Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: OSM HAS MADE THE CHOICE TO EXCLUDE MY CONTRIBUTIONS. And the decliners have made the choice not to relicense their contributions. Both statements are true. Both parties could have made a different choice, that would have led to

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-28 Thread Richard Colless
On 28/06/2012 10:28 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: OSM HAS MADE THE CHOICE TO EXCLUDE MY CONTRIBUTIONS. Now that the decisions have been made, the trenches have been dug, and there is absolutely no possibility of anyone changing

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:50 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I accepted the new conditions as soon as the Nearmap people gave the nod to do so.  And I continue to contribute to OSM, having no interest in the alternatives. Me too. But my contributions are half-hearted now to say the

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Sergeant
I've been asked the question if there is a way non-Australian based armchair mappers can help with heading towards CT cleaner version of the database prior to the redaction process in Australia. I have a few suggestions, based on some of the remapping activities I am doing. Obviously there will

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-27 Thread Sam Couter
Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: group contributed facts.  My attempt here is to respect, within reason and as far as the tools allow, some people's desire to remove their data from a project heading in a different direction to their wishes. Stop saying this! This is just not true. It

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Sergeant
Hi Sam, With 15% odd of the data in Australia perhaps about to be lost from OSM, you don't need to shout. You're data is licenced as it always was. OSM is changing. I get it. However, for those moving with the OSM project, there is some remapping to be done, so that is the topic of this

Re: [talk-au] Anything remapping an armchair mapper can help with in Australia?

2012-06-27 Thread Mike Dupont
+1 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: OSM HAS MADE THE CHOICE TO EXCLUDE MY CONTRIBUTIONS. -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep