Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: Address range information can be derived from existing TIGER data quite simply. I'm not sure how simple it is. It's simple in cases where TIGER data matches up very closely with OSM data. But that isn't universally true. And

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:38 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: This idea, of tagging address ranges within blocks, sounds like a good idea to me.  Some cities, such as Louisville, KY, put address ranges on street signs, which would make gathering such information easy in those

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I'm all for not importing data where there's existing data people can use, but in the case of TIGER addresses you could actually make a point for importing: OSM could be a platform for improving that address data (like it

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Which brings me to the conclusion that there's no point in importing TIGER address information.  A geocoder can simply try to find the address in OSM

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, Do you realize: 1. We already have a method for address interpolation. It's called addr:interpolation There's no need for new tags. Yes. In fact, I mentioned it above along with a link

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's reasonable to take a small bite out of that huge task by using data that was previously crowdsourced (via taxpayer money) and ask as many members of the current OSM community in the US to manually add the data and

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 11/2/2011 9:46 PM, Anthony wrote:  2. Cutting ways into blocks would make for bedlam. Why?  If there's no difference between the blocks except for addressing

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/23/11 3:02 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On 10/23/2011 2:59 PM, Richard Welty wrote: from Mike's comment, the name appears to likely be correct local usage. Mike's link is from Wisconsin; the way is in

Re: [Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

2011-10-23 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Can someone check TIGER 2010 to see what it currently says? I just did. It's TLID 611694054. The name has been removed. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 10/22/11 8:33 PM, Metcalf, Calvin (DOT) wrote: This is something that I've been wondering in ma, would on road sign posted routes (there is a sign on a post next to the road) be tagged differently the on road

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: this text may be found in section 1234 on this page: https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/operating/opdm/local-programs-bureau/repository/bicycle/safety-and-laws/laws.html Hmm, I just looked at the text. Did you

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/22/2011 9:13 PM, Richard Welty wrote: if there's just a black on yellow sign saying share the road then cyclists should stay to the right. Not at all.

Re: [Talk-us] Signed shared roadway

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: not intentionally, and i did include the link so people could read it, so perhaps we could drop the confrontational bit. Sorry. you will note that i didn't come back at you about the fact that there are no specs

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * Anthony o...@inbox.org [2011-10-07 16:36 -0400]: access=private is wrong if it is not private property. I understand access=private to mean, You cannot go here without express permission from the property owner.  The land

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-08 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Nathan Mills nat...@nwacg.net wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 08:44:04 -0400, Anthony wrote: By that rationale, all government owned land is access=private. No. In a park, for example, you have a right of access by default. I'm not sure what you mean

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-08 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: The access=emergency tag is documented in the wiki as meaning that access is permitted for emergency vehicles, and would seem to ideally fit this situation. Where is it in the wiki? I did a search for emergency, and

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-08 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: The access=emergency tag is documented in the wiki as meaning that access is permitted for emergency vehicles

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-07 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com [2011-10-07 06:51 -0500]: James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm curious, but how have you guys been tagging them when you add them? Define what you mean by an

Re: [Talk-us] Interstate Crossovers

2011-10-07 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: * John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com [2011-10-07 06:51 -0500]: James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm curious, but how have you guys been

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-10-01 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 09/30/2011 08:36 PM, Mike N wrote: Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing mappers in the US? It is more

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-17 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: So we could take the existing tags, where =customer is perhasp not existing, and have a hierarchy: access=yes access=destination access=permissive (no legal right, but not objected to) *access=customers access=private (no

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: As I've said on the wiki, I'd rather see access=restricted plus access:restriction=customers_only, this way we can give routers general information (that the way is restricted to a particular category) without having them

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-16 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote: The US doesn't seem to have the strict legal categories for rights-of-way that the UK does I'm not sure what you mean by that, as I'm not familiar with UK law. But the US definitely has a concept of public right of way vs.

