[OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

Hey I've had an entertaining morning going through pretty much all of the posts to this forum, and many of my initial questions are answered already (OSM newbie here). I do have a question or two which i am hoping someone here can help me answer. I'm busy building an application that is looking

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

Thanks for the super quick reply. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Rob Myers wrote: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Understood. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM, brendan barrett wrote: 1. Would I be allowed to leave out the user and timestamp tags in the version that I create?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM, brendan barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Would I be allowed to leave out the user and timestamp tags in the version that I create? Could I leave out any unnecessary tags (there are a few)? Yes, you can. The

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

Yeah... but the maps won't go on the devices. they will go into the software that runs on the desktop / laptop (Windows at first... then later Linux Mac etc). Thanks for the explanation. If they really want it we'd probably release an API (and source for the API) in any case down the line, if a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

Come to think of it... that's not a bad idea. Perhaps we'll look at allowing people to import their own maps into our software down the line (provided they convert to our format... hence and API:P). We might do that if it takes off. Thanks. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:04 PM, brendan barrett wrote:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

If people want to reverse engineer it... that's fine:P I'm not sure it's worth the effort as the files won't have anything extra in them. They're just wasting time and effort that they could be putting towards making OSM better. There won't be anything in the files that isn't from the planet and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

Hi, If people want to reverse engineer it... that's fine:P I'm not sure it's worth the effort as the files won't have anything extra in them. People have reverse engineered Garmin maps not to get at the data, but to be able to use the devices with their own data. Bye Frederik