On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:02:26PM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
From what I understand, under the new license, any dataset that we
build in-house based on the geometry or tags of data in the
transportation layer, which we choose to release to our client or
other parties, would have to be
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:49:18PM +1100, Joseph Gentle wrote:
You say 'everyone else is worse off' if they use a PD map. It seems
like the bus company wins - they have more passengers. The passengers
win - they can learn about the busses more easily. The environment
wins (less cars on the
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:47:00PM +1200, Joseph Gentle wrote:
So share-alike itself actually ain't that helpful if the person
doesn't really want to contribute back.
But if you use community pressure, rather than trying to get medieval
on their licensing ass, you can get a great result
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:18:24AM +1200, Joseph Gentle wrote:
I understand this, and I find it a step backwards. But that's probably
just me.
Perhaps linux could require that all applications that made system
calls were GPL licensed too. Surely that would increase GPL adoption;
and thus
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:31:54PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Good luck steaming up community pressure for Apple opening up on stuff
that they have taken from the PD. It is not going to happen.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/
Most software on that list, sir, is
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:54:50PM +0200, Gustav Foseid wrote:
So, given your ideal license: I decide to make a pub crawl and making a
mashup showing the pubs I visited and my rating of them.To make sure that I
placed the pubs at the right place I had a GPS in my pocket, and had gpx
trace of
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
their aerial imagery from. - Ed Parsons once said that Google had to pay
extra for traceable aerial imagery as the normal licenses would not
have been suitable for using the material in an application like
MapMaker. If none of
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:30:05PM +0200, Chris Browet wrote:
OSMXAPI can do selective downloads for low zoom levels:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi
In what part of the spec do you see that, exactly?
Not sure if it is a good idea to mix data from osmxapi in an editor to
Hoi,
Tijdens de meeting een paar weken terug was een van de vraagjes hoe
merkaartor nu juist met geheugen omging. Daar had ik eigenlijk geen goed
antwoord op (nog niet trouwens). Maar een paar dagen poste een van onze
gebruikers op de mailing list dat hij merkaartor op een laptop met 32MB
of ram
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:06:27AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
It's more than not strictly correct: It's plain broken. It breaks my
reply-to-author function. Everytime I want to use it, I have to
manually fix the recipients.
Well, and it breaks my expectation of what reply means in the
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:39:09AM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
* Java ME based for maximum cross platform support.
While I'm not familiar with the different flavours of Java, there's
unfortunately no official edition for the Nokia N8x0 devices. Instead,
there's another port called
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 05:22:17PM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
My fairly accurate Garmin 60CSx is still wildly inaccurate when I
position myself at the corner of a building and try to measure its
dimensions since the building and the surrounding blocks most GPS
signals. So more
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:31:26PM +0200, Knut Arne Bjørndal wrote:
Stephan Schildberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The rendererd arrow icons for oneways have a different appearance in
Osmarender.
its icon has more contrast
oneway = -1
those icons are pale and longer
oneway = 1
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 04:57:17PM +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hello everyone,
Have thought of an approach to make countryside OSM mapping using phones
with inbuilt GPS (N95, etc) easy to the end user.
A user could survey their walk using an N95 or similar, and then, using a
very
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
fwiw location-wise I would prefer somewhere more easily and cheaply
accessible by most people that would like to come than I expect GC
would be.
Being a bit of a tree-hugger at heart, I'd prefer somewhere in
mainland
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:12:19PM +0100, Grant Slater wrote:
Nowadays, there are plenty of airlines that allow you to offset
the carbon output of your trip. I am not yet aware of train companies
offering the same, so the treehugger in you might still prefer to fly?
Sorry,, sent this to the wrong mailing list.
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:43:19PM +0100, Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote:
You _don't know_ where the edge of the rendered road will be but that
it'll lie within a certain zone. Thus you infect the edge of the abutted
area with that
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:40:42PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
in options, choose 'Aerial - OpenAerialMap' as background and you'll be
fine
hmm, i'm slightly baffled by that. the oam coverage for nz is
appalling at best and as an aside, i'd be very surprised if it was
better
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 08:03:16AM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
I am not local, but the openstreetmap.org data at the north side of the
canal does not seem to match what is on the imagery? More specifically
the raster of streets seems out of place.
