[Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Fozy 81
Hi, Future City Glasgow is starting to release various open dataset via its portal http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/ This is great news and a really exciting project. OpenStreetMap volunteers have good contact with the project and you'll see lots of OSM data and maps being used. There is also some

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/02/14 11:51, Fozy 81 wrote: Future City Glasgow is starting to release various open dataset via its portal http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/ Check the license very carefully - at least some of the data has a restrictive license that even has a time limit. See eg:

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread Rob Nickerson
Tim, All, Despite what it says on http://data.glasgow.gov.uk/ this is NOT available under an OpenData licence. It is a developers license and would not allow use in OpenStreetMap: https://twitter.com/openglasgow/status/431063964437344256 I am starting to get very annoyed about how local

Re: [Talk-GB] Glasgow Open OS Data for Open Street Map

2014-02-09 Thread SK53
Tom is quite right, this is in no way shape or form an Open Licence for the OSGB material. Nor is the Glasgow Open Licence strictly speaking Open, as it prevents use for Illegal or Immoral purposes without defining the latter. It is another pernicious OGL fork. Ironically, one of the suggested

[Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-09 Thread Donald Noble
Hi All, The user robbief14 [1] has changed sections of the M90 around the New Forth Road Bridge which are still currently under construction to live motorway. They had also deleted all of the tags for the current road bridge. I therefore reverted this changeset before further changes were made,

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-09 Thread tony wroblewski
Hi Donald I had a similar problem with a user adding random buildings to places that don't exist, as well as really badly mapped areas with intersecting/crossing buildings and incorrectly tagged areas. the user in question never got back to me. It seems to me like he was using OSM as a sandbox,

Re: [Talk-GB] Possible vandalism? New Forth Road Bridge being changed to motorway from construction

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Fleming
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:32:25PM +, Donald Noble wrote: Hi All, The user robbief14 [1] has changed sections of the M90 around the New Forth Road Bridge which are still currently under construction to live motorway. They had also deleted all of the tags for the current road bridge. I