[OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ivo De Broeck
Ik probeer stadsbus nr 8 in een relatie te gieten. Met backward en forward geeft de relatiechecker allemaal kleine stukjes. Is het mogelijk om bepaalde vakken zowel forward als backward te noemen en toch de relatie consistent te houden? Ik heb nu 1 richting volledig (forward) gemaakt voor het

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ivo De Broeck
OK, can we put this in the conventions wiki pages? Proposal: Use two different relations, one for the forward direction, one for the backward direction. Example : relation xx busnumber zzz Brussels - Antwerp relation yy busnumber zzz Antwerp - Brussels Op 10 augustus 2010 10:22 schreef

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Maarten Deen
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:41:38 +0200, Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+...@gmail.com wrote: Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 10:22, Tim Francois a écrit : +1. Yup, this is what is currently happening in most of the UK - a separate relation for the 'up' and 'down' bus routes, so that forwards/backwards (which is

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Maarten Deen
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:56:28 +0200, Ivo De Broeck ivo.debro...@gmail.com wrote: What i propose is keeping the existing relation for the normal direction. There is no normal direction with buses. Example stadsbus nr 8 go from Bertem - Leuven - Bierbeek (check the relation with the relation

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ivo De Broeck
2010/8/10 Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:56:28 +0200, Ivo De Broeck ivo.debro...@gmail.com wrote: What i propose is keeping the existing relation for the normal direction. There is no normal direction with buses. Yes the normal name for the route is 8 Bertem- Leuven

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Laenen
Maarten Deen wrote: Een oplossing zou natuurlijk kunnen bestaan uit het maken van 2 relaties : relatie x 8 Bertem - Bierbeek relatie y 8 Bierbeek - Bertem Dat is wat op veel plaatsen toch al gedaan wordt. En dan geen forward of backward er in. Ik zou zeggen: de eerste node/way in de

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 12:41, Ben Laenen a écrit : Yes, please put the bus stop nodes next to the way, not on the way. OK, that seems more logical anyway. btw, the page talks about an *extra* node on the way, used together with the bus stop node next to the way. Is it useful? If I split the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ivo De Broeck
2010/8/10 Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+...@gmail.comr.h.michel%2b...@gmail.com Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 10:22, Tim Francois a écrit : +1. Yup, this is what is currently happening in most of the UK - a separate relation for the 'up' and 'down' bus routes, so that forwards/backwards (which is

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ivo De Broeck
2010/8/10 Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+...@gmail.comr.h.michel%2b...@gmail.com Le mardi 10 août 2010 à 10:22, Tim Francois a écrit : +1. Yup, this is what is currently happening in most of the UK - a separate relation for the 'up' and 'down' bus routes, so that forwards/backwards (which is

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Laenen
Ivo De Broeck wrote: see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Conventions/Bus_and_ tram_lines#Tagging(to discuss) Watch out when editing the wiki: you've replaced the paragraph about tagging belbussen. Furthermore, when starting a discussion on the wiki, this should go on

Re: [OSM-talk-be] busroutes

2010-08-10 Thread Ben Laenen
Maarten Deen wrote: Have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/VRS , for a lot of relations, there are two routes. Often also tagged with a from and to in the relation, although I don't know if that really helps in a program. a lot of relations: I count 12 on that page with two

Re: [OSM-talk] Marine taggine/OpenSeamap

2010-08-10 Thread Malcolm Herring
Bernhard R. Fischer wrote: Don't you think that we shouldn't put the lighthouse also on that page? Everything is there: light vessel, float, major, minor lights. I think we could put the lighthouse also there. You are right. I have now done it.

