Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 July 2010 14:27, Andrew Harvey wrote: > If only public domain was accepted then all of the government's CC > imports would not be possible. I'm not sure how complete it is, but there is a list of data sets and the licenses: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog ___

[talk-au] New Wagga Wagga + Albury Nearmap coverage

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NearMap_PhotoMaps#New_South_Wales.2FVictoria ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
If only public domain was accepted then all of the government's CC imports would not be possible. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Christoph Donges wrote: > Things would have been so much simpler if they had gone with pd from the > start. > Personally I consider all my edits (not that there are t

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 July 2010 07:08, Liz wrote: > I made an animation a couple of years ago, and probably still have a copy. > What is now needed pictorially is the difference with and without my edits. To do this properly, you need a complete copy of the DB dump which included all history made last year, and

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear Liz, > > You said in a recent post to a list that you had mapped what was once > a blank spot on the map. > > Have you seen the OSM History animations from GeoFabrik? > http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html > > If the area that you ma

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, John Smith wrote: > The only places I've seen signs vandalised are usually in residential > locations, Hoylen and myself spotted one the other day during the > mapping party... Because our Council uses surnames of people to name the roads, others with the same surname steal th

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread Christoph Donges
Things would have been so much simpler if they had gone with pd from the start. Personally I consider all my edits (not that there are that many) to be pd and I don't care what anybody, including osm do with them. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstr

[talk-au] Looking for participants to test OSM-based audio street maps

2010-07-20 Thread Esther Loeliger
Dear all Apologies for cross-posting. As part of my Master's project at Queen Mary, University of London, I'm looking for participants to take part in a game centred on wayfinding challenges in urban audio maps. The game should take no longer than 20 minutes to complete and there will be a p

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 22:57, Richard Weait wrote: > Asking a local is one option. I go with, "I'm so lost. Can you tell > me what street this is?" That only works if there is someone to ask... > Visiting a business and asking for a business card is another option. > Business cards generally include

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:24 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 20 July 2010 16:10, Steve Bennett wrote: >> Why not use: >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname > > I was told in the UK they have streets that aren't named, where as in > Australia all streets do have names, I sent an email to

[talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Liz, You said in a recent post to a list that you had mapped what was once a blank spot on the map. Have you seen the OSM History animations from GeoFabrik? http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html If the area that you mapped is not in a current animation, you might ask them to ad

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 21:34, Liz wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Grant Slater wrote: > > Why do we want to take better data and then throw it out? > The fear uncertainty and doubt being created in this debated is out of all proportion. *rant* One week it is the OdbL that is all wrong and would result in