Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

On 16 June 2011 14:48, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: That it was drafted, carefully, by a lawyer I do not doubt. But lawyers draft things on instruction to achieve particular goals. My understanding from Ben's comment is that one of the goals of nearmap is that derived works are

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

On 16 June 2011 14:48, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: That it was drafted, carefully, by a lawyer I do not doubt. But lawyers draft things on instruction to achieve particular goals. My understanding from Ben's comment is that one of the goals of nearmap is that derived works are

Re: [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

On 15 June 2011 19:52, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: sorry to be pedantic, but when you say the second paragraph allows edits submitted before the 17th of June 2011 under CC-BY-SA (i.e., by someone who hadn't accepted the new CTs at the time of submission) . to stay in

Re: [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

. James Andrewartha -- *Ben Last* *Development Manager, HyperWeb* [image: nearmap.com] http://www.nearmap.com *T:* +61 8 9321 9340 | *D:* +61 8 6140 7212 | *F:* +61 8 9321 6876 | *M:*+61 423 475 673 *W:* www.nearmap.com | *A:* Ground Floor, 66 Kings Park Road, West Perth WA 6005 [image

[OSM-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

of derived works under unspecified future licences. Regards Ben -- *Ben Last* *Development Manager, HyperWeb* [image: nearmap.com] http://www.nearmap.com *T:* +61 8 9321 9340 | *D:* +61 8 6140 7212 | *F:* +61 8 9321 6876 | *M:*+61 423 475 673 *W:* www.nearmap.com | *A:* Ground Floor, 66 Kings Park

[talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

of derived works under unspecified future licences. Regards Ben -- *Ben Last* *Development Manager, HyperWeb* [image: nearmap.com] http://www.nearmap.com *T:* +61 8 9321 9340 | *D:* +61 8 6140 7212 | *F:* +61 8 9321 6876 | *M:*+61 423 475 673 *W:* www.nearmap.com | *A:* Ground Floor, 66 Kings Park

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- *Ben Last* *Development Manager* [image: nearmap.com] http://www.nearmap.com [image: leave us a message on facebook] http://www.facebook.com/nearmap [image: follow

Re: [talk-au] temp name change

of the quote nor do i know the original source thanks Jim ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement: Availability of True Offset web service

oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

is being uploaded to OSM-F's API address. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Aligning admin boundaries (including those resulting from ABS 2006 imported data) to coastline..

On 21 January 2011 13:23, ed...@billiau.net wrote: He was just telling us that the eastern border of WA is the only one which is the same on the ground as in statute. Presumably so that we know for sure when the cane toads cross it? :) Sorry, I'll go back to flood surveys! Cheers b -- Ben

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 January 2011 16:18, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Cloudbase was at 1600' last time James looked at it, which is a bit too low; I just spoke to him and whilst we can fly at 1000' if we want (for a 1cm survey), the buildings in Brisbane are a bit higher than

Re: [talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

to redirect via any 3rd parties, or even our own servers. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

supports? http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.481832,153.026254z=20t=knmd=20110113 Stephen On 15 January 2011 11:03, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Just FYI, the nearmap.com images of the Brisbane CBD are now up - 2cm resolution and taken on the 13th (from plane to web in 36 hours). Next

Re: [talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

the surveys as they go online (I think Ipswitch is next). Cheers b On 15 January 2011 12:54, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:29:01 +0800 Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Also: we're being linked like crazy from several major media sources, so if you can ensure you

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

:45 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi - yes, in the interests of time we skipped Multiview for these surveys so as to get the PhotoMaps up faster. cheers b So you guys didn't collect the multiview imagery, or is it processing and will be up at a later date? The terrain looks

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

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Re: [talk-au] Question about source of low-resolution NearMap images

-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

true that our major concern is the absence of share-alike. Can't comment on the attribution since we haven't recently discussed (internally) whether level 1 attribution would be ok. Regards Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ legal-talk

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

: New nearmap imagery from 7th December of flooding in Wagga I just noticed. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

-20 at 10:49 +0800, Ben Last wrote: The nearmap.com twitter feed (or Facebook, if you prefer) is your friend... we announce flight starts, flight ends and publication of new surveys. It appears you missed the URL: http://twitter.com/NearMap This URL also works as an RSS feed. David

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

On 27 November 2010 06:25, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: For addressing, I guess it is usually sufficient to have a street name - the exact addr:housenumber stuff is not needed I assume? Something I can comment on (speaking as just me, not nearmap for once!) having been looking recently

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

On 27 November 2010 06:25, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: For addressing, I guess it is usually sufficient to have a street name - the exact addr:housenumber stuff is not needed I assume? Something I can comment on (speaking as just me, not nearmap for once!) having been looking recently

Re: [talk-au] JOSM Preset

with other editing programs and they aren't top of mind. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Nearmap vs CTs: any progress?

, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: In order to derive data from nearmap.com PhotoMaps, you must agree to our community licence, which says: If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Nearmap vs CTs: any progress?

of the CTs requires that you grant OSMF a much wider licence than CC-BY-SA, which you can't do, because you only have the right to distribute your derived work under CC-BY-SA. Regards Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Nearmap vs CTs: any progress?

://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

[OSM-talk] Gov access report for September

, so all we can deduce from this is that the ones marked 'Yes' are definitely licensed. Apologies for the delay in getting this done. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager NearMap.com reports2010-09-01-2010-10-01.xlsx Description: application/vnd.openxmlformats

Re: [OSM-talk] Gov access report for September

Damn... I inadvertently sent an internal email to this list. Any help in removing this from archives would be greatly appreciated (I've emailed the list owner). I've never heard that mailman has the ability to redact an email once sent, but if it does, any help on that would also be

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

15, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Nearmap withdrew their support for the people using the new contributor terms. The OpenStreetMap foundation is currently working to resolve the issue with Nearmap. Such a discussion happened yesterday evening with Ben last

Re: [OSM-talk] iPad app

___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

that it's not our place as a company to try and direct or influence the direction of OSM. That's for the community and OSMF to debate and decide. Regards Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

on a monthly basis, I've asked for a rough time line indication. See http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/companyInfo.do?by=asxCodeasxCode=IPR#headlinesand look at the 28/07/10 ASX update. The same document also mentions coverage at State and Federal level. Regards Ben -- Ben Last Development

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

Apologies to SteveC; I only saw your email about posting to the legal list after I'd sent this, and previous emails. Regards Ben -- Forwarded message -- From: Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com Date: 20 August 2010 08:23 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM

[talk-au] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

that it's not our place as a company to try and direct or influence the direction of OSM. That's for the community and OSMF to debate and decide. Regards Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] License Upgrade - Stage Two Begins

I'd just like to mention that we have our lawyers looking at the CTs and the licences (in fact I was in a long meeting about that just yesterday) and we'll be responding to the LWG shortly. After that I hope we'll be able to make our position clear on the mailing lists. Regards Ben -- Ben Last

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

that is good for everyone - OSM-F, OSM admin team, editor developers, and most importantly for mappers? From the NearMap point of view, I'd welcome that :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

what the Edit button on the current site does, it's our standard response by email and in our forums. When we roll out the simpler edit, OSM (essentially, potlatch on OpenStreetMap.org) will be the advanced edit option. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

up, then maybe we have no choice and we'll have to rework what we've built. The problem I have right now is that I see conflicting advice from people who are all part of the OSM community - there is no single answer here. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution of OSM on nearmap.om?

talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

images under CC-BY-SA, to remove that risk. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution of OSM on nearmap.om?

rich...@systemed.net wrote: Ben Last wrote: More seriously, though, this question has already been raised, and we follow the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F and credit OpenStreetMap in the same way

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

if need be. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing

Actually, NearMap already do OSM tiles for the whole world, down to z=24, if you really want to zoom in that far... Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

edits reverted? I'm looking for whatever way is least load on us *and* those in OSM who maintain the data. Cheers Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

is a couple of weeks old at the time that an issue is spotted. Cheers b On 4 August 2010 08:32, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: On 3 August 2010 18:13, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Can somebody revert this edit

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing

dynamically render all the tiles (albeit with a fair amount of caching) so as we deploy new styles the changes happen automatically. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

On 4 August 2010 09:45, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Ben Last wrote: the edits that we're submitting all come from one user (that represents NearMap) since we don't (and can't) require users of our site to all be registered with OSM. Um... this is the sort of stuff

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

any known problem yet with ODbl, but we do have concerns over the potential for derived works based on our data to be relicensed under some new, as yet undefined, licence at some point in the future. This posting also emailed (slightly changed) to le...@osmfoundation.org. Cheers Ben -- Ben Last

Re: [talk-au] tagging the source of edits

datahttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nearmap#Attributionalso mentions the tag. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] tagging the source of edits

this point very well :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] tagging the source of edits

? Could you share it? Hmm... I'll ask that question internally :) But it would be valid within Australian only, and (as is disclosed in our latest ASX release), our ambitions lie wider than that :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

the accurate locations of stuff on the ground, and you can put that derived data into OSM. Cheers Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

pretend to have followed in the exhaustive detail to know if the LWP had a good reason not to write it that way from the start :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

as the source of OSM data. That's not an arbitrary choice we make; it's important to the way we operate our business (our aims and our business model are publically available). Cheers Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

of use. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki You can also take it as read that many of us here at NearMap are enthusiastic mappers and OSM contributors. We're also working hard on ways to allow more people to more easily contribute data to OSM. Cheers Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

then later check out on foot to see where they really run (as opposed to what it looks like from the air). Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

