[talk-au] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

2013-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto Big Thank you to #osm-dev for helping draft this announcement. Kind regards Grant Slater Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

2013-07-23 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 July 2013 15:08, David Clark wrote: > Sorry I don't really understand this, how will this affect me and what I > see? > Hopefully you shouldn't see any difference. :-) It is a large behind the scenes change on how we produce the default map tiles (view) for OpenStreetMap.org The old map s

Re: [talk-au] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

2013-07-24 Thread Grant Slater
On 24 July 2013 10:45, David Clark wrote: > Does that mean it will be easier (therefore more likely) to improve the > rendering of OpenCyclemap? That would be good. > This is unrelated to OpenCycleMap. OpenCycleMap is a separate project by Andy Allan (gravitystorm) / Grant _

Re: [talk-au] New tile rendering server (Experimental)

2013-08-05 Thread Grant Slater
On 5 August 2013 03:58, Hamish Campbell wrote: > HI Grant, > > Wondering if this is related, there seem to be a few faulty tiles: > > E.g.: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-46.080780029296875&lon=167.288818359375&zoom=10 > > Zoom in and out - the woodland cover is there, but not rendered at so

Re: [talk-au] ISP caching problems with JOSM ?

2013-09-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Ian, The api.openstreetmap.org map data servers send "no-cache" headers and proxy/caches should therefore NOT be caching the results... But some ISPs are too aggressive with their caching. Make sure JOSM is set to the default OSM server (there are 3rd party caching API servers available): JOSM

Re: [talk-au] Problems saving input to OSM

2013-10-01 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Guys, Happy to help diagnose this with someone. Does this effect anyone using JOSM? Easiest way is to contact me in channel #osm-dev on irc: http://irc.osm.org/ Regards Grant Part of OSM sysadmin team On 1 October 2013 05:56, Steve Bennett wrote: > Potlatch2 or ID? If Potlatch2, I have s

[talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-20 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OSM Australia, Anyone up for this? The openstreetmapS.com domain is being held by Michael Gilmour of parklogic.com for sale. He is based in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia. The domain was originally registered on behalf of OpenStreetMap in 2007 but was accidentally not renewed. Would any Aus

Re: [talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 March 2014 00:48, Michael Gratton wrote: > > Whois reports the registrar is "KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH" > http://www.key-systems.net/, which appears to be a German registrar. > Yes, I contacted them a few months ago. Received a response, unlikely to have much luck following that route. > I'll happi

Re: [talk-au] AU openstreetmapS.com domain squatter

2014-03-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 20 March 2014 21:56, David Bannon wrote: > > Grant, are you suggesting the domain is being held in a cyber squatting > mode ? That Michael is holding it with the intention of making a profit > from it ? > The domain is used to catch openstreetmap typos. Many newbies mistakenly believe the proj

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-07-05 Thread Grant Slater
Hi, We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on time and were not able to get it up and running again. I will visit the data centre in a week to fix or replace the hardware. Regards Grant Part of sysadmin team On 6 July

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
ndrew Harvey" wrote: > On 6 July 2014 15:30, Grant Slater wrote: > > We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs > > agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on > > time and were not able to get it up and running again. > > > > I

[talk-au] AGRI Imagery

2016-02-02 Thread Grant Slater
Hi Talk-AU, I'm still working to fully restore the Australian Geographic Reference Image (AGRI) site I run after the hardware failure... AGRI? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Geographic_Reference_Image I now have the tiles up and running again and they can be used in the editors JO

Re: [talk-au] Increased precision options for Australia - QZSS, SBAS or Galileo

2018-06-12 Thread Grant Slater
Hi All, I have 2 of these for RTK GNSS receivers: https://emlid.com/reachrs/ 1 ReachRS unit becomes the RTK static "base" and you needs a very accurate position measurement and good signal. To get the most accurate measurement I use my base and connect it to another base using an NTRIP network. I

[talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-19 Thread Grant Slater
Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU, Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure. Our tile.openstreetmap.org CDN would greatly benefit from having a cache server in Australia and/or New Zealand. It would make the default rendered map on OpenStr

Re: [talk-au] [Talk-nz] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-20 Thread Grant Slater
ey location, would this be a viable option? > > Thanks, John > > On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Grant Slater > wrote: >> >> Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU, >> >> Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run >> the OpenStreetMap.org infrastr

Re: [talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

2019-02-24 Thread Grant Slater
> The only thing I don’t have right now is a router that can handle the higher > speed plan from my ISP that would be required. > > How urgently do you guys want something in place? > > Thanks Michael > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Grant Slater

[talk-au] NearMap article on Wikipedia

2009-11-24 Thread Grant Slater
OSM Team AU, Lets show some love... New Wikipedia NearMap article... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearMap Article needs some expanding. / Grant ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 80n <80n...@gmail.com>: > The OSM Foundation can't "force" anyone to relicense their existing data For clarity... the OSM Foundation is not some evil group... The OSMF is open, anyone from the community can join. The OSMF Board is democratically elected from the OSMF membership. OSMF Boa

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-05 Thread Grant Slater
2009/12/5 Liz : > Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the proposed new licence. > It is designed around European law, and gives "database protection" which is > not a legal concept which is likely to apply here, after the recent High Court > case Nine vs IceTv, when the database wa

Re: [talk-au] Duplicate node finder

2010-02-11 Thread Grant Slater
> But zoom levels six and lower are still showing marks that have been > removed for at least a day. They must be updated at some lower > frequency, which is understandable - I'm guessing there is some > clumping of many marks into one, or it would take forever to display > at these zooms. > The l

Re: [talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

2010-05-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 May 2010 12:05, Chris Barham wrote: > This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com > http://www.arcgis.com/home/ > which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required) > that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was > interesting as it i

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

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith wrote: > It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data > from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention > new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving > data from Nearmap. > Why? Are their new cr

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

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 12:36, John Smith wrote: > I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived > data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less > than a share alike license, while the ODBL may be compatible, the new > Contributor Terms (CTs) aren't so on top

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

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

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 July 2010 05:36, John Smith wrote: > > 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 > If there are any known entries missing, please add them. LWG has put out a request for this earlier, but it m

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

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 July 2010 00:08, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog >> >> *snip* > Grant > What's the lower limit for inclusion on this list?  It says rather vaguely > "more than a few hundred nodes". > > 80n > Those that imported the data, they make

Re: [talk-au] Revert 5439540?

2010-08-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 9 August 2010 15:51, Markus wrote: > You are right, > > That account was also only created 13 hours ago. > > I just downloaded the changeset in JOSM and I will revert it shortly. > > Not sure what to do with the user though. > Assume it was an innocent mistake, offer help. If it continues and

Re: [talk-au] Dislike the new wiki skin?

2010-08-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 9 August 2010 23:01, John Smith wrote: > On 10 August 2010 07:54, 16 wrote: >> Just being evil-minded and petty; I wonder if this hint should be added >> (discretely) to, say, the Australian Tagging Guidelines. Might as well >> keep up the image of "them ignorant Southern Hemisphere hicks wot

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

2010-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 August 2010 11:26, John Smith wrote: > > Grant pasted this from LWG minutes on IRC earlier today: > > "It wasn't well received. It would be overly restrictive for the > project. Who knows what we'll be doing in 10 years time?" > Misquoted. That is not for the LWG minutes. That is my person

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of Australian data

2010-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 12 August 2010 12:28, Nick Hocking wrote: > > It seems as though if someone ran a bot to add just one tag to most of the > streets in (say) Canberra and then failed to > agree to a re-licence, then all those streets in Canberra would be thrown > away in their entirety (or hidden from publicatio

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of Australian data

2010-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 12 August 2010 13:07, John Smith wrote: > On 12 August 2010 22:03, Liz wrote: >> I can immediately think of an edit which could fall into the above category, >> and it would not be classified as "abusive" because it did add additional >> information to the tags. > > Not only that, but others o

