At the risk of repeating others' words, I strongly encourage participants
in this conversation to review the draft attribution guideline (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Draft_Attribution_Guideline) and
previous conversations regarding attribution on this list. It would be hard
to overstate th
I'm surprised to see that this conversation has made it past the weekend.
Since it has, let me add my voice to those suggesting that encoding OLC in
the database (or any other values that can be algorithmically derived from
geometry) makes very little sense. I'm grateful to everyone who has already
Like many conversations about Wikidata tagging, I think this one suffers
from varying levels of stringency -- and perhaps letting the perfect become
the enemy of the good.
At the risk of stating the obvious, it is often the case that Wikidata's
conceptual model of places does not exactly match Ope
Google indexing a site, and your use of that index to find the site, does
not taint the interaction between you and that site. If I trespass on
private property on my way to buy groceries, the property owner might have
a claim against me. But it is unlikely that they have any claim on my
newly-purc
Steve, thanks for pushing on this. We had gotten in touch with Etsy about
the missing attribution when we first noticed it, but your raising the
issue helped to unblock those conversations.
Etsy tells me that appropriate attribution should now be in place. There is
one older product whose push not
These critiques seem to be beginning to develop themes explored more fully
and famously by James Scott in _Seeing Like A State_. In it, he explores
the implications of government efforts at systematization, including the
original French cadastre and some German forest management projects.
I'm afra
> As for OSM ID number, this falls under the so-called "Fairhurst Doctrine"
> and would not be considered "Substantial" under ODbL if and only if the
> community agrees and the OSMF endorses.
At the risk of splitting hairs, I don't think the community/OSMF's
sense of the "substantial" threshold is
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