.  Population approximately 42,000 in this district and a significant number would be covered in this narrow sweep. --Babstar -- Ben Last 0423 475 673 Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] scale question

this (JavaScript, which uses radians for trig): metresPerPixel = Math.abs(156543.04 * Math.cos(latitudeAtCentreOfMap * nml.PI / 180)) / Math.pow(2, zoomLevel); See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa940990.aspx for a reference. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty

Re: [talk-au] 'Restrictive cartography'

Europe for taxis for a while, the result is GPS signal is blocked or faked to abuse the system. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb

Re: [talk-au] OSM, eat your heart out... :)

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Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010 12:37, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Geocoding isn't freely available (unless your needs are small-scale). Housenumbers are the key to geocoding addresses, and without geocoding many useful applications of a map are lost, or at least made more difficult. So I'm reasonably

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

, or at least made more difficult. So I'm reasonably excited about housenumbers. -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

to osm2pgsql or the like, where ways (or sets of relations) could be joined. b Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Bug reporting problems (was: Big sponsors)

- enabling people. Motivation is another question, of course, but the easier it is to make a small but helpful contribution to OSM, the lower the motivation level has to be for your average user to decide to do it. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

and we would like to send their edits and feedback to OSM Really it's the API we're talking about. Tiles are just a CDN problem. I'm not going to suggest specific figures, but we do expect to be sending a *lot* of edits back to OSM, though not feedback. Best regards Ben -- Ben Last

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

doesn't find my house by number? Cheers b -- Ben Last 0423 475 673 Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

On 18 June 2010 12:19, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Ben Last wrote: Generally hey, my street's not in the right suburb well at least this one is what I want to capture, super simply, and have a queue to be fixed. Right now we don't capture it _at all_

Re: [OSM-talk] Big sponsors (was: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data)

On 18 June 2010 12:32, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Ben Last wrote: Well, fixing it isn't trivial, since there may be a bunch of reasons why it's wrong (or it may not actually be wrong!). We could store these and forward to OSM, but as has been mentioned

[talk-au] Natural Earth Data

Anyone know if this has any relationship to OSM (i.e, is partly derived from OSM, or has been used as a basis for OSM)? http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

just reverse the changelist. Comments welcome :) Cheers Ben -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

require users to register with CloudMade to use it, and we wouldn't get visibility of their edits (until they came down the feed from OSM). Cheers Ben -- Ben Last 0423 475 673 Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

the edits for reverting/tracking/whatever, I think John's suggestion of us passing the same rights to OSM works; we'd have to agree to do that anyway when we sign up the -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] NearMap support for OSM editing

, there is an issue there, depending on how farsighted the person was who originally traced the street :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 36, Issue 9

. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

On 9 June 2010 12:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Most aussie maps show dirt roads as a dashed line, but this might upset/confuse the Europeans... Is there no tag for paved with gold? b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] T-Shirts

, which seems to be the best full colour printing deal to me without a lot of volume. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] ISO-639-2

@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

I'm pretty sure that's the one we used. On 7 April 2010 09:18, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: It doesn't look like the actual style files that the OSM site uses are available (or if they are, they're not easy

Re: [talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

(or if they are, they're not easy to find). We will be making changes over the next few months as we tune things, though. Cheers b On 3 April 2010 10:51, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: On 1 April 2010 16:04, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Thought you might like to know that NearMap now

[talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

-F5) to see the new options. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Nearmap OSM data expanded

In case you're interested, Nearmap are now serving OSM data for the whole world, rendered from the 17/02/10 dataset. We also have the non-transparent map tiles, but haven't enhanced the map page to let you select those yet :) Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap imagery now extends out to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains...

of the world (or very isolated little communities, of which Australia has quite a few...). Now all we (Nearmap) need to do is capture with enough accuracy that you can read the street names... Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap made Channel 7 news

21/5m. Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap made Channel 7 news

On 19 March 2010 12:32, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: To get the higher resolution do you fly lower than normal, or just process the data more? We fly lower. b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap for Canberra

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Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

(details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nearmap#JOSM) This is still a bit yuck. Anyone made any progress? -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Implications of license change on use of Australian data sources (e.g. nearmap)

approval. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Update on NearMap wiki page

have multiple traces for a road/path. I've found the imagery to be within 1m. I believe they find error reports like this very useful to keep improving the alignment of their imagery. -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd

Re: [talk-au] More NearMap Sydney imagery...

misalignment around the western end of the westgate bridge, last time I checked. The end of the bridge disappears into water... Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last

Re: [talk-au] More NearMap Sydney imagery...

by morb-au... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: Do you work for this company, or have a contact with them? Just so the list knows... I work for NearMap (as does Alex K), and I'm happy to respond to enquiries on the list. There are actually a few of us on various OSM forums and lists, but being a public