Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-18 Thread Aleksandr Dezhin
If you look at the history of edits that user in South Africa, there you will see absolutely the same story: 1) remove the correct data 2) adding bogus data 3) removal of their incorrect data So I do not think that the problem is that he did not read the message. 2010/7/17 Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-talk] Spatiallite

2010-07-18 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 05:27, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: No, I'm not talking about Andril's talk. There was someone who had created a small app using Spatialite and a GTK frontend during the conference. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2010/Lightning_Talks it

Re: [OSM-talk] Spatiallite

2010-07-18 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Someone gave a lightening talk at sotm about using Spatiallite with osm. He wrote a blog post about Spatiallite: http://www.enricozini.org/2010/tips/osm-search-nodes/ ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 17 July 2010 10:34, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Michael Barabanov wrote: 1. OSMF does change the license without any regard; people who are against ODBL get pissed off and stop contributing (lost for OSM?). No data loss from the database. 2. OSMF does not do that;

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 20:31, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Is it totally hopeless to contact these contributors and ask them for their agreement? It kind of rubs me the wrong way when anyone brings up problems and the first response (and usually the only one) is to always fob off the work

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 21:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: but they haven't commented about the contributor terms, I sent them an email about this but I'm waiting to hear back. If they balk at either that would mean everything mapped from their imagery, which in several rural and

Re: [OSM-talk] fact-based vote?

2010-07-18 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Liz schrieb: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: there is no loss of data! It has always been said that the old data will remain available under the old license. If you take somewhere between one third and one quarter of the data for a well defined area and lock it up from

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:19:53PM +1000, John Smith wrote: On 18 July 2010 21:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: but they haven't commented about the contributor terms, I sent them an email about this but I'm waiting to hear back. If they balk at either that would mean

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 21:43, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Is this an issue with the third (licensing/relicensing/sublicensing) clause? I never fully agreed with it in the first place. Yup, the license could be changed to a non-share alike license in future, and some people are trying to push

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:54:36PM +1000, John Smith wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap. This

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:19, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: This also shows that simply asking if contributors will allow their contributions to come under the ODbL is not enough. I imagine many have That may be ok, but the CTs go a step further and have future licenses as being fairly open

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, John Smith wrote: It kind of rubs me the wrong way when anyone brings up problems and the first response (and usually the only one) is to always fob off the work and expect those effected the most to be doing all the leg work to clean up the mess this license change over is causing or

[OSM-talk] Summary of differences between old and new licenses

2010-07-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
Is there a summary available, in layman's language, of the differences between the old license and the proposed new license? I am still a bit unclear on the net effects, other than a sizable amount of the data being moved from the OSM database to a different database. -- John F. Eldredge --

Re: [OSM-talk] Summary of differences between old and new licenses

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:58 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Is there a summary available, in layman's language, of the differences between the old license and the proposed new license?  I am still a bit unclear on the net effects, other than a sizable amount of the data being

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Chris Fleming
On 17/07/10 20:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Michael Barabanov wrote: A poll could be something like: Would you find a it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to ODBL without any data loss. It should really be Would you find it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Shalabh
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Chris Fleming m...@chrisfleming.org wrote:  On 17/07/10 20:40, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Michael Barabanov wrote: A poll could be something like: Would you find a it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to ODBL without any data loss. It should

Re: [OSM-talk] fact-based vote?

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Ward
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:56:57PM -0400, Richard Weait wrote: Limiting a hypothetical (what should it be called? referendum?) to just active contributors might exclude some who have just agreed to the license upgrade. Is this the right thing to do? Should the hypothetical referendum(?) be

Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-18 Thread Anthony
Aleksandr Dezhin wrote: As I know Anthony (one_half_3544) tried to contact this user on July 8 [1]. Yes, I've mailed him on 8th, and since he uses potlatch, he should have seen my message. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Kevin Peat
On 17 July 2010 20:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: snip It should really be Would you find it acceptable if OSMF relicensed the whole dataset to ODbL without asking for consent from individual contributors, thereby making sure that there is no data loss, but disregarding