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: So this could be access=destination , which should allow routing at ends but not for thru traffic. Well, that's not at all what the sign says. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-15 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/15/2011 9:50 AM, Anthony wrote: The sign does not say you may use the road so long as you need it to get to your destination (access=destination).  That would preclude cast members as using it as a cut-through

[Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/12/2011 7:17 PM, Anthony wrote: The fact that the land is owned by Walt Disney Parks does not preclude the fact that they have granted a right of way through it. According to Orange County property records

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: The thru-roads across WDW property might or might not be registered as Public Right of Way against the deeds, but have been open to the public for up to 40 years. What is the goal here ? We're trying to figure out

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Waste/Submerged would be correct status in 1960 prior to Disney development, not current status. Sounds like that website is not current source for Reedy Creek documents. By the way, the particular parcel of land being

Re: [Talk-us] Disney (was Re: access=destination vs access=private)

2011-09-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: There was a guard booth on Vista Boulevard near the present location of the sign until about 2005. And now I get it. This road could be used to bypass the main entrance toll booth on World Drive, and doesn't seem to

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-12 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 6:12 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars IInerou...@gmail.com  wrote: (As opposed to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=orlandohl=enll=28.394553,-81.549518spn=0.0168,0.041199t

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 3:12 AM, Toby Murray wrote: Re: Kansas Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle ...

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/11/2011 7:53 AM, Anthony wrote: The no thru traffic sign is nonstandard and very jurisdiction specific.  In general there is no letter of the law, as the law generally does not mention such signs. You seem

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-11 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: (As opposed to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=orlandohl=enll=28.394553,-81.549518spn=0.0168,0.041199t=mz=16vpsrc=6layer=ccbll=28.394524,-81.549396panoid=f638RcwkM8_a-3tntIJmRgcbp=12,335.79,,1,3.19 which is on private

[OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
Is it just me or does the thread Roundabouts and routing (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfunctional community? I'm not talking about the question. I'm talking about the responses. ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Is it just me or does the thread Roundabouts and routing (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfunctional community

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:47:37 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Is it just me or does the thread Roundabouts

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
just me, feel free to ignore this. Kenneth, can you elaborate on your post? What in my post is typical of a troll? On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Kay Drangmeister k...@drangmeister.net wrote: Am 09.09.2011, 13:31 Uhr, schrieb Anthony o...@inbox.org: Is it just me or does the thread Roundabouts

Re: [OSM-talk] The thread Roundabouts and routing

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Friday 09 September 2011, Anthony wrote: Is it just me Yes. or does the thread Roundabouts and routing (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-September/060082.html) reflect a dysfunctional community

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as access=destination or access=private? The complexes are not usually private. I'd even consider not putting access restrictions on them at all, unless there

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 23:43 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as access=destination or access

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 23:25 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:36 PM, PJ Houser stephanie.jean.hou...@gmail.com wrote: Do you think it makes more sense to tag the apartment complexes as access=destination

Re: [Talk-us] access=destination vs access=private

2011-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 00:02 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 23:25 -0400, Anthony wrote: On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 7:36 PM, PJ Houser

Re: [Talk-us] access=no with exceptions

2011-09-08 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:19 PM, PJ Houser stephanie.jean.hou...@gmail.com wrote: In Portland, Oregon, we have been tagging certain ways with access restrictions as access=no and then explicit exceptions, like psv=yes, foot=yes, bicycle=yes. Yes, this is correct. Here's an example of our work

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Richard Fairhurst writes:   [follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda]     Russ Nelson wrote:   What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is   in the public domain?     See  

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:34 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 September 2011 19:12, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: It is clearly the easier, pragmatic and sensible thing to do to simply accept the CTs. Hardly, the easier, pragmatic and sensible thing to do is just use

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: When I have a v1 object that is non-CT compliant, then we have to assume the further revisions may be derivatives. Why do we have to assume this? If CT-agreed mappers have added tags from a survey in later revisions,

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:14 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Furthermore, the goal is not to have a CT-clean database.  You already have a CT-clean database.  The goal, apparently, is to have an ODbL-clean database. I think you

Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2011 16:41, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Surveying suburban streets by GPS these days makes about as much sense as using a horse and cart on a freeway... This tracing vs survey argument is as

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is in the public domain? Isn't all data in the public domain? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Given that LWG doesn't appear to be changing its IMO daft stance that a user placing their data in the public domain is not good enough for us, I am seriously tempted to delete and reimport TimSC's data[1] under my

