Re: [talk-ph] Bulk contributors in the Philippines and the ODbL license

2009-03-05 Thread maning sambale
I am also monitoring the exchanges (hundreds!) regarding the license change. But honestly, there's too much noise than signal. I think we need to clear up the air a little bit to get an objective sense on what the license will be and its implications to our personal contributions and bulk imports.

Re: [talk-ph] Bulk contributors in the Philippines and the ODbL license

2009-03-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Mike, I think maning can answer this more fully since he's the one who keeps tabs on all of the bulk imports in the Philippines. But as far as I am aware, all of the really bulk imports come from public domain data sources (e.g., the Naga City GIS import). Regards, Eugene / seav On Fri, Mar

Re: [talk-ph] OSM's new license process

2009-03-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Mike, I'm pretty sure that almost all Filipino contributors would be amenable to adopting the new license. Many just want to create maps and don't really care about the license (as long as they can use it themselves); some even contribute to Google Map Maker which has definitely a vastly differ

[talk-ph] Bulk contributors in the Philippines and the ODbL license

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Collinson
Hallo again, Regarding the OSM's new license process that I just emailed about, I have a question for you. With Germany, the Philippines community has taken an aggressive lead in getting contributions of bulk data from government authorities. Is it necessary to make them aware that we may move

[talk-ph] OSM's new license process

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Collinson
Hi guys, I recently joined the OSMF License Working Group in order to assist with the workload in working with the OSM community in migrating to a new clearer license for OSM data. I've copied below an announcement made to the OSM legal-talk mailing list and you can find similar information at

Re: [talk-ph] First Philippine mapping party

2009-03-05 Thread Marloue Pidor
I cannot go with you guys, I have an exhibit at SM Megamall on March 12-14, and I'm with my ECE students for the Smart SWEEP Innovation Awards. murlwe <-Original Message-> >From: maning sambale [emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com] >Sent: 3/5/2009 11:03:29 AM >To: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org >Subj