On 13/07/2011 02:10, David Murn wrote:
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:16 +0100, Dave F. wrote:
On 11/07/2011 17:56, Mikel Maron wrote:
Everyone
This thread was on the topic of the atmosphere of the Australian
community and talk-au,
-Mikel on behalf of Talk Moderators
Then, as a
, I will make some of the correspondence public so that you
can see the exact question asked and the response.
I would like to thank the Ordnance Survey for their kind consideration
and the speed in which they were able to give a response.
Regards,
Michael Collinson
License Working Group
On 04/07/2011 12:48, Donald Noble wrote:
Sorry if this has been covered before, but I was just wondering what
the copyright position is with checking details of, say a church or a
shop, on their website and then adding those details to OSM?
I would have thought that this was fair use of the
On 23/06/2011 17:35, John Smith wrote:
On 24 June 2011 01:27, Robert Scottli...@humanleg.org.uk wrote:
So - what, you're saying we should be doing the whole
list-ten-thousand-names-in-the-corner thing? I don't understand - what's your
point?
My point is, why should other sites
On 24/06/2011 10:21, John Smith wrote:
On 24 June 2011 18:06, Michael Collinsonm...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
4. At Your or the copyright owner’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or
the copyright owner. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page
On 20/06/2011 19:18, Jason Cunningham wrote:
I think using the word pitiful goes a bit far, but it got the
intended response.
As someone who spends little time reading through the mailing list I
would expected this important step to be very well publicised, and
that does not appear to be the
On 20/06/2011 09:09, NopMap wrote:
Hi!
First of all: I am in favour of the licence change itself, I have agreed a
long time ago and I was actually looking forward to phase 4 bringing forward
some decisions.
Nevertheless, the enabling of phase 4 (which likely may have happened
yesterday or so)
On 17/06/2011 14:50, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
On 16 June 2011 17:50, Michael Collinsonm...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Here is as much information as I can give. It is not conclusive so I would
summarise by saying that I *personally* (great emphasis!) have some
contributions derived from OS
Here is as much information as I can give. It is not conclusive so I
would summarise by saying that I *personally* (great emphasis!) have
some contributions derived from OS StreetView data and have accepted the
new terms without qualms. I explain my reasons below and what I intend
to do. I
+1 Much appreciated, both the statement itself and Ben's efforts to get it.
Mike
On 15/06/2011 03:36, Richard Weait wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Lastben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Hi all
As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap
regarding
+1 Much appreciated, both the statement itself and Ben's efforts to get it.
Mike
On 15/06/2011 03:36, Richard Weait wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Lastben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Hi all
As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap
regarding
As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this
Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This will
mean that anyone who has explicitly declined the new contributor terms
will no longer be able to edit, (unless they decide to accept). This
currently
For me as a personal contributor, it looks great as is. It goes out with
every extraction(?). You are making attribution credit reasonable to
the medium (CC-BY-SA and CC-BY). You are crediting OpenStreetMap and
properly identifying the CC-BY-SA license. You also have a link to
I am also very hesitant to have a specific date now and basically
support Kai's concept. Mostly the date thing is caution, I would like to
move to Phase 4 as soon as possible but think we can then take our time
getting as much ODbL coverage as possible. It is also disparate
situations. At one
Hi Brice,
The first wave went out in batches over two days to about 14,000
contributors who have edited during the 12 months.
The second wave going out now is to about 90,000 contributors who have
made at least one edit but have not contributed over the last year. It
started Friday UK time.
Hi Jukka,
Yes, it is still in use and we read everything and we we do try to
respond. Have we missed something?
Mike
License Working Group
On 04/06/2011 06:57, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
Hi,
The page
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups#Licensing_Working_Group
suggests that the
On 17/04/2011 08:39, Andrew Harvey wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Michael Collinsonm...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
...From Sunday, we will run 5 weeks allowing folks
who decline the ability to continue editing, i.e. CC-BY-SA only
contributions. The objective is get the remaining 77,000 to
Hi Eldad,
This link http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License may also help with
general information. We are evolving it to help folks such as yourself,
so if there is anything unclear or confusing, please do no hesitate to
email me.
