Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 07:38, Gustav Foseid wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not so, it turns out; the Produced Work freedom allows us to combine OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the addition of constraints, because

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered tiles. Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of complicating things upfront, or would it be too

[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Grant wrote in his announcement: ... Therefore, we have worked with the license authors and others to build a suitable home where a community and process can be built around it. Its new home is with the Open Data Commons

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/3/2 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: 80n wrote: I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered tiles. Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 02 March 2009 8:57 AM To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them? On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Grant wrote in his announcement: ... Therefore, we have worked with the license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 09:30, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Btw, we don't have any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb 09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they publish them to help in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you waive all right to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed. The licence discussion has been going on for a couple of *years* now. It needs

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data base, a distinction that has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:35 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: I surely understand that contributors’ names won’t disappear from OSM itself, however with that clause, someone might make a copy of the database, remove the names and redistribute it (only attributing to OSM), which will in effect disable the users of this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Also adding some contract text on http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ to cover our non-eu-database-right

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Grant, Grant Slater wrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Actually this is exactly what the license suggests: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [...] both in the Database [...] and in any relevant documentation Sorry, overlooked that. If this is in the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
80n schrieb: As far as I know there has been no attention paid to the FIL. It was grabbed at the last minute from here It doesn't look like it has been reviewed thoroughly (and the co-ment page seem to be password protected.) The requirement to include a copy of the license pretty much

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 14:14 +0100, Frederik Ramm a écrit : No. If that were the case then OSM would have gone PD long ago and we would all be mapping happily instead of wasting our time trying to create freedom from the barrel of a license (kudos to JohnW for this phrase). Ok, I believe

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I'd like to clarify the reason for two (2) licenses. The FIL is being considered for individual atoms of data, while the ODbL is being considered for major chunks of the database? Is this correct? Would it be helpful to: [1] Determine what is an atom that the FIL would apply to. [2] Determine

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on?the?signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:05:00AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not working. I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway. It’s far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership of it. Some

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:08:58AM +, Peter Miller wrote: I do not read the ODbL this way. I read that only persons bound by the license/contract are prohibited from reverse engineering. Clarification here is needed. When we find an issue like this then lets document it on the wiki and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: I’d prefer people carry on discussing issues, here _and_ on the wiki, +1... discuss stuff here, record on the Wiki, so that when the time comes to judge whether a revised license addresses our concerns we can tick off the issues from the Wiki pages. Bye Frederik --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:40:47PM +0100, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: * Waivers : thankfully I cannot legally waive my moral rights in my country, but I think it is unfair to require this form any person in the world. While I agree to collective attribution, I share some of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the game in terms of having a group that is smart and

Re: [OSM-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread 80n
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, rich...@weait.com wrote: Hi all, I've attempted to illustrate ways to use the OpenStreetMap database under ODbL and comply with the ODbL obligations. legal-talk: patches welcome! talk: perhaps you'll find the illustration instructive without having to

[OSM-talk] Tags for signposting

2009-03-02 Thread marcus.wolschon
Hello everyone, does anyone know if we already have some tags for signposting? (tagging what city-names are printed on direction-signs at intersections) I would like implement driving instructions like In 800m exit the motorway, then stay left towards 'city1,city2,city3'. for Traveling

Re: [OSM-talk] Tags for signposting

2009-03-02 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:43:35 +0100, Yann Coupin y...@coupin.net wrote: While I was discussing my proposal for route_instructions, someone pointed me to existing proposal that covered part of what I was proposing. Signposts were part of that list...