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:06 PM, 80n wrote: In other words, we were wrong, we chose the wrong license out of ignorance. Shit happens. Yeah, shit happens, OSM becomes outrageously successful and nobody abuses the spirit of the license. What kind of shit is that? People abuse it all the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 2:59 PM, John Smith wrote: On 18 July 2010 22:51, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Did imports and Nearmap tracing in Australia start before the relicensing effort, or were you simply not aware of it, or did you not take it seriously? Most likely ODBL is fine,

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
this made my day :-) As OSM has gone on I've found more and more that I'm attacked when people simply don't listen (I got flames in David Earls talk at SOTM when I said 'tag equivalences were going to be part of the original tagging system', people flamed me saying they thought that me hating

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Why? Because the project is growing very fast and attracting more data all the time. If Google or Nearmap don't want to play ball that's fine - just look at the hundreds of other companies and organisations that do, like Bing and

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: It's similar to those people saying that we should do whatever Google says we should do, so they can just use our data. Since you're bringing up Google, what about Yahoo, any official word from them on ODBL or the new CTs?

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 7:46 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Why? Because the project is growing very fast and attracting more data all the time. If Google or Nearmap don't want to play ball that's fine - just look at the hundreds of other

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 7:48 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: It's similar to those people saying that we should do whatever Google says we should do, so they can just use our data. Since you're bringing up Google, what about Yahoo, any official

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, I am a complete outsider regarding the licensing debate (and, to be honest, to the whole OSM project... I barely started mapping a few hiking trails). That being said, here is the main thing I wonder about : **Is the license change a real choice or a kind of legal obligation ?** The reason

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: John, you're painting a dystopian view based on a couple of key things - that 1) nearmap would never change their mind and 2) the 'same thing' could happen at any point. The email I received from their CEO was fairly definite about the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:02, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: If the move is for pure theoretical, GNU/Stallman-like ideology, then it is likely to create way more damage than it would save. However, if the move is about saving the project from a legal perspective, then it's probably better to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:56, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: We had this discussion years ago now and they were fine with it. As with everything else, they weren't allowed by legal to say anything publicly and were just waiting for the actual changeover. That covers current licenses, what about

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:01 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 03:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: John, you're painting a dystopian view based on a couple of key things - that 1) nearmap would never change their mind and 2) the 'same thing' could happen at any point. The email I

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:05 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 03:56, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: We had this discussion years ago now and they were fine with it. As with everything else, they weren't allowed by legal to say anything publicly and were just waiting for the actual

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:08, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Do you think nearmap are being reasonable? I don't think they are. Why are we changing to another share alike license if this isn't reasonable? I fail to see the logic here. There are a variety of downsides with working with open

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:11, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it would be

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread TimSC
On 18/07/10 19:11, SteveC wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it would be nuts because then the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to produced works - that would encourage companies to give back. Judging by a same straw poll, very few people cared about SA extending to produced works, and the

[OSM-talk] Changeset 5057715

2010-07-18 Thread Andrew
Changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5057715 added an apostrophe to every name St Johns Street in the northern hemisphere. It seems to me that this was a very unselective edit and conversation with the editor leaves me unconvinced of its value. I am therefore wondering whether

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:01 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 03:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: John, you're painting a dystopian view based on a couple of key things - that 1) nearmap would never change their mind and 2) the 'same thing' could happen at

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Only if a later license change were to go non-SA. An hypothetical situation that you have created. I'm not the only one, since some people are already proposing to push a change to CC0 after the CTs are agreed to.

Re: [OSM-talk] What if I don't care about tedious license discussions?

