Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-05 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Mepham, Michael wrote: > GeoBase nodes > > I can confidently tell you that GeoBase will not be creating a nodes only > data set for the use of OSM. That's okay, that was only Sam running in circles... he likes to do that, and we let him. 8) The OSM project wants w

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-05 Thread Mepham, Michael
I will try to take this opportunity to address some of the issues raised over the last couple of weeks. First off though - I hope everybody had a good holiday and is starting out on a great new year. GeoBase nodes I can confidently tell you that GeoBase will not be creating a nodes only data set

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread richard
James Ewen said: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Dale Atkin wrote: > >> I'm sorry if some of the above has come off as a little abrupt, but I'm >> getting a little frustrated over here. I feel like I have a solution >> which >> should work, [ ... ] > Dale, I seem to have missed out on your des

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread James Ewen
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Dale Atkin wrote: > I'm sorry if some of the above has come off as a little abrupt, but I'm > getting a little frustrated over here. I feel like I have a solution which > should work, and should provide a better overall mapset for everyone, and > provide means for

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2009-01-01 Thread Richard Degelder
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 00:30 -0700, Dale Atkin wrote: > > > From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf > Of Sam Vekemans > Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:43 PM > To: Richard Degelder; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; Dale Atkin; Michel > Gilbert; Mepham, Michael > Subjec

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2008-12-31 Thread Dale Atkin
After that last message I sent, I thought it might be a good time to reiterate my one point of view here. My impression is that the goal of the OSM project is to create the most useful Free (capital F Free) map of the world possible. For a long time, the only real way to do this was to ga

Re: [Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2008-12-31 Thread Dale Atkin
From: samvekem...@gmail.com [mailto:samvekem...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam Vekemans Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:43 PM To: Richard Degelder; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; Dale Atkin; Michel Gilbert; Mepham, Michael Subject: What we dont know from GeoBase Hi all, I'll try to separate the

[Talk-ca] What we dont know from GeoBase

2008-12-31 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi all, I'll try to separate the ideas into separate discussions :) We don't know: 1. Is GeoBase/GeoGratis going to make available the dataset so that it can be shown as Nodes ONLY? We need this because; 1.1 - thats how any updates can happen. ... it's like a bar-code for everything that is impo