Mike
On 16/04/2011 15:55, Simon Biber wrote:
Hi Eldad,
On 12/04/2011 22:59, SomeoneElse wrote:
On 12/04/2011 19:56, Michael Collinson wrote:
As part of the process, the legal wording of the Contributor Terms
has been improved [3] on the basis of community feedback received and
to make them more friendly to individual contributors. The
human
Hi Ed,
On 13/04/2011 16:15, Ed Avis wrote:
Michael Collinsonmikeat ayeltd.biz writes:
If you are a user of OpenStreetMap data, this does not affect you.
OpenStreetMap data continues to be licensed only under CC-BY-SA and
this will continue until we reach a critical mass of acceptance of
2010 and have not taken part
in our voluntary re-licensing program. Before being able to edit, you
will have accept or decline new contributor terms. To give time to get
the word out, this does not take effect until Sunday!
Michael Collinson
License Working Group
[3] on the basis of community feedback received and to
make them more friendly to individual contributors. The human-readable
version of the Contributor Terms is unchanged [4].
Michael Collinson
License Working Group
[1] More about Phase 3:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki
On 28/03/2011 00:52, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Sorry that I come quite late with this, it might be too late, and it
was bothering me occasionally already for some months: if we really
decided in the future to change the license, isn't 3 weeks a little
short for such an important issue? I am
This is a general question for discussion from the License Working
Group. I may also ask on the main list as the constituency is different.
There are now 1 to 2 reports every month of folks violating OSM's
license by using OSM's data or maps without any or without adequate
CC-BY-SA
There are now at least 1 to 2 reports every month of folks not giving us
proper CC-BY-SA attribution. These are mostly websites but include
poster advertising, a TV advertisement and a TV show.
We need a reliable process for dealing with these.
Currently, the License Working Group has been
At 12:32 10/02/2011, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Henry Gomersall [mailto:h...@cantab.net] wrote:
Sent: 10 February 2011 11:07 AM
To: Peter Miller
Cc: Talk GB
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect use of OS VectorMap District when mapping?
On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 10:30 +, Peter Miller
At 13:29 09/03/2011, Chris Hill wrote:
On 09/03/11 11:57, Michael Collinson wrote:
At 12:32 10/02/2011, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote:
Henry Gomersall [mailto:h...@cantab.net] wrote:
Sent: 10 February 2011 11:07 AM
To: Peter Miller
Cc: Talk GB
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect use
Jason, Yes, I'll try to do this over the weekend. Give me an off-line
poke if I forget.
Mike
At 14:45 09/03/2011, Jason Cunningham wrote:
Hi Mike,
Can you provide us with a grid ref(s) for a location where the OS
data is wrong
Jason
On 9 March 2011 13:33, Michael Collinson
mailto:m
http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3573
Congratulations to the organisers, speakers and everyone involved.
Mike
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At 01:14 13/08/2010, Liz wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Mike Collinson wrote:
At 02:58 PM 12/08/2010, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote:
PS: I'd be interested to know if the current CTs have had any legal
review from OSMF's lawyers...