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I am a complete outsider regarding the licensing debate (and, to be honest, to the whole OSM project... I barely started mapping a few hiking trails). Hi Sami, Welcome to OSM. We love mapping and hiking trails and

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:17, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Only if a later license change were to go non-SA. An hypothetical situation that you have created. I'm not the only one, since some people are already proposing to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 05:17, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Only if a later license change were to go non-SA.  An hypothetical situation that you

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:37, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You are creating yet another theoretical situation, John. Suddenly, in your perspective, the community is clamouring for the next license change and the next license change after that? I don't see it happening. If you are going

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 18 July 2010 12:31, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: AFAIK the majority of data currently in OSM in Poland comes from that other project, which still has lots more contributors than OSM here. Is it totally hopeless to contact these contributors and ask

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it

Re: [OSM-talk] Changeset 5057715

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 19:56, Andrew wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: Changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5057715 added an apostrophe to every name St Johns Street in the northern hemisphere. It seems to me that this was a very unselective edit and conversation with the editor

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread TimSC
On 18/07/10 19:39, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSCmapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to produced works - that would encourage companies to give back. Judging by a same straw poll, very few people

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:18, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 18/07/10 19:39, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSCmapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to produced works - that would encourage companies to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
I never said they didn't agree to the ODBL, but that the new CTs, specifically section 3, wasn't going to be compatible, even if ODBL is. Only if a later license change were to go non-SA.  An hypothetical situation that you have created. I know you like to have personal flame war, but in

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread TimSC
On 18/07/10 21:22, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 06:18, TimSCmapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 18/07/10 19:39, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSCmapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 4:22 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 July 2010 06:18, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: It's not a question of OSMF member support, I am talking about how share-alike encourages business to share data with OSM. Then why mention produced

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:27, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: I know you like to have personal flame war, but in nutshell ODBL is share alike, so no problems here. I have two questions though: 1) Why we need CT in first place 2) What section 3 is about

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/18 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: On 19 July 2010 06:27, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: I know you like to have personal flame war, but in nutshell ODBL is share alike, so no problems here. I have two questions though: 1) Why we need CT in first place 2) What section

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:44, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: So, problem is, while ODBL is fine as SA license (for data that is), CT requires to give OSMF rights to republish data under license which so far by CT can be also non-share-alike, right? The CT is also likely to conflict with

Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-18 Thread Toby Murray
There are two new changesets today on the northern coast of Russia. Looks like he deleted 7 ways. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Anthony onehalf3...@gmail.com wrote: Aleksandr Dezhin wrote: As I know Anthony (one_half_3544) tried to contact this user on July 8 [1]. Yes, I've mailed him

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: Did imports and Nearmap tracing in Australia start before the relicensing effort, or were you simply not aware of it, or did you not take it seriously? We started imports a while ago, with the first I recall in 2007. In 2007 I was not aware of an

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 8:18 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 04:11, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 18 July 2010 19:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: And anyway, you're comparing it to an absolute situation of status quo - that we all just hum along on CCBYSA because nearmap won't work with us. We can't do that. We all (well nearly all) know that CCBYSA just doesn't work, so

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:56 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 18, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Liz wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: Did imports and Nearmap tracing in Australia start before the relicensing effort, or were you simply not aware of it, or did you not take it seriously? We started imports a while ago, with the first I

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread SteveC
On Jul 19, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 5:56 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD.

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:06 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] Maybe when you say ODbL you mean ODbL + CT, but I'll just point out that John didn't seem to oppose ODbL, perhaps the opposite, just opposing to the text of the CT.  The CT is also what nearmap is not

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 19 July 2010 01:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:06 PM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] Maybe when you say ODbL you mean ODbL + CT, but I'll just point out that John didn't seem to oppose ODbL, perhaps the opposite, just opposing to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Nathan Edgars II
SteveC-2 wrote: And I'll try to imagine your parents basement where you toil endlessly on such counts. Steve stevecoast.com If this is how the OSMF board conducts themselves, perhaps it's best to give them as little power as possible over the data and its license. -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 07:59, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Okay - you're saying that nearmap's concern is attribution? Surprisingly no, they don't require attribution, which is weird in and of itself, but do require any derived map data to be made available under a share alike license, so that they

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 09:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I don't recall seeing the nice folks from NearMap posting on this thread. I do recall an assertion from another poster that NearMap is firm on the map data being Share-Alike, as is will be under ODbL. But no quotations attributed

