-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Simon Wood wrote: | Hi all, | It would appear that the amount of OSM'ers here in Canada is a little | limited. especially in the rural areas. The bigger cities have be more | or less mapped out from the high resolution aerial photography, however | many of the street names are missing and there is very little detail | on the ammenity front. | | The only way this is going to be resolved is if we can get more locals | involved in the project.
I'd like a really trivial to use road naming interface for people who live on roads that other people have traced from aerial imagery. So easy my Dad could do it - click on the road and a text box with the name and a drop down of road types appears. Type the name and press enter. Make it only usable on roads with no name - for other roads / features, you can add an edit note (which should be a FIXME tagged node). It should update the Mapnik DB as well as the real DB so that changes show up immediately. | So why not just use Google Maps (or the like)? | | Although Google makes it's maps available on the internet, it is a company | that is more interested in charging people and companies to license it's | data. This "look, but don't touch" means that you can't reuse the maps they | provide (without paying), and should anything be wrong good luck with trying | to get it corrected. Google are our friends. Google don't have maps of their own. I'd prefer something like "Google makes maps licensed from commercial sources available on the internet. It pays a lot of money for these maps, funded by advertising. Although you can use the maps on the web for free, if you want to use them in another form (e.g. print them out or use them in computer program) you be breaking copyright law unless you license the maps from the original providers." | OpenStreetMap.com is different... AFAIK, it's usually OpenStreetMap.org, not .com. I think we should participate in and encourage the "this is not for profit" meaning of .org. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6QQWz+aYVHdncI0RAs0jAKDxgH6dcG9zhItTwPhWFg4Un2iWlQCgvTzR 6As0KUIp4k4WGecbZt+9Pc4= =ZDF4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
