Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joe Richards wrote: I think this might be taking attribution too literally. Just because Google Maps does this for the copyright holder, doesn't mean that LINZ insists on the same. Can anyone substantiate that LINZ actually require this to be on-screen at all times when LINZ data is

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Towpath relation: voting open

2009-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Thomas Wood wrote: Because so far (with exception of the enforcement relation) relations have not been voted in, but been accepted once they gain a significant usage in OSM. Absolutely. I'm not sure why the need for a specific towpath-waterway relation. Why not just have a general-purpose

Re: [OSM-talk] Hardware Upgrade Fund

2009-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Etienne wrote: We are going to keep the appeal open for at least a few more days. We know there are more donations in the pipeline Google Inc Google Open Source Programs Office http://code.google.com/opensource/ 2009-02-08 12:33:25 GBP 5,000.00 Wow. cheers Richard -- View this message in

Re: [OSM-talk] undeleting ways?

2009-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
BH wrote: Hmmm but potlatch must have some way of querying for deleted ways - if it is not the main API, is it something documented somewhere? Some hidden API? Or should I try my luck with browsing through potlatch sources or perhaps using wireshark to find out? Or you could ask me.

Re: [OSM-talk] undeleting ways?

2009-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MP wrote: I tried searching on CPAN for AMF classes, but I have found only server-side libraries for perl - I found code to create an AMF serice, but no code to call it. Do you know of any Perl package to call the AMF code? From a brief glance you should be able to use Data::AMF, but the

Re: [OSM-talk] undeleting ways?

2009-02-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MP wrote: I tried it multiple times, with same result. The ordinary API seems to work, so I don't think it is just some server outage. Any clue where the problem may be? Works fine for me, but just returns an empty list - i.e. there aren't any deleted ways in that area. (The get deleted ways

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: The current concept is good for geeks , like you and me, and people that are really interested. The geeks are on-board ( 1). Now it's time to create a user interface for the rest of the world. Yes, I agree absolutely (wow, Gert and I agree on something :) ).

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shaun McDonald wrote: I have created: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1584 for RichardF. :) Thanks. Of course, the other thing we could do is rescue the wiki from trainwreck territory. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM on The Reg

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: And there is a limit to the extent that we can dumb down the interface without compromising usefulness. How would 'add a road' work? I cannot even begin to dream of how to code such a thing. Have a look at Google MapMaker. We don't have to dumb down; we can offer

[OSM-talk] Oxford/Cotswolds mailing list

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Oxford, Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds have as many mappers as anywhere in Britain, and such things as Mapnik, Potlatch and npemap.org.uk hail from our county - but we didn't have a mailing list. Now Mike Collinson has kindly set one up. The address is

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetbugs source code

2009-02-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: I'm all for having the geo-bugs in the main database, in fact I would much prefer that Yep, me too, as I'd like to add support in Potlatch. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Openstreetbugs-source-code-tp22090086p22117319.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] Re nder strangeness

2009-02-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Vollmert wrote: Probably, a minor edit in Potlatch (say changing a tag) will restore it. Indeed. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033065.html explains what this is (and http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-January/013540.html describes a recent

Re: [OSM-talk] GPX trace vandalism?

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: That said, my understanding is that Potlatch puts a break in the track whenever there is a jump in the timestamp. Richard can probably explain in more detail what it does. (Oooh, look at all that lovely untraced Yahoo imagery...) Yep. Potlatch connects points, breaking

Re: [OSM-talk] GPX trace vandalism?

