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On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:22 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> wrote: > As this is new, is there a dedicated email contact to reach people > handling this ? > > Regards, > > Adrien. > > > Le 21/09/2017 à 20:17, James a écrit : > > You would need to get approval from the OSMF if you wanted to still keep > WhatOSM > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> > wrote: > >> Thanks for pointing this out. I'm clearly not an expert of legal issues, >> so the following may probably not make sense. >> >> <developer nonsense> >> The goal of this tool is to help new contributors, and making them more >> easily start contributing to OSM. If we give it an obscure name, not >> referring to OSM, then where is the link between this tool and OSM ? I >> understand legal issues, but I hope that we don't loose of sight that we >> are a community project, and we need some form of cohesion. Our tools don't >> share so much except that they edit OSM data or help people doing so. >> According to this policy, JOSM should have been named instead "Java Editor >> for you-know-which-map-I'm-talking-about" ? Doesn't make sense to me. >> >> However, if there is a way to keep the name and sign some sort of >> contract, implying that I will not misuse the name or so, no problem, that >> would be fair. But let's keep the fun in creating tools for OSM, and not >> being able to name it using OSM is clearly boring plus misleading for users. >> </developer nonsense> >> >> Thanks for reading this nonsense, I'm totally open to find a way to solve >> this potential naming issue, if someone can give me some hints about it, it >> would be great. >> >> Regards, >> >> Adrien. >> >> >> Le 21/09/2017 à 19:53, James a écrit : >> >> You might want to reconsider the name as you started this project 2 weeks >> ago and XYZosm or osmXYZ or OpenXYZMap are "copyrighted" and goes against >> the new usage policy. >> >> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:45 PM, PanierAvide <panierav...@riseup.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> As you may know, OSM has a whole set of tools allowing various thematic >>> editing and contribution. Every contributor can find something to do, >>> however when you are new to this world, you don't where these tools are and >>> which one is made for you. >>> >>> In order to make it easier discovering contribution tools, and find the >>> ones according to what you want to work on, I made a little web guide named >>> WhatOSM. When answering three questions (level of difficulty, available >>> time and if you are indoors/outdoors), you have a list of corresponding >>> tools. You can try it here : >>> >>> http://projets.pavie.info/whatosm/ >>> >>> It can be used by new contributors, but also more experimented ones, who >>> don't know what to do anymore in their neighbourhood. It might be >>> interested to show this to people when doing mapping parties. User >>> interface works as well on desktop as on smartphone. >>> >>> This project is open source and is available on this repository : >>> >>> https://framagit.org/PanierAvide/WhatOSM >>> >>> You can contribute to it by proposing tools which allow contributing >>> more or less directly to OpenStreetMap. Also, if you speak English + >>> another language, you can help translating the application : >>> >>> https://www.transifex.com/openlevelup/whatosm/ >>> >>> If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know :-) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Adrien. >>> >>> -- >>> PanierAvide >>> Géomaticien & développeur >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> talk mailing list >>> talk@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 外に遊びに行こう！ >> >> >> -- >> PanierAvide >> Géomaticien & développeur >> >> > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ > > > -- > PanierAvide > Géomaticien & développeur > > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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