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:22 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 12:07, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: If this is how the OSMF board conducts themselves, perhaps it's best to give them as little power as possible over the data and its license. Just

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 12:35, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely stay-at-home sons (and daughters?), are less equal than others. Perhaps this should

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Ben Last
On 19 July 2010 10:18, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 09:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I don't recall seeing the nice folks from NearMap posting on this thread. I do recall an assertion from another poster that NearMap is firm on the map data

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussionmore inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread John F. Eldredge
This is a common insult, used to imply that the person in question is too inept to make it on their own. I am not certain where the basement portion of the stereotype comes from, unless it is to imply the person can't even get along their parents. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re:

Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-18 Thread Kirill Bestoujev
His own or old ones? 2010/7/19 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com: There are two new changesets today on the northern coast of Russia. Looks like he deleted 7 ways. On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Anthony onehalf3...@gmail.com wrote: Aleksandr Dezhin wrote: As I know Anthony

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Thread Michael Barabanov
Would specifying that the new license must be not just open/free but specifically an SA-like license in contributor agreement solve this particular issue? ODBL looks like SA in spirit. Further changing of licenses could be a separate discussion, when/if there's a new need. Michael. On Sun, Jul

Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-18 Thread Toby Murray
New ones by this user. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Juergenian/edits On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Kirill Bestoujev bestou...@gmail.com wrote: His own or old ones? 2010/7/19 Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com: There are two new changesets today on the northern coast of Russia. Looks

[Talk-it] impostazioni wmsplugin funzionanti

2010-07-18 Thread Francesco de Virgilio
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:41:15AM +0200, Federico Cozzi wrote: Ti meriti un monumento! Non esageriamo, al massimo una birra :) Per il tuo caso (mapping party da più PC con stesso IP) ti suggerisco di investigare uno dei vari software di cache WMS a cui far puntare tutti i client dei

Re: [Talk-it] R: [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread G Zamboni
Il 18/07/2010 7.27, Filippo Dal Bosco - ha scritto: Il giorno Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:16:23 + G Zambonigd.zamb...@tiscali.it ha scritto: Se non sbaglio quando scrivi qualcosa sulla barra degli indirizzi non e' Google che ti risponde ma il server DNS. Sara' il server DNS del tuo provider ad

Re: [Talk-it] R: [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread Stefano Salvador
il DNS fa tuttaltre cose: gli mandi il  nome di un  server/sito e se corrisponde esattamente ad un IP ti spedisce l' IP. Hai ragione, se il nome inserito è corretto www.x.yyy, ma quando scrivi solo cosa succede? se immetti un indirizzo sbagliato possono succedere 2 cose: - il DNS

Re: [Talk-it] R: [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread Filippo Dal Bosco -
Il giorno Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:33:34 +0200 G Zamboni gd.zamb...@tiscali.it ha scritto: Hai ragione, se il nome inserito è corretto www.x.yyy, ma quando scrivi solo cosa succede? io uso come DNS quello di google che ha IP 8.8.8.8. per le tue ipotesi basta provare e scrivere in

Re: [Talk-it] [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread Fabri
il DNS fa tuttaltre cose: gli mandi il nome di un server/sito e se corrisponde esattamente ad un IP ti spedisce l' IP. Hai ragione, se il nome inserito è corretto www.x.yyy, ma quando scrivi solo cosa succede? se immetti un indirizzo sbagliato possono succedere 2 cose: - il DNS

Re: [Talk-it] [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread Filippo Dal Bosco -
Il giorno Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:10:43 +0200 Fabri erfab...@gmail.com ha scritto: Dunque, prima cercando osm mi reindirizzava al primo risultato di google (www.openstreetmap.org) e adesso è stato declassato/boicottato dal motore di ricerca? google è un sito commerciale che vende pubblicità.