Re: [talk-au] Deletion of Australian data

2010-08-12 Thread Grant Slater
On 12 August 2010 13:05, Nick Hocking wrote: > Ok - just to clarify. > > If I've edited a road then the bot does it's thing and then I make further > improvements, > the bots effect can be automatically  removed without losing either of my > edits. > I don't know the details yet, but the document

[talk-au] Update from Licensing Working Group

2010-08-25 Thread Grant Slater
OSM AU, Just a quick update... The Licensing Working Group (LWG) is still in positive discussion with NearMap. Unfortunately we have been unable to schedule a conference call this week due to difficult scheduling (EDT, BST, CEST & WST timezones). We have a call scheduled for early next week. The

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 September 2010 14:28, Michael Hampson wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone know if we have lost the use of NearMap as a background or is >>> there an issue with Potlatch 1.4? >> >> Nearmap withdrew their support for the people using the new contributor >> terms. The OpenStreetMap foundation is current

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 September 2010 15:14, Simon Biber wrote: > > Who was it prompted by? Did NearMap themselves request it? > There was a specific question from a AU community member to NearMap if the option should be removed. They said yes. <-- Third hand, I was not part of the discussion. > I don't see why

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 September 2010 23:46, John Smith wrote: > On 16 September 2010 08:38, Richard Weait wrote: >> Sure.  Aren't there AU gov't sources that would be nice to have >> permission to use? > > You keep seeming trying to divert attention from the major issue, the > CTs won't allow anything other than

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 22 November 2010 20:02, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > I find this quite offensive. Because I have discussed things and asked > questions, while indicating that I do not agree, I have been treated > extremely rudely on other OSM mailing lists, in particular by persons > in 'high places'. I have been

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 22 November 2010 20:13, Ben Kelley wrote: > > If we get an agreeable licence for the main sources of "non-survey" data > (I'm including at least Nearmap and the Bureau of Statistics data in that - > what about Yahoo?) then this becomes a little more manageable. > Easiest first. Yahoo aerial im

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-23 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 November 2010 08:15, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Grant Slater > wrote: >>...Only 1 >> item is CC-BY-SA which is NearMap who have rights over the >> (contributed) traced data, LWG intend to have further discussion when >> the revi

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Slater
On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith wrote: > On 25 November 2010 12:57, Steve Bennett wrote: >> landuse, and at a stretch, bike paths etc. I guess John Smith will be >> mapping out the boundaries of the coverage? Should be interesting. > > There is no news here until they actually allow it, so

Re: [talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

2010-11-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 November 2010 10:32, Mike Dupont wrote: > That is funny, I hope we don't get into a forking of josm as well. OMG. > The osm trac is taking forever to load, how lame. > > Luckily we are using github, which has real performance : > https://github.com/openstreetmap/josm-plugins/commit/7402a234

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Grant Slater
On 30 January 2011 00:21, David Murn wrote: > So, what happens now?  Has Frederik appointed himself as top-dog in the > JOSM project, above and beyond the maintainer? Frederik was the JOSM project maintainer for a number of years before he handed off to Dirk and others. He is also part of a smal

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-16 Thread Grant Slater
On 16 February 2011 07:07, David Murn wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 00:04 +, David Groom wrote: >> I just want to draw attention to the survey at >> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WFVK6XS >> , the link was mentionedn Richard Weait's email to this list on 1 Feb, but I >> have to admit that I mi

Re: [talk-au] Splitting ways with ABS data, and the new OSM terms

2011-03-29 Thread Grant Slater
On 12 March 2011 12:10, Mark Pulley wrote: > As no-one has answered this question yet, I thought I'd better re-ask the > question, as it will determine whether I can agree to the new terms or not. > On 23/02/2011, at 4:27 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: > > Quoting Andrew Laughton : > > Anybody who has use

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 April 2011 10:51, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:31:53 +1000 > John Smith didn't write: (Michael Collinson > did) > >> For clarity: >> >> - This will only affect (77,000) contributors who registered before >> May 2010 and who have not accepted the new terms as part of the >> v

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2011 00:37, David Murn wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:09 +1000, Michael Hampson wrote: >> So is Phase 4 the end for those that don't agree? What happens to the >> data if we don't agree? and the data built on top of that data? > > Well, it depends what you read.  According to the wik

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap

2011-04-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2011 06:58, Ian Sergeant wrote: > On 7 April 2011 12:57, David Murn wrote: > >> If the Australian issue is so important, as others have suggested why >> isnt OSMF seeking to make a rapid agreement with NearMap as was done >> with Bing? > > This really needs to be done. > > Is wonder if

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2011 13:12, Ashley Kyd wrote: > Hi all, > > Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but found the > wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources by license. If > you have a spare moment or two and know of any I've missed, please pop by > and see if

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2011 12:07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > I don't see a lolcat on that page, was it on another page? > Certainly the lolcat on the front page of the osm wiki makes me wonder > about the IQ of the page writers > I removed the lolcat from the decline page + translations... It was the wrong l

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 April 2011 13:51, David Murn wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:12 +1000, Ashley Kyd wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but >> found the wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources >> by license. If you have a spare moment or

Re: [talk-au] Reverting a bad edit?

2011-04-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 April 2011 05:05, 4x4falcon wrote: > Completed. > > Please check the area as I don't know what should be there. > This isn't the only large scale delete by new user within minutes of signing up. Recent example in the UK: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7907122 Best we keep a

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 25 April 2011 09:41, Mike Dupont wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir > wrote: >> >> >> fosm.org looks pretty good with potlatch2. Just need a tile server or >> to setup my own again - how does one get a big fat planet.osm? >> > I think you can use toolserver fro

[talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-04-26 Thread Grant Slater
legal entity to represent the project. The OSMF is not some nefarious entity out to steal all our precious geodata ZOMG. Humbly, Grant Slater aka Firefishy Not a pommy. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-04-26 Thread Grant Slater
On 26 April 2011 22:06, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > Bluntly, > CC-by-SA for geodata is fine here. It's good enough for our government, > it's good enough for us. (Au government now is using CC-by for data). > We believe in Share-Alike. Actually, we have been brought up to believe > in share alike and

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-05-03 Thread Grant Slater
On 27 April 2011 05:42, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Grant Slater > wrote: >> >> Wait, why did the Australian government stop using CC-by-SA and move >> to CC-by? I actually wasn't aware of this, maybe because CC-by-SA adds

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Thread Grant Slater
On 17 May 2011 11:54, John Smith wrote: > It seems if you are on the wining side of an argument you end up > blocked, so I'm most likely going to start an aussie wiki and not care > about the "official" wiki > As suggested by the #osm irc channel, I think you have misspelt 'whining'. ;-) Quick r

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 May 2011 06:32, John Smith wrote: > On 18 May 2011 06:38, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: >> Set of rules made by one group, complaints handled by same group, >> prosecution handled by same group, judgement made by same group, >> punishment handled by same group. > > Grant has absolutely no respect f

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 May 2011 14:02, John Smith wrote: > On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater wrote: >>> Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own >>> wiki page, which I can no longer edit, after I left a note asking >>> people not to edit my wiki pag

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith wrote: > Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even > those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to > map data would potentially be pretty trivial. > Nearly 12 months since you raised this thread last it was

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 June 2011 06:15, John Smith wrote: > On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher wrote: >> I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across >> tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating >> above different ways. Roads are being connected to the b

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 19 June 2011 16:00, John Smith wrote: > On 20 June 2011 00:55, Grant Slater wrote: >> If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially >> for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely >> difficult for them to argue that is a pr

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 19 June 2011 22:20, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:12:25 +0100 > Grant Slater wrote: > >> We have people subverting our CC-BY-SA license right now!!1! *zomg* >> And they wouldn't be abusing our ODbL license in future. >> Case: UN: http://www.uni

