One thing we should consider is the domain name. I doubt we can afford woq.com :)
These names were proposed woq 2 wdoqs wdosm woqs q936 And these proposed names have OSM in them, so likely are not good according to Legal wosm 2 wikosm wikidosm On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > I believe there is a slight misunderstanding, while remixing > OpenStreetMap/OSM/etc in various ways may result in cutesy copycat domain > names they simply do not jibe well with reality. > > Not only does every single one of them weaken the standing of the marks > themselves and make is increasingly difficult to take action against > misuse, they are further uncontrollable liabilities for the whole > community. I gave the example of OpenWeatherMap, but there are others that > would be really painful if they ended up in the hands of your fav giant > tech corp. > > That said, I'm not sure why you believe the policy has broken something, > with the exception of a few local chapters, to my knowledge, the OSMF has > never granted a licence to anybody to use the marks in a domain name. As > outlined in the FAQ we will be operating a grandfathering scheme to > legalize such use after the fact so actually making such use legit for the > first time. > > And yes: WoQ would be a wonderful name for Yuris service and shows that it > is completely possible to break out of the old schema of simply copying OSM. > > Simon > > Am 17.09.2017 um 15:57 schrieb Yves: > > So, no OpenSparqlMap, then? :( > Sad, this policy definitely broke something. > Yves > > Le 17 septembre 2017 12:58:12 GMT+02:00, Blake Girardot > <bgirar...@gmail.com> <bgirar...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> How does this relate to the new draft trademark policy? >> >> I can't tell from the draft policy, but I believe that OSM at least is >> a protected mark, not sure about osm. >> >> But I do think Simone Poole asked the community to stop naming things >> with osm trademarks in them or variations on openstreetmap phrase. >> >> Cheers >> blake >> >> On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> >> <yuriastrak...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The new service is getting more and more usage, but it lacks the most >>> important thing - a good name. So far my two choices are: >>> >>> * wikosm >>> * wikidosm >>> >>> Suggestions? Votes? The service combines Wikidata and OpenStreetMap >>> databases, and uses SPARQL (query language) to search it, so might be good >>> to reflect that in the name. >>> >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata%2BOSM_SPARQL_query_service >>> >>> P.S. I know this is the hardest problem after off-by-one and caching... >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing > listtalk@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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