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

2011-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: +1.  While I'd rather see these objects go away altogether, I think a tag of name=Melbourne;Geelong;South-Central NSW Area;Central Victoria Area

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

2011-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Anthony wrote: Sounds good.  I don't think storing these in OSM, with the non-overlapping tags, is harmful.  While I'd love to see them in a separate database or at least a separate layer, the fact of the matter

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapnik rendering labels for unrecognised tags

2011-08-29 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote on 30/08/2011 11:14:32 AM: The same mechanism is used for Yahoo, Bing etc coverage. Yes, it's debatable whether meta-objects should be stored in the OSM database, but that debate

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 08/26/11 07:07, Mike Dupont wrote: If you want to sponsor me a membership than I am willing to speak. I don't think it would be received well if either an existing board member or the OSMF as a whole were to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:08 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Interestingly, when we converted an organisation recently to an official Charity under UK law, the Charity Commission wanted us to make it a requirement that the full membership list (names and home addresses) was

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:32 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Regardless of whether the data protection act was relevant, we acted on the side of caution. I wouldn't characterize withholding relevant public information from the public as acting on the side of caution.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: But board members don't have to act within the best interest of OSMF as a whole every time they give a gift to anyone! Anthony, can you expand on this, or was it a typo? I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: But board members don't have to act within the best

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: yes, this clarifies the gift, but still I think that board members indeed do have to act within the best interest of OSMF and OSM as a whole (whatever this is, asuming good

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: As for the obligations of board members, while they are generally not allowed to act in a way which harms the organization of which they are a board member, and are not allowed to *use, for personal purposes, confidential

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: absurd. Really, I'm not sure how you can even make that claim, unless you haven't thought about what it means.  When a board member eats dinner, should the board member

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-26 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/8/26 Anthony o...@inbox.org: As for the obligations of board members, while they are generally not allowed to act in a way which harms the organization of which they are a board member, and are not allowed

Re: [OSM-talk] [osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-25 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Hasn't it happened in the past that large numbers of Cloudmade employees have joined the OSMF?  That didn't cause the organization to be somehow subverted I wouldn't be so sure about that. The organization has gone downhill

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-25 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: The experience on Wikipedia is that reverting a changeset is a pretty offensive action to take, requiring great care. Really? Whatever happened to Bold, Revert, Discuss? In my experience a revert of a bad edit is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Data reconciliation. Removing CT/ODbL declined users.

2011-07-21 Thread Anthony
I thought we were supposed to only be talking about this stuff on legal-talk. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Dear All, The License Working Group takes the position that it is now appropriate to begin reconciling the data touched by users who have

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:15 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/13 Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com: On 11/07/2011 22:42, Frederik Ramm wrote:   I just stumbled across a changeset where someone helpfully added a toilet:access=customers to 1350 pubs in the Greeater

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:21 AM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: My 2p would try and persuade more people to use source tags (and tag:source tags) so that it's easier to work out where stuff has actually come from. In this case, I'd say 1) try to get in touch with the mapper to

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: There's no point in getting other people involved unless there's some sort of dispute Correction: A note to one of the lists (or in some other public forum), saying that you reverted what you reverted and why, wouldn't be harmful

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 07/13/11 09:37, Maarten Deen wrote: But you're still only voting for the comment in the changeset, right? No, I was thinking that people should vote up/down what was *done* in the changeset. -1

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Shalabh shalab...@gmail.com wrote: And to echo Steve Bennet's comment, I am at a loss to find anything bad enough said by any Richard to justify this rant. I'm guessing it has to do

Re: [OSM-talk] Commenting and thumbs up/down feature for changesets

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 11/07/2011 22:42, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi,   I just stumbled across a changeset where someone helpfully added a toilet:access=customers to 1350 pubs in the Greeater London area (thereby adding no information but

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-13 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I hadn't really thought about the pseudonym thing until a while ago when someone sent around the 'poisonous people' talk video done I think at google. One of their very first points is to note that trolls usually use

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-12 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: We can block the 'main' people. Then you have to draw the line somewhere between the good and the bad anonymous posters. I would suggest anyone who's posted that they want to disrupt the project and anyone operating