Yes. Our initial desire was to have something very short, more
Hi Elliot,
For me, yes and yes but. I mapped most of central Sydney myself
originally and am delighted. Your use clearly indicates two separate
layers which the community says is OK, you don't need to share alike
the 3D model ... though perhaps you can consider it? As for the
credits,
I have been away from the grand fray for several weeks due to
personal matters and have been catching up with threads on this
list. One question, I think from Liz, was who decided to remove
data. That got me thinking as there was never any explicit decision
point. Therefore I have a question
At 09:41 30/07/2010, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 30/07/10 08:11, Ed Avis wrote:
When a GPX trace file is larger than 100 kilobytes or so, the
uploader web page
times out in the browser and the file isn't uploaded. I've got a backlog of
several long GPX traces to upload - is there some other way to
At 11:00 30/07/2010, Ed Avis wrote:
Michael Collinson mike at ayeltd.biz writes:
When a GPX trace file is larger than 100 kilobytes or so, the
uploader web page times out in the browser
As a possible short-term fix, try uploading an individual file in
.zip format. This used to work and I
At 12:24 02/07/2010, Liz wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Mike Collinson wrote:
(c) 2010 Producciones Shi-Shi Bai S.A.
oh no, copyright songs for SOTM?
will you lot have to pay to sing them?
... and with my exquisite voice, I am expecting to make huge sums
with people paying me NOT to sing them.
At 10:29 09/12/2009, Pieren wrote:
...
But the OSMF never tries to reach those who are not reading the
talk-lists or watching the forums. How many times have we seen a call
for a simple question about the new license on the diary or on the
main site page or on the header on all wiki pages ? Never.
At 12:40 08/09/2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
By the way, I just requested the creation of a talk-ko mailing list, but
nothing's happening there yet (only a handful of mappers here!).
Hopefully this sort of thing can be brought up and solved.
Subscribe to talk-ko at
At 11:40 08/09/2009, Valent Turkovic wrote:
Do you use source tag? Why and how, please explain? I read the wiki page
but I don't see many people use it and I'm wondering why.
I try to put it on everything I map. It shows fellow mappers how
accurate my contribution is. They can make a more
My specs were about the same as yours though I had to drop the
Optical viewfinder - they are now rare at the lower end. For brand
new cameras, I came up with lower cameras in the Canon range (IXUS
range and/or A450 or some such purely from memory) and in the Nikon
LX range. Sony Cybershots
As a cycleway tag already exists and is presumably (?) used by cycle
route planners, how about extending it with a 'transit' or similar
value and then adding that to road, rail ways and ferry route ways?
Just a thought,
Mike
At 12:27 PM 9/4/2008, Simon Hewison wrote:
There's a few cycle
At 02:20 PM 7/3/2008, Florian Lohoff wrote:
the wiki page for Tag:highway=cycleway has some inconsistencys. On the
right it says implies: ... foot=yes ... In the examples on the lower
part of the page it says highway=cycleway + foot=yes.
So either the example suggests setting an obsolete tag or
Etric, Thank you very much for this and continuing to work on it.
It may be that working in UNIX Operating System
debugging for a few years has turned my brain
peculiar, but I certainly find it fascinating
browsing through the tags folks have been using.
At 04:53 PM 7/3/2008, Andy Allan wrote:
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Michael Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I certainly agree that the default for foot access should be one or
the other for highway=cycleway.
My own preference is for default foot=yes.
I disagree - I think
At 03:51 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
What's the current thinking in general on what we should do with the
description tag? From what I gather the consensus is generally to avoid
anything which might be seen as an opinion, so far example serves
Dunbridge Ales might be seen as valid whilst
At 03:57 PM 6/27/2008, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hello everyone,
Richard's comments the other day have got me strongly interested in
implementing tightly-bound (to OSM ways) walking routes in Freemap. There
are a couple of UI ways in which this could be implemented:
a) Get the user to click each way
[Off original topic!]
Google certainly do access the information sent to gmail accounts
in order to deliver targeted ads in the account holders web email
browser. So the original post had me rushing to read the fine
print. I had to read it pretty carefully but access is limited to
the
If there is clearly a main trail and the rest are feeders (i.e. how
to get on/off the trail) or stubs to viewpoints or other features,
then yes I would just name the main trail. I think that is what your
example is showing, even though it is actually quite short through a
local suburb.
As a
At 09:50 AM 6/13/2008, Sven Geggus wrote:
spaetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use highway=track for paved roads sometime. In Switzerland these
agricultural roads are sometimes of very high quality.
Same in Germany
An alternative is to use highway=service, surface=paved since they
are access
At 01:57 PM 6/13/2008, spaetz wrote:
Would it be worth moving the introduction, links, wiki, shop,
conference advert, and donation buttons from the front page to an
about tab in the view/edit/export.. tab strip? The left-hand edge
of the main page seems to be getting quite long, so
Burn your Anarcho-syndicalist membership card. Sell Google. Buy
OSM. Today's Financial Times European edition, page 11, carries a
3/4 page article Way to go? Mapping looks to be the web's next big
thing with this paragraph.
At one end of the spectrum are people like Steve Coast, a British
At 10:22 AM 5/17/2008, Steve Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
I agree. I think we need to adopt a Wikipedia concept of 'notability'. For
example... A wood is notable, a large established solitary tree in a park
might be notable, but a nettle is not. Is a rare plant notable? I would
suggest
Whoops, Andy Allan.
At 04:20 PM 5/17/2008, OJ W wrote:
Would it be worth including the cycle map as a layer on the front-page map?
+1 if Andy Armstrong is amenable. It puts OSM into an area where
there is just no competition at all. And it is applicable outside the UK.
Mike
At 04:32 AM 5/8/2008, Robin Paulson wrote:
is there any intention to include contours on the main map at any
point? would it be possible to have them as a static layer (i.e. they
not be re-rendered every week like the mapnik images, to save
processing time), with a transparent background?
At 02:23 PM 5/8/2008, Inge Wallin wrote:
How should I tag a track in the woods that are designated for exercise like
walking or jogging? I tried to read the page Map_Features in the wiki, but
didn't really get much help.
All the values for the 'sport' key are just applied to nodes and areas, not
At 02:55 PM 4/7/2008, Michael Collinson wrote:
At 02:19 PM 4/7/2008, 80n wrote:
Up to now there has not been any official guidance on how to comply
with the attribution clause of our CC-BY-SA license. This means
that people either try to do something that they hope is acceptable
or they do
At 09:01 AM 4/2/2008, Stephen Wing wrote:
On 01/04/2008, Norbert Hoffmann
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, so how do I tag a section of highway that is going to be grubbed up and
returned to nature (which is happening for short sections of the A14 at
Haughley Bends)?
At 12:48 PM 3/18/2008, 80n wrote:
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Andy Robinson (blackadder)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Sent: 18 March 2008 10:54 AM
To: mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.orglegal-talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk]
At 12:09 PM 3/13/2008, Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote:
...
However it is not easy to contact new users if they wish to remain in the
background. We could however help the project without compromising privacy
if we obtained a little more information at signup (www) and then provided
those new
At 10:51 AM 3/12/2008, Franc Carter wrote:
What's the best way to tag a piece of road that is oneway except for
bicycles ?
oneway=yes
cycleway=opposite
OR if there is a marked lane for bicycles:
oneway=yes
cycleway=opposite_lane
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Cycleway
At 11:05 AM 3/7/2008, Hakan Tandogan wrote:
On Fri, March 7, 2008 10:41, Andy Robinson \(blackadder\) wrote:
I think the point was to have a little fun and show that the process of
creating tags needn't be so formal and boring. If people just posted their
cool tag usage, rather than the
What are the sort of volume points that cause a drop in price? May be
OSMF could have some Medium and Large made to sell at SOTM as a fund-raiser.
Mike
At 11:23 AM 2/28/2008, Andy Robinson \(blackadder\) wrote:
Has anyone had any high visibility vests printed/available before? I'm
thinking of
At 10:19 AM 2/25/2008, graham wrote:
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
I expect that someone with PostGIS knowledge can construct a query to
quickly identify all the parking nodes inside parking areas and produce
a list. I'm sure that many of us could write a perl or python script to
take
At 11:04 AM 2/14/2008, Robert Vollmert wrote:
Hello,
On Feb 13, 2008 9:41 AM, Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe (I possibly thought this when I started) so nobody knows
where I live/start, but I could easily not worry about that.
On Feb 13, 2008, at 19:14, Karl Newman wrote:
Yeah,
At 11:29 PM 2/10/2008, Andy Robinson wrote:
On 10/02/2008, Thomas Walraet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andy Robinson wrote:
I started taking photos in March 2006. Since then I've taken 14,000
photos taking up 10GB of space.
Wow...
When I take photos of street names, I set my camera
At 09:35 AM 2/5/2008, Rob Myers wrote:
Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
I'm still think that the foundation owns everyone's data already. When
you sign up, it says:
By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to
openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which
At 03:23 PM 2/5/2008, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Michael Galonska mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 31 January 2008 19:27:14 GMT
To: Artem Pavlenko
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rendering wish value suburb
Hello Artem,
Would it
At 06:57 PM 1/28/2008, Tom Chance wrote:
Hello,
I'm a bit confused about these tags:
railway=viaduct
bridge=yes
cutting=yes
embankment=yes
I assume that 'viaduct' covers these sort of elevated rail lines so that
bridges are just for, well, bridges over other ways:
At 12:59 AM 1/29/2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
I wrote the following two weeks ago because I felt that the talk list
was a bit flooded by administrative voting ends, voting opens,
comments requested etc. messages:
would it make sense to create a new mailing list - say
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 01:16 AM 1/25/2008, Alex Mauer wrote:
The map features page lists both leisure=golf_course and sport=golf.
Can we please pick one of these and remove the other?
Often synonymous yes; always synonymous no.
I find it useful to separately tag the place and use sport=xxx to
mean pertaining to
At 03:34 PM 1/24/2008, Jo wrote:
Dermot McNally wrote:
My favourite suggestion so far is that a second key be introduced -
either for the original measurement (my favourite, since it retains
the traditional meaning of the existing key) or for the normalised
equivalent.
This is what I was
At 03:46 AM 1/11/2008, Robin Paulson wrote:
is there any reason why this proposal has so many opposers?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Lake
it seems a logical one to me, we need to differentiate between lakes
and rivers, canals, etc.
Yes, probably logical if we
At 09:44 PM 1/9/2008, Robin Paulson wrote:
can someone explain a few things about the way boundaries work, and
their relation to the is_in key?
as far as i can tell, when a location (say the suburb of balham, in
london) is added to the map, the is_in tag needs to be set, multiple
times. in this
At 12:33 PM 1/9/2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Although the recent Artistic License case has taken a different view:
http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-open-source-
legal-decision-jacobsen.html
Hm, being neither lawyer nor native speaker of English nor American
citizen
Glad to hear that you've resolved this - I can own up now :-)
. Central Sydney was, BTW, my test bed to produce a very detailed
visual pleasing map useful for tourists so a good test case.
Mike
Stockholm
At 09:57 AM 1/4/2008, Franc Carter wrote:
Just so it's 'recorded somewhere' ;-)
I
At 12:57 PM 1/3/2008, Frederik Ramm wrote:
The talk went ok, I got a lot of follow-up questions and believe I
have recruited a number of soon-to-be addicts. The room was quite
full even though in the auditorium next door they had the Sex 2.0
talk which was announced as being about achieving a
At 04:41 PM 12/3/2007, Mark Williams wrote:
A set of county_or_other_area.poly files might be handy, also this might
be useful to work on to define the boundaries in the map, as these are
very awkward to map otherwise.
And slightly at a tangent, might not these be useful for
systematically
At 11:13 AM 9/21/2007, Dave Stubbs wrote:
I'm definitely against this idea!
For the record, I have no great urge to go metric ourselves; I just want
things to work, and perceive a point of failure in this. I realise that
programmers can easily add a comversion routine - but why cause the
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