The OSM data in OAM is 6 months out
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:25:50AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
OTH I don't know much about AS3 so I can't say whether it's much better in
this regard, but from a quick scan of it, I'd say it was. I think the main
problem is the likely-hood of an opensource player being available for it.
AS3
Chris Browet has been working on getting Yahoo map support in
Merkaartor. His first implementation downloaded tiles directly
from Yahoo. On advice from the OSM community we disabled this
since it was felt this would go against the Terms of Usage of Yahoo :
we had to use the flash of javascript API
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 01:35:26PM +0300, SteveC wrote:
http://geo.topf.org/comparison/index.html?mt0=googlemapmt1=mapniklon=-0.343705lat=39.48158z=17
Is it just me or does this link not work in ie7?
cu bart
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On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:19:15PM +0100, 80n wrote:
If you publish OpenStreetMap data you can satisfy the attribution
requirement of the license by linking to or referencing
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Attribution;
Discuss.
+1.
cu bart
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +0200, Axel von Matern wrote:
Is there a easy way to get my OSM data into Illustrator?
Merkaartor includes a convert-to-svg option using the
osmarender stylesheet. Unfortunatly the version as released will
not give you the ability to actually save that svg. But
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:56:40PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
my back and leave if you were to win. I'd just quietly grumble and
point out my ethical superiority.
I think it is not helpfull to claim ethical superiority in this
debate. For the record : there is, in my opinion, nothing
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:50:48AM +, SteveC wrote:
No, the total opposite.
We only found out about some of the implications of certain use cases,
and how it makes some use a bit easier, when we sat down with Jordan
in a cafe and threw around ideas and scenarios.
Please don't try
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:20:02PM +0100, Bernd Raichle wrote:
(a) the direction is too easily changed, sometimes by mistake
... because none of the current OSM editors show direction- or
side-related tags explicitly.
Merkaartor does for the direction related tags it understands.
I need to
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I'm a bit unhappy about needlessly inflating the importance of the
direction of ways. Long-term, I would actually like to get rid of the
direction and express everything in relations. The reasons for this
are
Hehe. The last time I
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:24:12PM +0100, wiseLYNX wrote:
-- -- -- -- -- highway = service
Tree Tree Tree Tree amenity = park
err... leisure=park
err... is a line of trees a park?
it ususally is just a line of trees. this piture:
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:30:07PM +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
i think landuse = row_of_trees or whatever was suggested, is a hideous
abuse of the landuse tag. landuse isn't there as a dumping ground for
things that taggers can't be bothered to categorise properly
I agree.
there is a tag
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:12:03PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
- Private roads and driveways
What, about their presence or absence? Surely whether they are there or
not is a fairly clear fact. They can be marked access=private to
denote that there's no right of way.
Well, I know a
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:52:55PM +, David Earl wrote:
On 08/02/2008 16:43, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
-- -- -- -- -- highway = service
Tree Tree Tree Tree amenity = park
err... leisure=park
err... is a line of trees a park?
cu bart
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:59:46PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I don't get it : you go on about how license such and such is
possibly unenforceable and then you propose moral guidelines
that are 100% guaranteed not enforceable. I fail to see progress.
Well my position is the enlightened
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:29:33AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Well, if your definition of better includes open, then no.
Sometimes when talking about OSM I say provocatively that we're so
ruthlessly pragmatic that we would even switch to Oracle if someone
gave us the stuff for free and it
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:20:52AM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Sure, but it's possible to be an open geodata kind of guy without
being a free software kind of guy. Just because I'm insistent about
the cleanliness of our map data doesn't mean I want to give up my Mac
and all the
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:29:55PM +, Nick Black wrote:
Odd advice from a mailing list of an _open_ source/data/whatever project.
Not if you want to make a better map for OSM.
Well, if your definition of better includes open, then no.
a better perspective. At least for that one there
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 09:29:16AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I agree. It is however again one of the problems where different
relations will need different actions - when a way in a route relation
is split, both new ways need to be members, but when a way in a turn
restriction relation is
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