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: You're both a whole continent and an island. There is therefore no reason why data users can't use FOSM for Australia and OSM for the rest of the world - and even combine the two into one dataset. CC-BY-SA doesn't

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:53 AM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: On 11/07/2011, at 8:47 PM, John Smith wrote: Then why was there such a big fuss made over Haiti edits should be PD so that the UN could mix the data with other datasets... Because they were mixing the datasets. If

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: David Groom wrote: Are you sure?  ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent databases ..'. Therefore if you cut out Australia it cant be part

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: David Groom wrote: Are you sure?  ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Groom wrote: Are you

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
Anyway, I think what Richard is trying to say is this: 1) Create osm-without-australia.osm by removing australia from the OSMF database. 2) Create fosm-australia-only.osm by removing everything but australia from the FOSM database (for both of these extracts, use a boundary definition that's PD.

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective Database or Work. Depends on how you combine them. If you just put the files next to

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective Database or Work

Re: [OSM-talk] offering adapted databases

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:27 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Anthony o...@inbox.org How long do I have to keep a copy of the adapted database in case someone takes me up on my offer?  How much of the database do I need to keep?  Is the offer

Re: [OSM-talk] offering adapted databases

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
Ack. Sorry. I was asked not to post this on the talk list and I didn't realize until after I sent it where it was going. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:27 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. [snip] So, I think, we need to get away from this idea that a fork is a bad thing. It isn't. There are

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 08:16, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net  wrote: Can we not - both sides - agree to work on building up our own projects, and making them as attractive as possible to users

Re: [OSM-talk] Obvious turn restrictions

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I've come across a fair number of what I call obvious turn restrictions. Here's an example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1566983 The only thing being prevented by this is turning right onto Shelbyville

Re: [OSM-talk] Obvious turn restrictions

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a better example of the problem: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1591319/history North Elk Vale has been split into three ways with four relations on each side of the overpass. And for what? To

[OSM-talk] offering adapted databases

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
This is an except from a message I sent to Steve. But hopefully someone can answer these questions for me (and for everyone who wants to comply with the ODbL): If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted

Re: [OSM-talk] Obvious turn restrictions

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com writes: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1591319/history North Elk Vale has been split into three ways with four relations on each side of the overpass. And for what? To prevent a

Re: [OSM-talk] offering adapted databases

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Lets say you make a map and someone wants the data. First, are you acting in the spirit of the license? Let's assume yes. That gets you 99% of the way there, despite your technical detail analysis. I'm not really sure what

Re: [OSM-talk] offering adapted databases

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Adding a question, because your point about storage brings up a potential semi-solution:  What if I just store every database I ever use on a hard drive, and if someone asks for a copy I send them, for the cost of a hard drive plus

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

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I mean throw away the efforts of all the licensing work we've done because one guy doesn't like technical detail X or has moral objection Y. That is, that we have spent many man years on this and there is no way to make

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

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Anthony The reason we have a hostile relationship is because of all your spamming and trolling. I'm not FOSM, so that's rather irrelevant, even if it were true. I also thought that relationship had been mended

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

2011-07-08 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: At this point really the positive gestures need to come from you, for example helping us switch so we can all (including FOSM) move on. If the only way you

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

2011-07-07 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:26 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I don't see how it's reasonable to throw everything away for one guy who doesn't like his countries laws. There are more countries without sui generis database rights laws than with it.

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

2011-07-07 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I would phrase it that the vast majority aren't lawyers and don't want to become one, therefore don't know the implications of the problems with cc. That is all this is predicated upon, lawyers say that cc doesn't work for data.

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

2011-07-07 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: On 8 July 2011 11:26, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: This reads like you disagree with taxation or death. I do too, but there's not much I can do about it. The vast majority of people are happy with where we

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

2011-06-19 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-06-19 Thread Anthony
On Jun 19, 2011 7:17 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 19 June 2011 22:20, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:12:25 +0100 Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: We have people subverting our CC-BY-SA license right now!!1! *zomg* And

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

2011-06-19 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Jun 19, 2011 7:17 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: *: Correct me if I am wrong, but the GPL also doesn't have a restrictive 'no reverse engineering' clause. The GPL isn't sold as a license which restricts

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