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 June 2011 05:46, Steve Bennett wrote: > Hang on, here's Nearmap's statement: "All such additions or edits > submitted to OSM prior to 17 June 2011 may be held and continue to be > used by OSM under the terms in place between OSM and the individual > which submitted the addition or edit at th

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 June 2011 09:39, Grant Slater wrote: > On 21 June 2011 05:46, Steve Bennett wrote: >> Hang on, here's Nearmap's statement: "All such additions or edits >> submitted to OSM prior to 17 June 2011 may be held and continue to be >> used by OSM under th

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 7 July 2011 15:09, Steve Coast wrote: > FOSMs not going anywhere for some simple reasons. > > The people running it are ineffective, the data will be incompatible when > OSM switches, fosm doesn't have any of the agreements to derive data from > aerial imagery. I could go on, but those are the

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Bing

2011-07-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 July 2011 10:55, Andrew Harvey wrote: > It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM "yes you can > upload to OSM". > > We as a community can't verify this. > http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html mentions nothing, all > we have is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fi

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Bing

2011-07-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 July 2011 11:30, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Grant Slater > wrote: >> >> The traced data is a new work and therefore untainted by the Bing >> license. (NearMap doesn't see using aerial imagery this way.) >> The license is al

[talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-23 Thread Grant Slater
The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open license, including ODbL, provided that a) we provide primary attribution in a reasonable manner ( current

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-27 Thread Grant Slater
On 27 September 2011 12:09, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you, Andrew. > > I wonder if Grant received a similar answer but interpreted it in a > different way.  Grant? > Hi 80n, yes the responses will be forthcoming. We are waiting on some further clarifications. LWG also now only meet f

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-27 Thread Grant Slater
On 27 September 2011 11:22, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > Below I quote the response from the data.gov.au team which I received: > >>OpenStreetMap (OSM) are utilising datasets made available from data.gov.au >>under CC-BY 2.5 or CC-BY 3.0 only.  They are required to attribute the authors >>correctly, w

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-31 Thread Grant Slater
On 31 October 2011 11:18, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Sam Couter wrote: >> >> Liz wrote: >> > The answer from AGIMO (data.gov.au) will actually be irrelevant. >> >> I was hoping that the original communications would make clear exactly >> how relevant they ar

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread Grant Slater
On 1 December 2011 13:48, John Henderson wrote: > On 01/12/11 22:34, Mark Pulley wrote: > >> User "cc-cleaner"? I've had a quick look at some of the changesets, and >> they all seem to be just deleting things. I have a suspicion that the >> things being deleted are by users who haven't agreed to t

Re: [talk-au] Finding missing streetnames

2012-01-05 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 January 2012 04:57, Mark Pulley wrote: > Quoting Chris Barham : > >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 13:47, David Findlay >> wrote: >>> >> Cloudmade has a noname map style: >> >> http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=-26.758333&lng=152.854242&zoom=14&styleId=3&opened_tab=0 > > > This used to be also availab

Re: [talk-au] AGRI: 2.5m CC-BY Australian Satellite Imagery

2012-02-21 Thread Grant Slater
On 20 February 2012 21:58, Andrew Harvey wrote: > https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=72657 > > Not sure if anyone would find this useful for non-nearmaped areas. Comes > with a $250 price tag (but CC-BY licensed) and a fair bit of work to get > it usable i

[talk-au] New Australian Aerial Imagery

2012-03-10 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-au, I am pleased to introduce new grayscale imagery for all of Australia at 2.5 metre resolution. “The Australian Geographic Reference Image” is produced by Geoscience Australia and made available under Australian Creative Commons Attribution 2.5. http://agri.openstreetmap.org/ JOSM tms ur

Re: [talk-au] New Australian Aerial Imagery

2012-03-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 March 2012 09:57, Ross Scanlon wrote: >> The positional accuracy seems to be excellent. I have already used the >> imagery to add a few missing railway line sections in Western >> Australia. It takes a little while to get used to the imagery being >> grayscale. In JOSM I’ve found it helpful