Re: [OSM-talk] Bad Bot Activity: Maarten Deen

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/2 maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com: Same here in the Philippines.  Please stop removing the highway = xxx_link tag. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Annoying... Stop stripping highway = xxx_link Just because you are smart

[OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Peat
I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart through Totnes http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF Obviously those changes have been picked up as the county boundary is rendering along the updated river bank but the actual river

[OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
The ODbL says that one can release Produced Works under any license. The Factual Information License says that You must include a copy of this Licence with the Work in a location reasonably calculated to make others aware of it. Given that OSM data will always have content licensed using

[OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link (was: Re: Bad Bot Activity)

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Grant Slater wrote: Annoying... Stop stripping highway = xxx_link The examples you gave were all of the completely undocumented highway=secondary_link. It would be incorrect to say that the edits apply to highway=*_link; I can see several trunk_link and primary_link ways in my area completely

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Grant Slater wrote: Annoying... Stop stripping highway = xxx_link The examples you gave were all of the completely undocumented highway=secondary_link. It would be incorrect to say that the edits apply to highway=*_link; I can see several trunk_link and

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Tom Hughes wrote: Indeed, just because a tag is not mentioned on the wiki does not mean people should go round removing it! Though the tag should probably be documented too, for the avoidance of future errors amongst those who attach undue meaning to lack of documentation, and too little

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Wood
I believe that there's some boundary rendering bugs that are yet to be fixed in mapnik, I've not seen this one before. As a side issue, does the county boundary really go up the river like that or just cut across the mouth? I think we need to review this. I recall talking to steve8 who did the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread marcus.wolschon
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:09:16 +, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Andrew Chadwick (email lists) wrote: Grant Slater wrote: Annoying... Stop stripping highway = xxx_link The examples you gave were all of the completely undocumented highway=secondary_link. It would be incorrect to say

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Wood
I've just added it to the wiki, and since it's transcluded on Map Features, the wiki promptly went down on saving. Hope it comes back up soon... 2009/3/2 Andrew Chadwick (email lists) andrewc-email-li...@piffle.org: Tom Hughes wrote: Indeed, just because a tag is not mentioned on the wiki

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread 80n
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.comwrote: The ODbL says that one can release Produced Works under any license. The Factual Information License says that You must include a copy of this Licence with the Work in a location reasonably calculated to make

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Aun Johnsen (via Webmail)
Maybe the coastal part of the boundary should follow the baseline as per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maritime_borders The base line is the maritime border closest to the coast, and will probably not be rendered on most maps. --[] On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:22:34 +, Thomas Wood

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread richard
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, rich...@weait.com wrote: Hi all, I've attempted to illustrate ways to use the OpenStreetMap database under ODbL and comply with the ODbL obligations. Richard These are excellent diagrams. Would it be possible to publish them in some way so that the pdf

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Wood
The reason it is being rendered is because the coastline is included in the boundary relation, not (afaik) any tagging on the coastline and/or overlapping boundary ways. 2009/3/2 Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) skipp...@gimnechiske.org: Maybe the coastal part of the boundary should follow the baseline

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, When the community is asked to vote on the license change it is the FIL that they need to consider not the ODbL. I propose that we start working on the wording of the messages that users will receive, i.e. the initial E-Mail, and the dialogue messages they see on osm.org when they are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Tom Hughes
Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, When the community is asked to vote on the license change it is the FIL that they need to consider not the ODbL. I propose that we start working on the wording of the messages that users will receive, i.e. the initial E-Mail, and the dialogue messages they see

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread 80n
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: 80n wrote: As far as I know there has been no attention paid to the FIL. It was grabbed at the last minute from here http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/open-data/open-data-commons-factual-info-licence/ I don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: Apparently the sentence referring to the FIL in Grant's email was inserted by Steve, It is nice to know that Steve still speaks to this mailing list, even if only through sentences inserted into other people's E-Mails. Bye Frederik PS: If you find any Lolcat stuff in any of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.comwrote: The ODbL says that one can release Produced Works under any license. The Factual Information License says that You must include a copy of this Licence with the Work in a location reasonably calculated to make others

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 2 de Marzo de 2009, Gustav Foseid escribió: The Factual information license, seems to be a bit schizophrenic. It says both that facts are free, and that these free facts cannot be used without including a license... That's called the stupid jurisdictions clause. Just because facts

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hello, Would adding also highway=tertiary_link be too much? :-) - Eugene / seav On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Thomas Wood grand.edgemas...@gmail.comwrote: I've just added it to the wiki, and since it's transcluded on Map Features, the wiki promptly went down on saving. Hope it comes back

[OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Would adding also highway=tertiary_link be too much? :-) I'm not sure I can think of any examples in the areas I'm familiar with. Perhaps that's just due to local road design though: link-like structures seem to be reserved for faster, more multi-lane road designs.

[OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread jean-christophe.haessig
Hello, I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed. I don't understand why an adoption plan has been put up while the very terms of the license are yet unsettled. How can the authors be so certain that no

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Peat
It's two thingsthe county boundary shouldn't go up rivers in the first place but also the part of the boundary that follows the coast would be better not being rendered. It seems to me that it must be included in a relation so that the county is an area but would be better not being

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jean-christophe.haessig wrote: Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki pages, I am under the impression that most of the participants in the discussion are public domain advocates and that they may use this license change to promote their views.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed. You are probably not alone. Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Tags for signposting

2009-03-02 Thread OJ W
A related tag to check for: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Towards ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-02 Thread John Wilbanks
Merging a few threads here again... Just to say that although I hold different positions than the ODC and OKF on this issue, the ODC project has always been of the highest legal and ethical standards, and the OKF folks as well. Jordan has run the ODC as a labor of love for years and deserves a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: jean-christophe.haessig wrote: Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki pages, I am under the impression that most of the participants in the discussion are public domain

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: jean-christophe.haessig wrote: Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki pages, I am under the impression

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

2009-03-02 Thread MP
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/*[highway=tertiary_link] - 1.3mb file Well, these seems to be quite a lot tertiary_links out there ... For example http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.95321lon=11.57331zoom=16 (not rendered though, you have to use some editor to see it) So I'd say we

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
MP singularita at gmail.com writes: As for the people who can't be reached/refused to accept new license - what about tagging such data with some tag like license=cc_by_sa to warn people that this part is licensed otherwise and keep the data in database? I don't think that would work. If some

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
Iván Sánchez Ortega ivan at sanchezortega.es writes: I'm one of the persons who consider CC-by-sa to be a risk for the integrity of the project (i.e. there are potential legal loopholes). I'd rather nuke half the user-contributed data than lose everything. This seems rather apocalyptic. What

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Matt Amos
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 27 February 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: If you take a *relaxed* view then all our data is un-protected anyway because facts are not copyrightable. With that relaxed view I'd be copying teleatlas maps by now.

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread MP
On 02/03/2009, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: MP singularita at gmail.com writes: As for the people who can't be reached/refused to accept new license - what about tagging such data with some tag like license=cc_by_sa to warn people that this part is licensed otherwise and keep the data

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/2 MP singular...@gmail.com: On 02/03/2009, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: MP singularita at gmail.com writes:  As for the people who can't be reached/refused to accept new license -  what about tagging such data with some tag like license=cc_by_sa to  warn people that this part is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 2, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: from three people I believe to be PD advocates (Frederik, Russ, me) and six That's fair to say. I put my faith in the people of OSM, not the license. The process of editing OSM is what protects us. We're a community, and if you

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
MP singularita at gmail.com writes: As for the people who can't be reached/refused to accept new license - what about tagging such data with some tag like license=cc_by_sa I don't think that would work. Well, if you need the data for personal use - you can use them even with mixed license. If

[OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
[I sent a message about this to the list last week, but it got lost somewhere] Most of the individual country pages on the OSM wiki have a box on the right generated using the 'place' template. This gives a link to view the country on the main slippy map and also to view it in various external

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 14:56 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data base, a distinction that has not yet

[OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap: Cross Country Ski Trails.

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Wood
Hi all, Having 'gotten into' cross country skiing this winter I have been mapping the trails at our local spot, however OpenPisteMap is not quite working as I would expect. I have tagged the trails a 'highway=footway' and 'piste:type=nordic' as these trails are multi-use; cycling and walking

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Ed Avis wrote: [Add Keep Right! to Template:places] Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 15:48, Ed Avis wrote: [I sent a message about this to the list last week, but it got lost somewhere] Most of the individual country pages on the OSM wiki have a box on the right generated using the 'place' template. This gives a link to view the country on the

[OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works

2009-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM database. Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement. This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions specifically includes images in the definition of Produced Work. I further believe

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
Andrew Chadwick (email lists andrewc-email-lists at piffle.org writes: [Add Keep Right! to Template:places] Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). Thanks - I didn't want to risk breaking every single country page without discussing it on the list first :-p. -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap: Cross Country Ski Trails.

2009-03-02 Thread sly (sylvain letuffe)
At present OPM does not render these as ski-trails. Is this the correct way to tag this situation, or can someone suggest a better method? Maybe OPM doesn't support rendering those nordic pists ? 2) Steep Sections: Is there a method of marking a steep section? The maps posted on site

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Avis
However I don't see a link to 'Keep right!' in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom... did adding it take effect? -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

2009-03-02 Thread David Lynch
There's another question brought up by the example below that's somewhat tangential: Does the group think that short connectors at intersections, such as a separate lane that allows traffic turning right (left in the UK, Australia, Japan, etc.) to bypass traffic lights, should be tagged as

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenPisteMap: Cross Country Ski Trails.

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Wood
Yes I know that GPS elevation is not that accurate. Says who ? I do have a ~10m vertical precision and sometimes less when stopped with my Garmin 60cx. I find it very enough for many many cases, even more than STRM models Technically the vertical accuracy is always less than the

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Chadwick (email lists)
Ed Avis wrote: However I don't see a link to 'Keep right!' in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom... did adding it take effect? It seems to take rather variable effect, which is odd. From where I'm sitting: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bradford - works

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:10 PM, John Wilbanks wilba...@creativecommons.orgwrote: If Big Company decides to run a mechanical turk contest on Amazon to extract facts from your DB one at a time, do they violate the license without having ever signed it - can they possibly be bound by it if they

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 16:48, Ed Avis a écrit : I'd like to request that 'Keep right!' http://keepright.ipax.at/ be added to this list.  It checks various map errors, not all of which are covered by maplint or the other tools. Hey, I just discovered this site, it's great! I've quickly

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:00 +, Kevin Peat wrote: It's two thingsthe county boundary shouldn't go up rivers in the first place but also the part of the boundary that follows the coast would be better not being rendered. It seems to me that it must be included in a relation so that

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Milenko
Such a cool tool. I wish it worked for the rest of the world. :( Is the source available that it could be run on another site? I have a server sitting doing nothing that might be good for something like this. -Jeremy -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Peat
Thanks Jon, that's great. Kevin Jon Burgess wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:51 +, Kevin Peat wrote: I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart through Totnes http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF Obviously those

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Jason Cunningham
I'm still a relative newbie, and am confused about how this could get added to the Mapping Features. I guess like a lot of people I joined the osm community then immediately started mapping stuff in my local area. In the last few weeks I've tried to learn a bit more by reading emails sent to the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=secondary_link

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jason Cunningham wrote: But, although everyone is allowed to add their own tags when mapping, the community is building up an agreed set of Mapping Features on the mapping features page, via drafts, proposals and voting. No. The Map Features page is intended to be a documentation of tags

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi! Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise predominantly residential area?) Just don't take every

