exceptions, not

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote:  There is also the difficulty of identifying which country you are in Nominatim seems to manage. :) There is current the problem that no one has actually created a look- up table for the values that can be used by downstream systems Ah, now, this is where we have

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: Admittedly I have no motorways in the area I map, but I have added lots of maxspeed tags recently to try and eliminate (or reduce the number of) mapdust/skobbler missing speed limit bugs. Gah! Doing that on national speed limit roads is surely tagging for the renderer writ

Re: [Talk-GB] Rebooting the NAPTAN import?

2011-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stuart Grimshaw wrote: Some routes stop after a certain time of day, or they follow a different route at weekends. They follow a different route for 1 journey before or after school and they go to different stops because of roadworks. To keep this information accurate you really would

Re: [OSM-talk] April fools that should have been

2011-04-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Project of the Week: Mother's Day. Map your mother. As, of course, amenity=your_mum. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/April-fools-that-should-have-been-tp6234058p6234432.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: My first intention was to ignore this message but I cannot Anyone round here ever seen the film 'Groundhog Day'? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Okay-this-is-just-cool-Lockport-NY-tp6225128p6227765.html Sent from the General

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