Re: [talk-au] New Australian Aerial Imagery

2012-03-11 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 March 2012 13:17, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Grant Slater > wrote: >> The positional accuracy seems to be excellent. I have already used the >> imagery to add a few missing railway line sections in Western >> Australia. It takes a lit

Re: [talk-au] New Australian Aerial Imagery

2012-03-13 Thread Grant Slater
On 11 March 2012 02:18, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > framm has added it to the default JOSM list, so you can just refresh the > default sources and you should see it added to the list. > The imagery is now also available in the background layer in Potlatch2. I have also partially resolved a black jo

[talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
Australian Decliners, As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is about to run out. The strength of the project is mappers (bonus points to GPS mappers) and other contributors. If you have decided to move o

Re: [talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-30 Thread Grant Slater
On 30 March 2012 21:43, John Smith wrote: > On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant Slater wrote: >> Australian Decliners, >> >> As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I >> kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is >>

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 19 July 2012 10:29, waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: > Wooh! Finally, with those little green boxes starting to appear over > Australia, we can start to see the light at the end of the license change > tunnel. > > Show of hands - Who's going to 1) stick around and help fix the Australian > OSM map,

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

2012-07-20 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 July 2012 02:51, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On 20/07/12 00:17, Grant Slater wrote: >> FOSM worldwide has 11 mappers in the last week. (17 in the last month) >> >>Nodes edited in last week - FOSM user. >>5854 - 80n >> 2 - aharve

[talk-au] Improved AGRI Imagery Online

2012-08-05 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-AU, I have updated the http://agri.openstreetmap.org/ imagery. JOSM and Potlatch2 both imagery presets. 1) Fixed the black strip/blob issue at the overlap regions. 2) Improved the projection accuracy. (epsg:32749 to 32756) 3) Speed improvement. (Fixed double projection bug and needless resam

Re: [talk-au] Improved AGRI Imagery Online

2012-08-07 Thread Grant Slater
On 6 August 2012 12:18, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Thanks Grant! > > The cloud cover is a shame. Regarding your comments on removing it, how > much overlap (therefore choice) is there of the source images? Would > this overlay (if any) mostly occur at the zone boundaries? > Currently the 7 zones are

Re: [talk-au] Improved AGRI Imagery Online

2012-08-09 Thread Grant Slater
On 8 August 2012 02:14, Ian Sergeant wrote: > On 7 August 2012 22:54, Grant Slater wrote: > >> >> Currently the 7 zones are stacked left to right. >> I quickly hacked up a right to left stack: >> http://agri.openstreetmap.org/?layers=0B0 >> tms url is: http:

Re: [talk-au] A new user's edits

2012-08-23 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 August 2012 12:07, Sam Russell wrote: > Could someone have a look over CoolDude16501 's edits? The railway line > running under the Pacific Ocean looks suspect, and the user's response to an > email isn't heartening. As a new user myself, I'm not equipped to deal with > the welcoming, inves

Re: [talk-au] A new user's edits

2012-08-23 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 August 2012 12:07, Sam Russell wrote: > Could someone have a look over CoolDude16501 's edits? The railway line > running under the Pacific Ocean looks suspect, and the user's response to an > email isn't heartening. As a new user myself, I'm not equipped to deal with > the welcoming, inves

[talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?

2012-10-04 Thread Grant Slater
OSM Australia, Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Australia now has a map caching server located in Brisbane. The server is used to speed up the standard tile.osm.org "Mapnik" map style. Browsing the map on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ should now be more responsive. This new server, named

[talk-au] Mini Milestone

2013-01-22 Thread Grant Slater
Talk-au, Seems a few weeks ago the OSM Australia extract size surpassed the pre-redaction extract size.* 128MB - http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/australia-oceania/australia.osm.pbf vs 125MB - http://download.geofabrik.de/osm-before-redaction/australia-oceania/australia.osm.pbf *: