Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-02 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Biber wrote: On Thu, 2 September, 2010 11:22:54 AM, andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com wrote: Besides, there's nothing in the Google Terms of Service which says you may not make use of the facts you learn by using this website. That'd just be silly. Not to mention unconscionable,

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Jane Smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aun Yngve Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.orgwrote: I believe if you are the owner of the data, But what is an owner? Ownership is the lash of the bourgoise. What you own is owned by us all. Properety is theft. Therefore those who steel the map from us the mappers

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Niklas Cholmkvist towardsoss at gmail.com writes: Hello, When I map, sometimes I add sources to my contributions. It could be a bus route relation where I may add the GPS trace I took while riding the bus as the source for the route. Other times if I name a street I may use a

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hi, take the coordinates from Google Earth/Maps. I will not. That is a non-free source, the same reason I do not look/consider Wikimapia(google maps based) or any other proprietary maps. OSM may currently be the freest data collection that exists (since CC-BY-SA-3.0 is legally invalid for OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: take the coordinates from Google Earth/Maps. I will not. That is a non-free source, the same reason I do not look/consider Wikimapia(google maps based) or any other proprietary maps. OSM may

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 1 September 2010 17:40, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: take the coordinates from Google Earth/Maps. I will not. That is a non-free source, the same reason I do not look/consider Wikimapia(google

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:40, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: take the coordinates from Google Earth/Maps. I will not. That is

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Thread Simon Biber
On Thu, 2 September, 2010 11:22:54 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Besides, there's nothing in the Google Terms of Service which says you may not make use of the facts you learn by using this website. That'd just be silly. Not to mention unconscionable, and therefore

[OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-08-31 Thread Niklas Cholmkvist
Hello, When I map, sometimes I add sources to my contributions. It could be a bus route relation where I may add the GPS trace I took while riding the bus as the source for the route. Other times if I name a street I may use a geotagged/geolocated photo of the street sign as a source.(thus

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-08-31 Thread Aun Yngve Johnsen
I believe if you are the owner of the data, you can put any license you care on it and liberate it for use with OSM regardless of chosen license. As long as you state in some way that the data is free for use within OSM or something. brgds Aun Johnsen On 31/08/2010, at 18:46, Niklas