[Talk-us] Whole-US Garmin Map update - 2016-01-20

2016-01-23 Thread Dave Hansen
These are based off of Lambertus's work here: http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl If you have questions or comments about these maps, please feel free to ask. However, please do not send me private mail. The odds are, someone else will have the same questions, and by asking on the talk-us@

Re: [Talk-us] osm meetup in austin ?

2016-01-23 Thread Andy Wilson
Hey there Rihards. Welcome to Austin! We have a small (but growing) group of OSMers and can definitely make a mapping party happen. We've not been posting to that wiki page out of ignorance to its existence, but there have been a few OSM events and meetups in the past year or so. If you already

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

2016-01-23 Thread Jack Burke
You can copyright a publication of facts, too. I could publish a book called Ugly Red Things and copyright it. But nothing would stop you from publishing your own book, Red Things That I Find Ugly. On January 23, 2016 1:48:51 PM EST, Russ Nelson wrote: >Kevin Kenny writes:

Re: [Talk-us] Fwd: State Park Boundary shp file

2016-01-23 Thread Kevin Kenny
On 01/23/2016 01:48 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: New York courts are free to rule any way they want, but copyright doesn't allow you to own facts. This is well-adjudicated in higher courts. If you could claim a copyright on facts, you could control people's speech, and the First Amendment does not

Re: [Talk-us] users cam98 and cameronk1998 causing issues around austin

2016-01-23 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Sun, 2016-01-24 at 07:34 +0200, Rihards wrote: > these two new useraccounts seem to be used by the same person : > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/cam98 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/cameronk1998 This may well be the same user as an account named Cam4rd98, which I remember causing

[Talk-us] potentially incorrect addresses in austin import

2016-01-23 Thread Rihards
data from http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Austin,_TX/Buildings_Import might be slightly incorrect - see the buildings on both sides of http://osm.org/go/Ts0vgp2HQ?layers=N= one had no housenumber, and one seemingly had incorrect housenumber. didn't spot information on where to report

Re: [Talk-us] osm meetup in austin ?

2016-01-23 Thread Rihards
On 2016.01.23. 19:39, Andy Wilson wrote: Hey there Rihards. Welcome to Austin! We have a small (but growing) group of OSMers and can definitely make a mapping party happen. We've not been posting to that wiki page out of ignorance to its existence, but there have been a few OSM events and

[Talk-us] users cam98 and cameronk1998 causing issues around austin

2016-01-23 Thread Rihards
these two new useraccounts seem to be used by the same person : https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/cam98 https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/cameronk1998 unfortunately, their edits completely mess up the map - they seem to delete valid data, in some cases replace it with rough replacements that