Re: [Talk-GB] UK group: Community Interest Company

Hi Rob I've already contacted Frederik alerting him to the potential benefits of CIC to the OSMF and he's replied that they'll investigate it. Regards Brian On 17 February 2016 at 22:57, Rob Nickerson wrote: > Hi all, > > One of the outstanding actions for the UK

[Talk-GB] UK group: Community Interest Company

Hi all, One of the outstanding actions for the UK group is should we set up as a regular Limited Company or a Limited Company with Community Interest Company (CIC) special features. The special features (e.g. Asset Lock) sends a clear message of our intention to support the community rather than

Re: [Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

Thanks Richard, Hugely important for wikimedia but I don't think we need to go as far as defining it for the UK OSM Group (others may disagree). Hopefully it is clear that we are saying any content/information/data that wider OSM community considers to be suitable for use in OSM. This would

Re: [Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

WMUK uses the following definition: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Open_knowledge "The definition of Open Content given in the Articles of Association says: "Content" means textual or numerical information, still or moving images, sound or music or other data disseminated on printed, electronic

Re: [Talk-GB] Redraft of objectives for OSMUK

>Hi everyone > >3rd draft following this week's concall > > >@Rob - this really needs to go in the wiki but I'm not really proficient at >wiki editing > >Regards >Brian Hi Brian, Sorry for the delay. This is done now [1]. By the way the wiki is now a lot easier to edit as it has a new "WYSIWYG"

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

On 17/02/16 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: > Before anyone goes bulk changing these OSM objects to > amenity=kindergarten (which then won't be picked up by my tool when I > next update the OSM data -- as it currently only fetches > amenity=school and amenity=college objects) I thought

Re: [Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

I'd prefer that these are classed as schools as that's what they're called. Rgds Brian On 17 February 2016 at 19:12, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've just done another update to the official data in my Schools tool > at

[Talk-GB] amenity=schools vs amenity=kindergarten

I've just done another update to the official data in my Schools tool at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/schools/ , with the small change that I've excluded Edubase entries of type "LA Nursery School". Looking at a few examples I concluded that these were likely to be for pre-school-age children. My