Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-10 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 11/09/12 01:28, Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Australian copyright law recognises that copyright can subsist in compilation of facts. Once copyright subsists, the only test is

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Hope
On 11 September 2012 01:28, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, for the sake of argument, how would provider A demonstrate that OSM's data was made by copying its compilation of facts, when providers B and C contain exactly the same facts? Because B and C would not contain the same

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-10 Thread Nick Hocking
John wrote Turn off the snap to road feature to avoid copying the existing map. Absolutely. On some of the older Garmin Nuvi's if you had the snap to road option on then the track log would still be the actual gps readings, but on my newest one the track log also snaps to the road .

[talk-au] Getting is right

2012-09-10 Thread Brett Russell
Hi I have been looking at few commercial mapping products closely and it is interesting to see the errors. 1. Wrong names used. 2. Peaks in the wrong place. 3. Tracks that cross lakes. 4. Tracks that start and end in the middle of no where. 5. Tracks massively out of date or just plain