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Grant Slater
Ulf Möller wrote: It doesn't look like it has been reviewed thoroughly (and the co-ment page seem to be password protected.) Passport protection was a mistake and has now been removed. / Grant ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi Peter, Thank you very much for the hint to that great feature! Just added that to keepright Have fun with it! Harald In Potlatch you can enter edit mode with a particular feature already selected. We do this with OSM Mapper and it works very well and Geofabrik do it as well. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Harald Kleiner
Hi Milenko! Watch out, I could take you at your word! I am surprised that there is so much response and demand to run checks by many people. Up to now I've tried to run the checks on the whole planet but that just crashed the server. You need at least 4GB RAM and 400GB hard disk, built up

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 2 Mar 2009, at 20:51, Harald Kleiner wrote: Hi! Done (anyone can do this, it's a wiki). I think it's a potentially useful tool, even if it does use the deprecated phrase deprecated for perfectly reasonable tags like abutters=retail (how else do you tag shopfronts in an otherwise

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-02 Thread Ed Loach
Shaun wrote: This crossing of a highway and a railway needs to be tagged as railway=level_crossing Is not quite right as it should also allow railway=crossing. a crossing is a crossing just for pedestrians, while level_crossing is a crossing where larger vehicles can cross too. Hi

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Lunes, 2 de Marzo de 2009, Ed Avis escribió: Iván Sánchez Ortega ivan at sanchezortega.es writes: I'm one of the persons who consider CC-by-sa to be a risk for the integrity of the project (i.e. there are potential legal loopholes). I'd rather nuke half the user-contributed data than

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread MP
This seems rather apocalyptic.  What do you mean by 'lose everything' and how would changing to a different licence avoid that? It is my opinion that CC-by-sa poses a high risk of not being enforceable to databases. That would mean losing the share-alike rights to the data. So you mean the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread wer-ist-roger
So now we are talking about changing the OSM license. On the one hand I agree that this is necessary but we have to be quite sure that this is the right thing to do. We might lose more during this process then we gain: First of all we will lose data. We won't get everyone to agree on the new

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Martes, 3 de Marzo de 2009, MP escribió: Note that if cc-by-sa is somehow abusable, anybody that want to abuse the license using some loophole will simply grab last dump srill published under cc-by-sa instead of the new license - and then abuse the non-enforcability of cc-by-sa to

[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-02 Thread SteveC
Something that's come up a few times in chatting to people is the front page design of the website and how it's been pretty static for a long time. That's pretty cool as nobody has felt the need to hack it away and it's sprouted some cool additions with time. But there are some things that

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-02 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. There are some very quick ideas there but it's not a full picture by a long way. To get

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. There are some very quick ideas there but it's not a

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread MP
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 03:39, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote: El Martes, 3 de Marzo de 2009, MP escribió: Note that if cc-by-sa is somehow abusable, anybody that want to abuse the license using some loophole will simply grab last dump srill published under cc-by-sa instead of

[OSM-talk] Mapnik coastline shapefile update - Philippine coast still somewhat square when exported

2009-03-02 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:51 +, Kevin Peat wrote: I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart through Totnes http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863lon=-3.67974zoom=15layers=B000FFF Obviously those

[OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, am trying to compile mod_tile under debian etch. Am getting the following error: xlquest:/home/lawgon/install/mod_tile# make /usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile i486-linux-gnu-gcc - I. -DLINUX=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-02 Thread Andrii V. Mishkovskyi
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: hi, am trying to compile mod_tile under debian etch. Am getting the following error: xlquest:/home/lawgon/install/mod_tile# make /usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool --silent --mode=compile i486-linux-gnu-gcc - I.  

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Nop
Hi! MP schrieb: This seems rather apocalyptic. What do you mean by 'lose everything' and how would changing to a different licence avoid that? It is my opinion that CC-by-sa poses a high risk of not being enforceable to databases. That would mean losing the share-alike rights to the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-02 Thread Nop
Hi! MP schrieb: What about finding a loophole that will allow convert from cc-by-sa to ODbL without asking anybody? :) I think wikipedia is doing something similar with their transition from GFDL to cc-by-sa An extremely bad idea. This is the perfect way to alienate people even more and

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