[OSM-talk] CommonMap association is now proceeding to incorporation

2010-01-16 Thread morb . gis
Hi, I just wanted to let everybody know that the CommonMap association is now authorised to incorporate. We have 8 members in total. Both special resolutions on http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Association/Incorporation/Agenda were carried. According to

[talk-au] CommonMap association is now proceeding to incorporation

2010-01-16 Thread morb . gis
Hi, I just wanted to let everybody know that the CommonMap association is now authorised to incorporate. We have 8 members in total. Both special resolutions on http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Association/Incorporation/Agenda were carried. According to

[talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread morb . gis
Hi everyone, As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one that wants to see it happen. If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as part of the Samford Mapping Party

[OSM-talk] CommonMap, announcement - Incorporation Vote 16 January

2010-01-06 Thread morb . gis
Hello everyone, If you are a Queenslander and want to see the CommonMap objectives[1] brought to life, please attend an initiation meeting at 7pm on Saturday 16th January at the Samford Valley Hotel. This event will be held in conjunction with the OpenStreetMap Samford Mapping Party[2].

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-04 Thread morb . gis
Disclaimer: IANAL and the following is in the Australian context. Quoting Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: But...where do you get the street name from? The street sign on-site. You could argue you have copyright exemption through: Buildings and models of buildings

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-04 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi, Richard Weait wrote: Or as the JOSM message page says, Don't copy from other maps We don't copy from other maps. Fine. If I am in a foreign place and I ask a local what the name of the road is, and he draws out his A-Z (saying: I've been

Re: [OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

2010-01-04 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Anthony o...@inbox.org: What would Wikinews be like if they had a rule which said don't copy from other news articles, Well that's different: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s103b.html --- COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 103B Fair dealing for purpose of

[OSM-talk] CommonMap, announcement - geodata repository without Share-Alike.

2009-12-18 Thread morb . gis
Hello OpenStreetMappers, I acknowledge that the OSM leadership is serious about baking in the ShareAlike requirement into the allowed usage of OSM data. I also acknowledge that there is a significant proportion of contributors that are happy for their works to be used more broadly. If you

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-17 Thread morb . gis
The first exit (west on Ginninderra Drive) isn't being counted as an exit because that exit point is also my entry point. Well, I would rather represent geometrical reality than play tricks for routers. Take a comparative example: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-28.0917,153.3945z=19t=k

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Anthony o...@inbox.org: Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from people who don't agree is going to get dropped. At least for the contributors who don't respond one way or the other. It's just going to destroy too much of the database. Wow, this

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap Gold Coast

2009-11-23 Thread morb . gis
Argh, never mind, I think it was a caching issue. I had been trying it out the last few days. Quoting morb@beagle.com.au: Quoting Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Nearmap (http://www.nearmap.com/) now has imagery available for the Gold Coast, QLD area. There seems to be a bug just

[OSM-talk] NearMap and OpenAerialMap

2009-11-18 Thread morb . gis
Just a quick thought I just realised that NearMap is doing most of the job of the OpenAerialMap concept. I wonder if there is some scope to combine the efforts? Brendan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

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

2009-11-10 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: Brendan, Brendan Morley wrote: Is there some way we can get this backported to -tested? JOSM r2405 has Please send me the version number of the slippymap plugin you are using and I will try to patch that version. The latest version of the plugin

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

2009-11-10 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de: John Smith wrote: I can host stuff like this, just email it to me off list. Thanks to John the plugins are now available in a more convenient location. The plugin for -latest is @ http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/slippymap-latest.jar @

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-30 Thread morb . gis
Well, they saved me the trouble, it's just gone up earlier this afternoon. Just look for the mashup australia blog post. The post points to data.australia.gov.au, go to the Geography category and go nuts. (-: As for the Qld DCDB-lite dataset, I'll have to load it into my WMS server over the

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-29 Thread morb . gis
Quoting John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Does anyone know what ended up getting released yesterday, if it's available yet, or when it's likely to be? I concur it does not appear to have made an appearance on the front page of gov2.net.au yet. I'll have to ask around but it might take a

[OSM-talk] Greenland street and aerial geodata to OSM

2009-02-12 Thread GIS
Asiaq Greenland Survey holds a repository of digital geodata: orthorectified imagery of towns and villages and overview maps with streets, buildings, footpaths, shoreline, lakes etc. They can be seen on http://en.nunagis.gl by choosing a town on the drop down box. By a donation we are able