Re: [Talk-it] [OT] osm

2010-07-18 Thread Filippo Dal Bosco -
Il giorno Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:47:49 +0200 Stefano Cavallari stef...@cavallari.cjb.net ha scritto: On Sunday 18 July 2010 12:24:05 Filippo Dal Bosco - wrote: Puoi chiedere ( pagando) che dato una certo tipo di ricerca il tuo sito venga messo in testa al esito della ricerca. Nello

[Talk-at] OSM-Stammtisch Innsbruck am Do, 22. Juli

2010-07-18 Thread Boris Cornet
Hallo! Etwas kurzfristig diese Ankündigung, aber trotzdem erst recht: Am Donnerstag findet wieder der Innsbrucker Stammtisch statt. Weil der LUGT Stammtisch ausfällt, dieses Mal in privatem Rahmen bei Philipp Spitzlinger, Eckenried 6 in Innsbruck-Mühlau.

Re: [Talk-at] OSM-Stammtisch Innsbruck am Do, 22. Juli

2010-07-18 Thread Stefan Hirschmann
Boris Cornet wrote: Hallo! Etwas kurzfristig diese Ankündigung, aber trotzdem erst recht: Am Donnerstag findet wieder der Innsbrucker Stammtisch statt. Weil der LUGT Stammtisch ausfällt, dieses Mal in privatem Rahmen bei Philipp Spitzlinger, Eckenried 6 in Innsbruck-Mühlau. 6 Minuten nach

[OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread TimSC
Hi all, It seems to me mapping contributors can primarily influence in outcome of the relicensing in two ways: their choice relicensing their own contributions in the project and their involvement after the switch. I was considering how those two factors can be used to encourage others to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 23:00, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: an amicable arrangement. I am not suggesting backmail! After all, the whole point of PD is that people can do what they want with the data. I fail to see how you can force people to dual license as PD, since you even acknowledge

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 02:00:30PM +0100, TimSC wrote: For the conditions for relicensing our individual contribution's, I propose the following. Each data object (either a node, way or relation) have one or more authors. For each data object, we will agree to relicense our data as ODbL, if

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Tim, TimSC wrote: Firstly, the pro-PD people could propose a strings attached deal to OSMF as a condition for relicensing their data. After relicensing, the pro-PD people have their leverage watered down by the contributor terms. Speaking as a pro-PD person, I think I am happy enough with

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:41, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am happy that OSMF have added the PD option to the relicensing question, and I will try to convince as many mappers as possible to tick it. It makes no difference for the legal side of implementing ODbL but I hope that the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: people deriving from say Yahoo, is that information allowed to become PD? Yes. Contrary to popular belief, Yahoo has never struck any special agreement with OSM. They have evaluated their own terms of service and concluded that tracing off their imagery is generally

[OSM-talk-nl] Mapping party Utrecht

2010-07-18 Thread Frank Steggink
Hoi, Zoals iedereen ongetwijfeld weet, is Utrecht een stad met een lange geschiedenis. Het biedt voor elk wat wils, van toerist tot shopper tot concertganger. Om dit beter inzichtelijk te maken, wil ik graag wat doen aan het lage aantal points of interest (POIs). Dit is ook een uitstekende

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

2010-07-18 Thread Peter Ross
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: That said, having had a look at the new coverage in the Hunter Valley, there is a huge amount of detail you can get from Nearmap that would be

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike license, while the ODBL may be compatible, the new Contributor Terms (CTs) aren't so on top of all the cc-by data going bye bye, all the

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap.

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:10, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Markus
Where do we vote against the ODBL? Im sure not going to start again. Markus. -Original Message- From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of John Smith Sent: Sunday, 18 July 2010 9:06 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re:

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:19, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 12:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike

[talk-au] Lake Illawarra

2010-07-18 Thread Ken Bosward
I'm wondering how to fix up Lake Illawarra? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.5213lon=150.8437zoom=13 This does not render as blue water in the OSM Australia maps when viewed in MapSource or my Garmin GPS. I suspect this is because the inlet is not closed off; also the northern side of

Re: [talk-au] Lake Illawarra

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 23:29, Ken Bosward kbosw...@bosward.net wrote: I'm wondering how to fix up Lake Illawarra? Does it need to be fixed, or does pre-processing software need to be fixed? Should it be the case that the coastline tag should only be on the actual coast (and should also be used to

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