Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-06 Thread Mike Dupont
I would like to make this more complex, for my edits outside of Kosovo, I dont see any problem letting you re-license the data, so feel free. mike On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Jo wrote: > It would indeed be great if we could use an arbitrary version of an object > to continue to build upon. N

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-06 Thread Ian Sergeant
Andrew Harvey wrote on 06/09/2011 07:37:05 PM: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jo wrote: > > It would indeed be great if we could use an arbitrary version of an object > > to continue to build upon. Now, I have to start all over on each object that > > was touched by somebody who didn't agre

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Jo wrote: > It would indeed be great if we could use an arbitrary version of an object > to continue to build upon. Now, I have to start all over on each object that > was touched by somebody who didn't agree (yet) to the CTs, which is > annoying, as it disrupts the

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-05 Thread Jo
It would indeed be great if we could use an arbitrary version of an object to continue to build upon. Now, I have to start all over on each object that was touched by somebody who didn't agree (yet) to the CTs, which is annoying, as it disrupts the entire history. Jo 2011/9/5 Ian Sergeant > > I

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-05 Thread Felix Hartmann
On 01.09.2011 08:19, Michael Kugelmann wrote: On 31.08.2011 10:44, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I would go so far as to say, don't delete *anything* until legally you absolutely have to. I would like to somehow modyfy this statement: we should replace the data not delete it! So please remap the info

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-04 Thread Russ Nelson
Simon Poole writes: > It is clearly the easier, pragmatic and sensible thing to do to simply > accept the CTs. It is clearly the easier, pragmatic,[1] and sensible thing to simply accept public domain contributions to OSM. We've accepted them in the past (and relicensed under CC-By-SA). What is

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-04 Thread Ian Sergeant
I wrote: > To address your question specifically, what happens to data placed in the > public domain by the author on the wiki, who then specifically declines > the CT? Well in the first case, if the edits are just a trivial > modification to a fully CT-compliant version - I'd say just hide >

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-04 Thread Russ Nelson
Robert Whittaker (OSM) writes: > This ambiguity is presumably at least one of the reasons why LWG don't > feel they're able to accept arbitrary PD declarations. If they can't accept a PD declaration, then they can't accept the CT. If they can't accept "This data is in the public domain", then th

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:34 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 3 September 2011 19:12, Simon Poole wrote: >> It is clearly the easier, pragmatic and sensible thing to do to simply >> accept the CTs. > > Hardly, the easier, pragmatic and sensible thing to do is just use > CC-by-SA then you don't need to t

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > Richard Fairhurst writes: >  > [follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda] >  > >  > Russ Nelson wrote: >  > > What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is >  > > in the public domain? >  > >  > See >  > http://lists

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Tobias Knerr
Simon Poole wrote: > there are further "minor" points that would have to be considered, for > example voting rights on future license changes. I don't see any problem here. There is a definition of "active contributors" in the CT which does not mention the CT or any of the licenses, just the act

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread John Smith
On 3 September 2011 19:12, Simon Poole wrote: > This is really the wrong list for this discussion, but as I've pointed out > before > there are further "minor" points that would have to be considered, for > example > voting rights on future license changes. Obviously you could simply assume > tha

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Simon Poole
This is really the wrong list for this discussion, but as I've pointed out before there are further "minor" points that would have to be considered, for example voting rights on future license changes. Obviously you could simply assume that all PD contributors don't care, I'm just not quite sur

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 9/3/2011 4:38 AM, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: One would also need to add something along the lines of "And I'm reasonably sure that no-one else has any copyright claims over my contributions that would prevent OSMF re-distributing them under the relevant licenses." I hope you realize that

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 3 September 2011 05:03, Russ Nelson wrote: > The first is a contract of adhesion: "Here's my > work; I renounce any copyright claims over it." The OSMF has the > choice of accepting that contract or rejecting it, just as it does the > contract formed by agreeing to the Contributor Terms. I don'

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 September 2011 14:03, Russ Nelson wrote: > be difficult to prove. Since 1) the defense is strong, 2) the harm is > minimal, 3) cooperation is full, you should expect absolutely nobody > to sue the OSMF for infringement of works which are supposedly PD or > CT but not really. The position tak

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-02 Thread Russ Nelson
Richard Fairhurst writes: > [follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda] > > Russ Nelson wrote: > > What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is > > in the public domain? > > See > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-August/006608.html > e

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-02 Thread Russ Nelson
Ian Sergeant writes: > To address your question specifically, what happens to data placed in the > public domain by the author on the wiki, who then specifically declines > the CT? Well in the first case, if the edits are just a trivial > modification to a fully CT-compliant version - I'd s

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Ian Sergeant
Павел Фомин wrote on 01/09/2011 09:24:30 PM: > What about this case: > v1 is CT-compliant. > v2 adds a new tag and is not CT-compliant. > Then, v3 changes this tag and adds a bunch of other tags. > Will these other tags be considered compliant? This highlights one of the issues. The v3 may or n

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:14 AM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Furthermore, the goal is not to have a CT-clean database.  You already >> have a CT-clean database.  The goal, apparently, is to have an >> ODbL-clean database. >> > I think you me

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread 80n
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Anthony wrote: > Furthermore, the goal is not to have a CT-clean database. You already > have a CT-clean database. The goal, apparently, is to have an > ODbL-clean database. > > I think you mean a CT-clean contributor-base. Much of the database content is un-in

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote: > When I have a v1 object that is non-CT compliant, then we have to assume the > further revisions may be derivatives. Why do we have to assume this? > If CT-agreed mappers have added tags > from a survey in later revisions, then we can possibl

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Павел Фомин
What about this case: v1 is CT-compliant. v2 adds a new tag and is not CT-compliant. Then, v3 changes this tag and adds a bunch of other tags. Will these other tags be considered compliant? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Ian Sergeant
Michael Kugelmann wrote on 01/09/2011 04:19:41 PM: > we should replace the data not delete it! So please remap the information that needs to be removed. Of course we should, but we need to gives ourselves the tools which allow us to do this effectively and well. Lets think about the current p

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 31.08.2011 10:44, Nick Whitelegg wrote: I would go so far as to say, don't delete *anything* until legally you absolutely have to. I would like to somehow modyfy this statement: we should replace the data not delete it! So please remap the information that needs to be removed. Best regard

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Given that LWG doesn't appear to be changing its IMO daft stance that "a > user placing their data in the public domain is not good enough for us", I > am seriously tempted to delete and reimport TimSC's data[1] under my own > account, an

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: > What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is in > the public domain? Isn't all data in the public domain? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetm

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Ian Sergeant
Simon Poole wrote on 31/08/2011 05:29:46 PM: > I wouldn't over exaggerate the issue, in many many countries it's > actually quite difficult to find non-compliant objects and in the > countries where there are widespread issues the mappers are in general > aware of the situation and, for examp

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread SteveC
things have changed since then, might be worth revisiting On 8/31/2011 5:48 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Ed Avis wrote: Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors (in this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic upgrade clause? Then no

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Ed Avis
Richard Fairhurst systemed.net> writes: >>Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors >I expressly asked this a couple of years ago: >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-February/001971.html > >and was told "no": >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/p

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/31/2011 8:48 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Ed Avis wrote: Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors (in this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic upgrade clause? Then nothing need be deleted. I expressly asked this a couple of

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: > Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors > (in > this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic > upgrade clause? Then nothing need be deleted. I expressly asked this a couple of years ago: http://lists.openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Ed Avis
Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors (in this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic upgrade clause? Then nothing need be deleted. -- Ed Avis ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread SomeoneElse
On 31/08/2011 10:47, Richard Fairhurst wrote: [1] the stuff that people have built useful stuff on, that is. I doubt anyone would miss the random landuse ... or the NPE-derived waterways in Southern England (given that we now have far better sources for those). The problem with that of cours

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda] Russ Nelson wrote: > What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is > in the public domain? See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-August/006608.html et seq. Given that LWG doesn't appear to be changing

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Nick Whitelegg
so, the quality of the OSM map - already a useful resource for the general public - will be affected. Nick -Nathan Edgars II wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: Nathan Edgars II Date: 31/08/2011 08:17AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data.. On 8/

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Poole
Am 31.08.2011 09:16, schrieb Nathan Edgars II: Hoe about this: if you decide to delete data that the OSMF has decided not to accept, look at the history and only delete what's necessary. There's no need to make it harder on ordinary mappers who don't care about the license change. I would

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 8/31/2011 3:06 AM, Simon Poole wrote: - use the license status tools in Potlatch and JOSM when you are editing anyway to only leave compliant data after an edit (for example by not moving non-compliant nodes in a way, but by replacing them). This is naturally assuming that you have tracks and

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 17:06, Simon Poole wrote: > - ignore trolling by JohnSmith Funny way to ignore someone, in any case here's at least one particular example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aharvey/diary/14416 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetma

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Poole
Am 31.08.2011 02:19, schrieb Ian Sergeant: I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is flawed. I don't know of anybody who has proposed such a strategy (well at least nobody serious about the matter). It is clear, at the very end, there will be some automat

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread Ian Sergeant
Russ Nelson wrote on 31/08/2011 03:43:28 PM: > What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is in > the public domain? Hi Russ, The suggestion here is to streamline a process, more than determine policy.. That is to.. 1. Automatically hide trivial changes to objects origi

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 15:43, Russ Nelson wrote: > John Smith writes: > > On 31 August 2011 10:19, Ian Sergeant wrote: > > > > > > I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang > is > > > > What about the people that agreed to the CTs that had data compatible > > with

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread Russ Nelson
John Smith writes: > On 31 August 2011 10:19, Ian Sergeant wrote: > > > > I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is > > What about the people that agreed to the CTs that had data compatible > with the current license, cc-by-sa ? What about the people who d

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 10:19, Ian Sergeant wrote: > > I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is What about the people that agreed to the CTs that had data compatible with the current license, cc-by-sa ? ___ talk mailing lis

[OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread Ian Sergeant
I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is flawed. The best result for OSM is going to be obtained if the core data is nearly clean by the day of the relicencing, so that the removal of the remainder has the least possible impact. However, to accomplish that,