Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Liz wrote: > > Do maps fall under "published editions" or "artistic works"? Cos that > > will make a 25 year difference... No, I'm not a lawyer (phew) we are certainly taking the view that a map is a collection of facts and certainly not an artistic work (although Steve did m

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Matt White wrote: > That would imply older Melways would be out of copyright (given they > date back to early 70's-ish). > > Do maps fall under "published editions" or "artistic works"? Cos that > will make a 25 year difference... > > Matt How do I work out whether som

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Matt White
That would imply older Melways would be out of copyright (given they date back to early 70's-ish). Do maps fall under "published editions" or "artistic works"? Cos that will make a 25 year difference... Matt Liz wrote: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cameron wrote: > >> I have recently been into the

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cameron wrote: > I have recently been into the SA state library and found an out of > copyright SA street directory (from the 40s.) They had both Fuller's and > Gregory's directories but the Gregory's were far easier to read and thus, > to copy. Important matter on copyright d

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:29:08 -0800 (PST) bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: > Early on in my OSM career, I changed a freeway that was from a GPS > but the track wasn't accurate compared to nearby tracks/traces. So I > deleted it and traced from Yahoo, with lots of nodes along bends to > make them smo

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread bluemm1975-osm
--- On Sun, 18/1/09, i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > > source=* is different, since just because you tweak a few road bends > > from a GPS track doesn't mean it wasn't derived from Yahoo tracing. > > I'd suggest source=yahoo;gps in that case. > > Of course I'm not a copyright lawyer, but that seems t

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread bluemm1975-osm
I too "found the light" after following the Talk mailing list, but had already done ~8 months of tracing :-( Slowly fixing that up now. I too think that data that has no source/source:name/source:ref tags etc. is not trustworthy, but is better than nothing (because someone can now see that it ne

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Matt White
I'm also a serial offender for not using the survey tag, but again, I upload all my traces. I do a bit of yahoo tracing as well, and don't directly mark that either... But then again, I don't go and screw around with any existing nodes and ways unless I've been there... however I have been know

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Hocking
"Or carried the gps with you on a side trek into the bushes for nature's call" Ok how about amenity=toilets permanent=no PS - there have been some interersting discussions about tempory features like Black Rock City (Burning Man). Also should OSM have historical data (as either seperate datab

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: > Eventually someone may use these traces without  knowing if I was actually > driving on the road the whole time. Or carried the gps with you on a side trek into the bushes for nature's call :-) ___ Talk-au mai

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Hocking
"There is a substantial amount of data with no source tag. I'd really like to know whether it was traced or surveyed, because then I'd know whether to go down that street or not." Liz, I think there was a recent discussion about this and there was a school of thought that said that if there were

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread info
> I have since been tagging very extensively with source. I only trace stuff > like rivers, canals and railways that I am not going to be travelling > down. Like wise. Maybe there needs to be some thought put into the osm side of things about survey being a required tag. ie the editors (josm etc

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > My thoughts on this is if it's not tagged then it's not surveyed. > > Cheers > Ross Initially I didn't tag my surveyed stuff as source=survey There is just so much to learn about what really needs to be recorded, and I once thought that unmarked st

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread info
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: >> This is really simple. >> >> If the source=survey don't change it unless you have resurveyed it. >> >> Under no circumstances change source=survey data with traced data. > > It is simple, but there are mappers who have done so. > Then if someone h

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > This is really simple. > > If the source=survey don't change it unless you have resurveyed it. > > Under no circumstances change source=survey data with traced data. It is simple, but there are mappers who have done so. Then if someone has not marke

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:36:43 +1000 (EST) i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:21:02 +1000 (EST) > > i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > > > >> > Nick, My worry with the Old map + yahoo combo is that some > >> > armchair mappers may over-ride existing surveyed data (I've > >> > already seen

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread info
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:21:02 +1000 (EST) > i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: > >> > Nick, My worry with the Old map + yahoo combo is that some armchair >> > mappers may over-ride existing surveyed data (I've already seen >> > surveyed stuff over-ridden by someone looking at yahoo a few times) >> > maybe

Re: [talk-au] A Tale of two Mappers

2009-01-17 Thread Matt White
Mapper 3: Having the core data (street and name) is still better than having no data, but not as good as having complete data. Using the old maps as a name source is not wrong - it's just incomplete. If the road hasn't moved, and the name hasn't changed, then it's a much better start than not h

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:39:54 +1030 Cameron wrote: > Nick, > > The problem you describe can be caused without the use of yahoo > imagery or out of copyright maps. If someone surveyed a street in > 2006 and it has since been made oneway, it will not be updated unless > someone is keeping a close e

[talk-au] A Tale of two Mappers

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Hocking
Mapper 1: - Any data is better than no data Mapper 2: - No Data is better than wrong data ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Cameron
Nick, The problem you describe can be caused without the use of yahoo imagery or out of copyright maps. If someone surveyed a street in 2006 and it has since been made oneway, it will not be updated unless someone is keeping a close eye on changes made by local councils. If a country road is bitum

Re: [talk-au] A couple of routing issues (NSW)

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Hocking
On a similar type problem to the never-ending recalculating one... I was driving south on Commonwealth Avenue (ACT) and the route called for me to proceed along Capital circle. However, I veered left onto a closeish concentric circle (State circle). The display soon showed my position correctly o

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Nick Hocking
"Encouraging on a quality contol level" HI Darren, Please excuse me for taking your quote a bit out of context but My concern is if someone traces a road from Yahoo, and then it gets tagged from a source other than the street signs then the road is complete but has never been surveyed. Yaho

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Cameron
I think that's an advertisement ;) ~Cameron 2009/1/17 Darrin Smith > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:32:12 +1030 > Cameron wrote: > > > All, > > > > The directory is now available at > > http://www.osmaustralia.org/gregorysmaps.php Thanks to Matt White > > (Gaffa) for the hosting! > > > > It's a great r

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:32:12 +1030 Cameron wrote: > All, > > The directory is now available at > http://www.osmaustralia.org/gregorysmaps.php Thanks to Matt White > (Gaffa) for the hosting! > > It's a great resource for naming streets traced from Yahoo. When > doing so, please tag your work as

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-17 Thread Cameron
All, The directory is now available at http://www.osmaustralia.org/gregorysmaps.php Thanks to Matt White (Gaffa) for the hosting! It's a great resource for naming streets traced from Yahoo. When doing so, please tag your work as source = Gregory's 1949 (or more commonly, source:name = Gregory's 1