Sorry for breaking the thread. I understand the reasoning and the need for this policy, Simon, but can't help seeing the disappearance of such naive (somebody said infamous? ) names a bit sad. But it's time to grow up, I guess. Cheers, Yves
Le 17 septembre 2017 23:10:40 GMT+02:00, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> a écrit : >I believe there is a slight misunderstanding, while remixing >OpenStreetMap/OSM/etc in various ways may result in cutesy copycat >domain names they simply do not jibe well with reality. > >Not only does every single one of them weaken the standing of the marks >themselves and make is increasingly difficult to take action against >misuse, they are further uncontrollable liabilities for the whole >community. I gave the example of OpenWeatherMap, but there are others >that would be really painful if they ended up in the hands of your fav >giant tech corp. > >That said, I'm not sure why you believe the policy has broken >something, >with the exception of a few local chapters, to my knowledge, the OSMF >has never granted a licence to anybody to use the marks in a domain >name. As outlined in the FAQ we will be operating a grandfathering >scheme to legalize such use after the fact so actually making such use >legit for the first time. > >And yes: WoQ would be a wonderful name for Yuris service and shows that >it is completely possible to break out of the old schema of simply >copying OSM. > >Simon > > >Am 17.09.2017 um 15:57 schrieb Yves: >> So, no OpenSparqlMap, then? :( >> Sad, this policy definitely broke something. >> Yves >> >> Le 17 septembre 2017 12:58:12 GMT+02:00, Blake Girardot >> <bgirar...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> How does this relate to the new draft trademark policy? >> >> I can't tell from the draft policy, but I believe that OSM at >least is >> a protected mark, not sure about osm. >> >> But I do think Simone Poole asked the community to stop naming >things >> with osm trademarks in them or variations on openstreetmap >phrase. >> >> Cheers >> blake >> >> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Yuri Astrakhan ><yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks >> the most important thing - a good name. So far my two choices >> are: * wikosm * wikidosm Suggestions? Votes? The service >> combines Wikidata and OpenStreetMap databases, and uses >SPARQL >> (query language) to search it, so might be good to reflect >> that in the name. >> >https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata%2BOSM_SPARQL_query_service >> P.S. I know this is the hardest problem after off-by-one and >> caching... >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