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tanveer Singh wrote: Okay, I enabled just my track, and at one point, its done the same even with my track. If you post the URL of your track, we can tell you what's wrong with it. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Database Licence (ODbL)

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jordan S Hatcher wrote: I know everyone really wants to see the latest draft and have an opportunity to discuss it. If you can just give me a bit of time, I'll have something for you next week. Any news? Not meant as a nag, we're just all in an eager state of anticipation. :) cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] Locating objects in Google Maps/Earth

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
LeedsTracker wrote: I do. To be clear, I'm not advocating using Gmaps/G-earth for OSM, I was just puzzled by the (apparently unproblematic) use of it in Wikimedia and wondered if a parallel use was justifiable. Put yourself in the shoes of Google's lawyers - and, more significantly, those of

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=doctor or amenity=doctors ? [tagging]

2009-02-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Guenther Meyer wrote: it may be trivial, but when you have to do this for every possible tag with some variations, it's a waste of time, that should not be necessary. parsing the osm xml files is already a ressource consuming task; every unnecessary work should be omitted. Maybe, but you

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: I can't help feeling the effort that I've noticed some contributors are putting into manually changing oneway=yes to oneway=true would be better spent doing something more useful. Eek - people are really doing this? 'yes' is English (and, as you say, in the editor

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nop wrote: On the other hand, the way I understood it OSM was a global initative and is happy for every additional mapper. If this is the goal, we need structures that you can understand and properly use without a degree in computer science. A good general principle: we should always

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: There's exactly one way to be sure this won't happen: get approval of *all* the people who've been editing OSM. And with a number of around 100.000 mappers I'm very skeptical that you'll be able to manage that. Not true (IMO at least). We have 100,000

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
marcus.wolschon wrote: Actually it's the other way around. We have tens of thousands of mappers but are lacking developers on every corner. Nah. We don't have enough developers on the OSM core site, but that's immaterial in this context. The ecosystem, however, is thriving. There isn't a day

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway yes or true

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: A good general principle: we should always optimise for ease of mapping. Yes Richard, but some things are best done in the editors. It's much easier for editors to highlight obvious mistakes, than

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Hill wrote: Emoticon aside, I think the licence is far too important to just discuss among a cosy few. When I tried to join legal (out of interest) I could not. It's not a closed list - it's open to anyone and you can, of course, read on the web or via Nabble. If you try to join

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Donald Allwright wrote: Even in the UK, which follows the sweat of the brow principle (i.e. copyright can be gained through effort even without creativity), such effort needs to be significant. Sorry I meant to add at the end of my previous email - what I was saying is that tracing of

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: As long as there's no answer to it [...] I wouldn't even accept [...] I would refuse [...] I want a very detailed answer [...] that's really not my concern [...] Hey, this is a collaborative project. No-one is being paid for this. You could, you know, even _help_. cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: Great use of the ellipsis. You may have missed that I actually had some things to say there. Yes, I'm sure you did. But what I was trying to say is that (IMO) the really important bit is this: My hope basically when starting this thread was that these fundamental issues

[OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
CC-BY-SA says: You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this License, a later version of this License with the same License Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: What percentage of data would other people feel willing to see sacrificed in order to move forward with the new license? I'd be interested to see this related to our userbase and editing stats. If (say) we lose 5%, how many months - at current rates of growth - does it take us to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: No. CC-BY-SA does not have a class of derivative works that are not share alike. ODbL does. No it doesn't, that's the entire point of what I said. (Is this the five-minute argument or the full half-hour?) This is what 4.7 in ODbL is all about. The data is still protected, if

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jean-christophe.haessig wrote: Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki pages, I am under the impression that most of the participants in the discussion are public domain advocates and that they may use this license change to promote their views.

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
wer-ist-roger wrote: First of all we will lose data. We won't get everyone to agree on the new license. No matter why. Maybe they don't approve the new license or we just can't reach them anymore. There's three categories to consider relating to existing data. 1. People who have made edits

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. Very pretty in a sort of let's-polish-the-CSS way, which isn't a bad thing at all. In a let's ask for the stars way, though, how about: - a

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is MDI. Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen windows overlapping - that's

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote:  Personally I am feeling excluded from what's going on behind the scenes and I think this is not the way for a project that has open in his name ... If it helps, there _isn't_ anything going on behind the scenes... well, at least not that I know of. Post in German, or

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Quite. Can someone please come up with names for the two main styles that aren't just the technology that creates them? Mapnik - Standard (or maybe 'Classic') Osmarender - Community cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, Derivative Databases Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: Am I missing something obvious, or am I just being sneaky in some way? And is there a way it can be made more obvious in the license if it's actually intended to be that way? I think this is a serious error in the ODbL draft 0.9. (I believe Frederik is of the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO - layer names

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: It's not clear that it's the distributed rendering of the data that makes one more community than the other. That's not quite what I was thinking of - it was more the cartographic style than the mechanics behind it. The Osmarender layer tends to prioritise more POIs, more

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: This could potentially alienate anyone who wonders why they are doing surveying for free so that cartographers can sell all-rights- reserved map images based on their data. Yeah, just like I lie in bed at night fretting that people can sell all-rights-reserved, closed-source

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: It's very confusing now about who, how and what is deleted with the license change. I would appreciate if someone could answer the following questions: It's not been decided. What do you think should happen? Everything is up for debate. ODbL itself is up for debate. As Jordan

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: What you wrote above is a very good argument for it. Rendering the data into a printed map is not a great deal of effort. Anyone can do it and many already do so. There are not many people who would be put off from rendering maps by being unable to make the result

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: If the cartographers then devise a new license that says my contributions are more important than yours, I should get exclusive rights over my additions to the map with a paintbrush while you shouldn't get exclusive rights over your additions to the map with a GPS then it reduces

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: [routing source code] I saw that as a bit of a loophole in the license which is unfortunate but rather difficult to close Ok, that's consistent. Extreme, perhaps, but consistent. But: [...] we can just declare that it should meet sharelike standards to ensure that OSM players

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
MP wrote: We have now tool to convert OSM data to garmin format (Mkgmap). The tool is opensource. Garmin can do routing (at least I assume it can, I don't posses any garmin devices or software myself) and is closed source. Would the new license make mkgmap unusable/illegal with odbl'd

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan - what data would need deleting

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: But don't kid yourselves it's a simple A or B choice. Absolutely. Steve actually answers this in his (very good IMO) Licence to kill post. You can theoretically work out a complicated Boolean system of is this derived from an ODbL refusenik's work?. You can read every bit of

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan - minimum-legalese option

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote:  I could start tracing in things from Ordnance Survey maps right away. Note that these maps are 'Crown Copyright', not 'Crown Database Right' http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22crown+copyright+and+database+right%22 :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan - minimum-legalese option

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: The clear advice (verbal so far) from our lawyer is that in the UK/EU map data is covered by copyright (as well as DB rights). I will quote the following from an Ordnance Survey agreement as much for people's amusement as for edification. Intellectual Property Rights

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pierre-André Jacquod wrote: Was a surprised by the announcement. Read the license and mails. Would probably have said yes. But I do not like the way this went on. The fact that those who want to change it just say you do not want to help. That's my free time, that's your's. Seriously,

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: How do people feel about me importing this data (with all of their metadata), adding an immutable=yes tag, with the intent of tracking their dataset, and deleting --outright-- any changes made by OSM editors. If it can't be edited, there's no point sending it to the

Re: [OSM-talk] Cloudmade: We are the Wikipedia of maps

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephen Hope wrote: And you can't always blame the journalists, either. Once they send their copy in, the editors can have a go at it as well. If I may speak up for editors, a lot of journalists could avoid this unfortunate necessity by Actually Learning To Write. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Cloudmade: We are the Wikipedia of maps

2009-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lars Aronsson wrote: You have to explain how your rants help the project. The impression I get is that you cause division rather than unity. On a point of order, getting all meta on a flamewar like this is the most surefire way to prolong it. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] California bill to limit detail on online mapping tools

2009-03-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren Pieren wrote: May I suggest a new tag: landuse=blur Superb. I've been wanting a tag like that for a while. I have now used it for the first time, in a location not that far from where I live: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=51.90063lon=-1.62397zoom=15way=32060656 (warning - very

Re: [OSM-talk] immutable=yes Fwd: DEC Lands

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: There's a reason why people create generalized interfaces and standard metadata and a common currency and a shared language We do have all that, of course. It's called, for OSM-historical reasons, the Rails port. You can get yourself a server (I can probably think of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Spam] Re: Alternatives to wikipedia?

2009-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter - are you really sure about geograph? AIUI only the photos are CC-BY-SA, the geolocation is OS-derived. Please check. Sorry for crap formatting, moving house so on mobile. Richard Peter Miller-7 wrote: On 18 Mar 2009, at 17:11, Lester Caine wrote: Tim 'avatar' Bartel wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: The problem marking it as cycleway now is that in the UK road bridleway cycleway footway loosely speaking. Unless there is evidence to the contrary, cycles can use bridleways, but horses can't use cycleways. Sort of. There are actually two fairly important exceptions to

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Map Features says that highway=cycleway should be used for ways that are mainly/exclusively for bicycles. Map Features is wrong. :) IIRC some divvy inserted this sentence a good while after people had got accustomed to using highway=cycleway for shared-use paths. cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=cyclefootway

2009-03-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Chadwick wrote: So let it be a cycleway, tagged designation=public_bridleway. Surface I guess we can use the best (vehicular) value for it: paved, probably. Acceptable? *applauds* cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[OSM-talk] OSM April Fools

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Igor%20Shubovych/diary/5772 http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=459 http://fakestevec.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-ceo-appointed.html http://blog.shaunmcdonald.me.uk/2009/04/the-crap-o-surface-detector/ cheers Richard ___ talk

[OSM-talk] OSM in Living Spain magazine

2009-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Living Spain, a quarterly magazine published by our company, has just published its new spring issue and I'm pleased to report that it includes OSM mapping for the first time. The magazine contains pull-out Instant Guides to Barcelona and Torrevieja, and each one has a city map. For these,

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap in The Times - atlas of the world book

2009-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rory McCann wrote: So is that book under a creative commons licence? Collective Work. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OpenStreetMap-in-%22The-Times---atlas-of-the-world%22-book-tp22734589p22925199.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Using the data...

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: This is correct. Neither OSM nor OSMF holds any copyright. Database right, on the other hand... ;) For a magazine, I use OpenStreetMap.org and contributors: CC-BY-SA next to the map. Then in the flannel panel at the start of the magazine (where copyright/contributor

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering export has only coastline

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Ward wrote: This looks like a bug/problem with the Openstreetmap Mapnik Export rendering. Can anyone confirm, or fix? Mapnik export doesn't work on Wednesdays while the database is reloaded. I believe there's an intention to fix this in the medium term (help welcome no doubt). Meanwhile

Re: [OSM-talk] People's Map

2009-04-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Harris wrote: Does anyone know anything about People's Map? It's a tragic waste of good aerial imagery. http://fakestevec.blogspot.com/2007/12/peoples-map-is-deeply-fucked.html cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/People%27s-Map-tp22966717p22967071.html

[OSM-talk] We're back

2009-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
...with API 0.6, Postgres and the new server. But everyone's uploading at once, so don't expect to do much serious editing for the time being. :) The new changeset stuff is really superb. Have a browse: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changesets Mad props (as the kids say) to Tom,

Re: [OSM-talk] We're back

2009-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Another short question : empty changesets are possible ? (e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/876923) (I tried to download the xml but no response - I guess it is the server current load). Indeed, there's no prohibition on empty changesets. Specifically,

Re: [OSM-talk] We're back

2009-04-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: Great. Congratulations to all involved. You pulled a massive, great job. Potlatch seems to be stuck for me at 'Loading Presets'. It does say 0.11. Firefox and Chrome on windows. Is this load-related or something else altogether? Load-related. I know of two issues

Re: [OSM-talk] We're back

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Loach wrote: When editing, Potlatch no longer shows what relations an existing way is part of. I'm assuming this isn't deliberate. Still trying to track this one down. It works 100% as intended on my local test setup, with the latest svn code and the latest Potlatch (though still running

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-be] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Upgrade finished

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Laenen wrote: Little warning though: relations are completely broken with Potlatch. We think we've found the issue. More in half an hour, hopefully. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-be] IMPORTANT - OSM API upgrade - Upgrade finished

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: We think we've found the issue. More in half an hour, hopefully. Fixed (hopefully) and committed. Will be live later when Tom has a chance to deploy it. For those interested, the database was changed in 0.6 to store relation members as 'Way', 'Node' or 'Relation'. Previously they were

Re: [OSM-talk] Editor statistics from created_by in changesets

2009-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Have new editor statistics been compiled from the created_by tag in changesets now that 0.6 is live? If anyone actually managed to use Potlatch on Tuesday/Wednesday, given the server speed, I think they deserve some sort of medal. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Schreiber wrote: We don't know where the wikipedia users sourced their cooridinates from. Oh yes we do: Google Maps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools There is absolutely no way that Wikipedia-derived co-ordinates are suitable for mass

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Thomas Wood wrote: Where's ShakespeareFan00 when you need him? :) That poor guy has been told by some self-important OSMers that Wikimapia was an unacceptable source, and they somehow forgot to say that this is just the OSM interpretation. SFan00 dutifully started

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: Fine enough, and who sweated hardest to click in a particular point on a Google Map? Google? Or the Wikipedia editor[...]? Sweat-of-the-brow doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that A did some work, but B did more, so B owns the copyright. _Both_ A and B own some

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jochen Topf wrote: I don't think we have to worry about that. Google hasn't sued Wikipedia yet. And Wikipedia has been distributing all those points in bulk for years. It isn't about Google, it's about their data providers. Wikipedia is not a competitor to TeleAtlas. OpenStreetMap is.

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikipedia POI import?

2009-05-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: WHERE do you guys get these weird ideas about copyright from? Tell you what. You work for CloudMade, right? I suggest you ask your bosses. Show them what you're proposing to import. Show them the Wikipedia page that explains how it's been gathered. Ask them if they'd be

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] my views on the ODbL

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 05/12/2009 21:31, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: The proposed licence is not a benefit to Australians in my view. You have generously qualified this with in my view and I should point out that I disagree with all the force I can muster. I spent about two hours this morning writing a pretty detailed

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: You've spent many many hours studying the licensing issues and claim to have a deep understanding of the issues. If CC BY-SA is as broken as you claim it is then Google, Navteq, Teleatlas and many others would all have helped themselves to our data by now. You can't continue

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Google have recently started using their own set of map data for the USA. If it were possible for them to take OSM data under the current licence they would have done so. This suggests that the current share-alike provisions are working as intended. No, it suggests that our

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net writes: In other words: If you want to use OSM data without attribution or share-alike, you may do so by distributing the program that makes the derivative, rather than the derivative itself. Right. Of course it is up to the user

Re: [OSM-talk] Implications of using aggregated/statistical data from both licenses (ODbL and CC-by-SA) for OSMdoc?

2009-12-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Lars Francke wrote: At the moment I'm displaying statistical data about a snapshot of the OSM data. If it'd stay that way it would be very easy for me to switch from one license to the other as the data wouldn't depend on data from the CC by-SA set. But I'm currently rewriting the tool to

Re: [OSM-talk] indic fonts in mapnik, JOSM and Potlatch

2009-12-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I have been searching for a way to render indic fonts in OSM/mapnik for some months and have posted here and elsewhere without result. Today I discovered something called GNU unifont which has glyphs for all known languages. Apparently this is used in the official

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Ah, but I don't plan on ever visiting the OSM website when and if they switch to the ODbL. Best. Reason to switch to ODbL. Ever. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shalabh wrote: 1. A group of really useless people with nothing better to discuss or 2. A group of really diligent people making the world's map better and being assinine about it. 3. A group of no doubt lovely people who have temporarily forgotten about the existence of the tagging list

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion: fallback tag

2009-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: For example, around my city there are little reserves - patches of grass reserved by the government for future development such as freeways or train lines. They often get tagged leisure=park, but say I want to start tagging them landuse=reserve instead. Suddenly,

Re: [OSM-talk] Barrier to entry: to trace from imagery on Ubuntu

2009-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roy Wallace wrote: Currently, it's my understanding that, if you're running Ubuntu and want to contribute by tracing imagery, you have to follow the instructions here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/WMSPlugin#On_Ubuntu_9.10_.27Karmic_Koala.27 Or you could use Potlatch...

[OSM-talk] Server problem

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, If you get a message from Potlatch complaining about uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::Multibyte, and asking you to e-mail me, you don't need to. Something has changed on the server and Potlatch is simply passing the message back to the user. Nothing has changed in Potlatch

Re: [OSM-talk] Server problem

2009-12-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom's restarted the daemon and it appears to have fixed the problem for now. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Oh, there's every chance it will be adopted. The issues with this clause have been raised on various discussion lists, but it doesn't look like there's going to be any change. Don't be too pessimistic! Matt and I hammered away at this one on IRC just before Christmas

Re: [OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

2010-01-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: We cannot, and do not want to, trademark the words open, free and the like, but I think we could be a little bit more assertive about whom we consider to be a kindred spirit and who is doing his own thing, and apply the tiniest amount of pressure for people to upgrade from

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: But...where do you get the street name from? I think there's a general policy that you can't copy it off other maps...but why, exactly? How can a piece of information like the name of the street be copyright? Quick answer as requested: 1. Your jurisdiction may give

Re: [OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Just because user X does something propietary with OSM data doesn't mean that he is less of a nice guy. However (on the other hand) just because he is a nice guy doesn't mean that something proprietary he produces should be treated as if it was part of the family. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: I'd say a key provision there is the one about repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts. If you're just using a map site occasionally, when you hit a snag, that's one thing. If you're systematically using it on road after road, that's another. Oh, sure. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, IMHO it should not be an option on the main map page as it is less open than OSM. Instead we could have other projects there, that are as open as OSM (and that preferably cover the whole planet, don't know how much of those there are at the moment). Right.

Re: [OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

2010-01-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Your argument about flash players and JVMs leads nowhere; I am not talking about openness of the target infrastructure but openness of the process. I know you're not. Nonetheless neither you nor I have a monopoly on defining open. People on this list have, in the past,

[OSM-talk] Haiti street names

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
The Port-au-Prince map is astonishing but we're short on street names in some places. I've added a 1994 US military map as one of the background layers in Potlatch. You can use this to add street names easily. Full details are at:

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicated Refugee Camps

2010-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Margie Roswell wrote: Are there other source codes that people are using frequently, that we might like to request be added to potlatch? On the specific issue of source= tags, Potlatch best practice is that you select the imagery you want from the popup menu, then use the B (for 'background')

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: Seems a lot of mappers would be quite happy to follow an at least more fixed tagging scheme than what we currently have today. Unfortunately, there's no magic wand to get to this quickly ... It's beginning to happen already. As OSM's data structures (principally

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: Is there any initiative to make sure the different editors use the same tags for the same thing? If so, I missed it completely. Not formally, but certainly when deciding which presets to use in Potlatch I'll look at the other editor presets; at tools like OSMdoc and Tagwatch;

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roy Wallace wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: I will confess to being very disappointed that JOSM has now adopted the retarded why-use-one-tag-when-eighty-three-will-do cycleway scheme. So you seriously think highway=cycleway is all that's needed to describe the various flavours

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