Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] State of the Map 2013 Birmingham

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Nickerson
Mary, That was almost a year ago - I'd be surprised if anyone remembers!! In any case why would you like to know? Rob On 10 Aug 2014 05:55, mooney.osm mooney@gmail.com wrote: I vaguely remember someone asking if there was a spare delegate badge. I think his name began with a G. Does

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging of British canals.

2014-08-10 Thread SomeoneElse
On 06/08/2014 19:17, richard wrote: Firstly a disclaimer, I am mostly an armchair mapper. I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and tidying up locks etc. (I have probably seen a dozen different ways that locks have been tagged.) (on the more general point)

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-10 Thread SomeoneElse
On 05/08/2014 07:58, Pavlo Dudka wrote: Not, it is not a job for external services. It is much better to use single service(OSM) rather than multiple(OSM+Wikidata). Personally, I'd argue that OSM isn't a service so much as a large lump of data. It has services, but these are designed for

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2014-08-10 Thread Lee Galea
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Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-10 Thread Archer
Single words have no copyright [1]. If he didn't copy it from any database which is affected by the database right [2] it's ok to add them to OSM. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright#Obtaining_and_enforcing_copyright [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right Under what

Re: [Talk-GB] City names translation

2014-08-10 Thread Marc Gemis
Can I apply this reasoning to English names for Belgian towns as well ? Where can I verify that the English name for Antwerpen is Antwerp ? What is the source of this data? Under which license was that made available ? How can someone who's local to Antwerp actually verify that the name that