Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Jim Croft : > this is not to denigrate the actions, only to point out we can do even > better in making information and data available. Yes but it won't happen simply because greed and other selfish acts will get in the way. ___ Talk-au mailin

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Roy Wallace : > Interesting. But the catch is, as you say, "only what is edited from > existing PD data". And if you have different mappers using different If that's too much of a limitation then more drastic action would be needed, nothing will please everyone all the time. > licenses,

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, John Smith wrote: > > If we can get people making editors to add tags to changesets based on > your license preference then any PD data, even if it's changed later > to become ODBL, can be collected. ... > the changeset might be good enough, as long as > the code c

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Croft
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, wrote: > http://geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/01/haitian-earthquake-emphasizes-danger-of.html including: "For example, I watched Google, DigitalGlobe, and GeoEye all work together to get stunning imagery collected, processed, and published FREE to the international

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Roy Wallace : > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Livingston wrote: >> >> It's all a matter of tradeoffs and what is most important to you - being >> able to use it for whatever you want, or getting the most data in OSM. > > Well said. Funny thing is, they're not independent - i.e

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Livingston wrote: > > It's all a matter of tradeoffs and what is most important to you - being able > to use it for whatever you want, or getting the most data in OSM. Well said. Funny thing is, they're not independent - i.e. making OSM data more usable fo

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread James Livingston
On 16/01/2010, at 9:32 AM, John Smith wrote: > This seems like a spurious argument, ok your suggestion will allow > both projects to "profit" from your data, but any additions can't be > shared back with your suggested project, nor will Google share any of > it's data back, unless it's in Google's

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 : > Hi everyone, > > As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only > one > that wants to see it happen. > > If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association > as > part of the Samford Mapping Party > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.

[talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread morb . gis
Hi everyone, As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one that wants to see it happen. If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as part of the Samford Mapping Party (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Samford_Mapping_Party_Ja