Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-27 Thread Gregory
On 26 November 2012 15:58, Lester Caine wrote: > Richard Fairhurst wrote: > >> Kate Chapman wrote: >> >>> >Does anyone have suggestions or a preference? >>> >> "OpenStreetMap" says it all. >> >> As in "Hi. We're OpenStreetMap. You may have heard of us." >> > > I'd second that ... does not need an

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-27 Thread Hermann Peifer
On 2012-11-26 11:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I'd like to point out that even though your claim might be true in terms of quantity (didn't check that but have my doubts too, because there are far more road ways in the db than landuse) there are many countries which didn't import CORINE, Germany

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread nicholas . g . lawrence
> >> So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic > >> information, non-authoritative data, or something else? > > > > Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ? > > I'm personally not sure I agree with the non-authoritative part.   Instead of "non-authoritative" I pref

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
On these lines my one-liner for OSM is that it is "A project to create the best community-produced Open Geo Data set of the whole world of any (verifiable) physical object (and some non-physical data, too)." So, my key points in that are: 1) Open Geodata 2) of all data, _integrated_ (no layers, a

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Lester Caine
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Kate Chapman wrote: >Does anyone have suggestions or a preference? "OpenStreetMap" says it all. As in "Hi. We're OpenStreetMap. You may have heard of us." I'd second that ... does not need any more -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
Apologies for bringing up imports on the list. At least I didn't mention the license change though! ;) >That's not wrong either, but not precise enough to distinguish a project >such as OSM from e.g. governments' Open Data efforts. Continuing to play Devil's Advocate, I think this is just an issu

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 26.11.2012 14:06, Joseph Reeves wrote: > Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large > swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not > crowdsourced, CORINE data. I don't believe that Europe is "dominated" by CORINE data. Several European countr

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions or a preference? "OpenStreetMap" says it all. As in "Hi. We're OpenStreetMap. You may have heard of us." cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/What-to-call-OSM-data-tp5737570p5737660.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Henning Scholland
Am 26.11.2012 14:06, schrieb Joseph Reeves: >I think crowdsourced is accurate. Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not crowdsourced, CORINE data. I think imported data isn't a question of crowe

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/11/26 Joseph Reeves : >>I think crowdsourced is accurate. > > Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes > of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not > crowdsourced, CORINE data. > > I'd describe OSM data simply as "open". I'd like to po

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Joseph Reeves
>I think crowdsourced is accurate. Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not crowdsourced, CORINE data. I'd describe OSM data simply as "open". Cheers, Joseph On 26 November 2012 12:55, Greg T

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Greg Troxel
Kate Chapman writes: > Hi All, > > So I met with a group looking to link OSM data to other data. Meaning > have a link that says this village in OSM is equivalent to this > village in these 3 other datasets. Part of this process involves > having metadata for everything. > > The people I met wit

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Colin Smale
> > On 26 Nov 2012, at 09:58, Pieren wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: >> >>> So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic >>> information, non-authoritative data, or something else? >> >> Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ? > > I'm p

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Barnett, Phillip
, etc From: Tom Davie [tom.da...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 November 2012 10:25 To: Pieren Cc: osm Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data? On 26 Nov 2012, at 09:58, Pieren wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > >> So for example crowdso

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Tom Davie
On 26 Nov 2012, at 09:58, Pieren wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > >> So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic >> information, non-authoritative data, or something else? > > Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ? I'm personally n

Re: [OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-26 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic > information, non-authoritative data, or something else? Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ? Pieren ___ talk mailing

[OSM-talk] What to call OSM data?

2012-11-25 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, So I met with a group looking to link OSM data to other data. Meaning have a link that says this village in OSM is equivalent to this village in these 3 other datasets. Part of this process involves having metadata for everything. The people I met with asked me a question I hadn't been as