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
Ok, the chilean and the brazilian imports differ in the base license, giving the brazilian imports a head start ahead of chilean in the race for the new license. AFAICT all the brazilian imports are PD, and conditions have been very simple, as giving a way of pointing to sorce data (i.e. source=

Re: [OSM-talk] Marine taggine/OpenSeamap

2010-08-10 Thread Aun Johnsen
I see I got a snowball running here, great guys. Continue on that. I can help out with some language makeup and corrections on the English language pages (Nautical Professional) but have little time to offer at the moment. I will also look into translating the important bits of it into Portuguese

[OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread 80n
Does anyone have a spare / unused OSM account that was created before the new Contributor Terms were introduced? I'm planning an import of some micro-mapping that's been done for my local area. The import guidelines[1] recommend that I create a new account for this to keep it separate from my

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread David Ellams
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:06:00 +0100, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Why don't you try this. Import some Ordnance Survey Street View data into OSM, then render it as a Produced Work with the ODbL required attribution: Contains information from OpenStreetMap, which is made available here

[OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread ozgur akyar
Hey friends, I have just started learning about OSM then had an idea to improve OSM in Turkey. As you might now, OSM is not good enough improved. Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM. Now a days,

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: What about a tracing of a photograph of a flower? [...] What about a tracing of a photograph of a lake, as viewed from an aircraft? Bauman v Fussell may be relevant here. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
80n, 80n wrote: For obvious reasons I'm not going to use an account that forces me to commit to the new contributor terms. So now I'm looking for anyone who might have an old OSM account (created before May 12th 2010) that they are not using and would be happy to give away to me. Maybe

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Why don't you try this. Import some Ordnance Survey Street View data into OSM, then render it as a Produced Work with the ODbL required attribution I've written fairly extensively on this in talk-gb, but to reiterate a posting from May: To comply with ODbL for data obtained

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: Maybe instead of playing these kinds of games you could just help those people who want to set up a fork, and then import to that fork. Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license, only causes more work and

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:16:14AM +0200, ozgur akyar wrote: Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM. As far I know there is not an open source fleet tracking software right now. I imagine a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Ciprian Talaba
Hi, On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Niccolo Rigacci o...@rigacci.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:16:14AM +0200, ozgur akyar wrote: Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM. As far I

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM. I've had same idea and done some trials. I have a blackbox in my car for a year or so, and it stores GPS traces to a tracking system over GPRS. These look

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: This is quite a good place to start: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright_protection_of_databases It's good to see licence sceptics starting to look at the case law too. There are of course a million things you could say about rights pertaining to factual compilations in the US.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
2010/8/10 Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com: Now, I had an idea which is making a vehicle tracking system and encouraging companies to use it and through this adding tracks in to OSM. I've had same idea and done some trials. I have a blackbox in my car for a year or so, and it stores GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Niccolo Rigacci
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:23:16PM +0300, Ciprian Talaba wrote: You mean like OpenGTS: http://opengts.sourceforge.net/ ? :) It seems that the web interface improved greatly since the last time I checkd that project! Neverthless, if I'm right, the project started around the low-level

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 18:14, David Ellams osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: I'm not the first to say this, but is the problem not (whichever BY-SA licence we use) that we are suggesting to people that attributing the project is enough (rather than, say, giving the most major contributors to the

[OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Richard gave me an idea for mixing the stew. Let's say that a user who stays with CC-BY-SA has drawn crossing streets and buildings around the corner. Then another user who is willing to go with ODbL locates some POIs by looking at the ready OSM map. Sooner or later the streets and buildings will

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 18:36, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Maybe instead of playing these kinds of games you could just help those people who want to set up a fork, and then import to that fork. Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license,

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 20:28, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: How strict are we going to be with these cases? If we are going to be strict, how can we sort them out? I think this is why some people are advocating that ODBL be a fork and start with 'clean' data, it's going to be

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: Richard gave me an idea for mixing the stew. Let's say that a user who stays with CC-BY-SA has drawn crossing streets and buildings around the corner. Then another user who is willing to go with ODbL locates

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:41 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 August 2010 20:28, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: How strict are we going to be with these cases? If we are going to be strict, how can we sort them out? I think this is why some people are

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 20:52, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The only people who are advocating clean data (ie no data at all) It's slightly annoying to be told time after time after time to only use clean data for OSM, but now that some people want a change it's ok to have slightly less

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
2010/8/10 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I'm not being petty in the least, I want a compromise, but others have outright refused to even consider any kind of a compromise that will save years of work without resorting to shady legal tactics. Hey, now that's not fair. The reason I suggested to LWG that they drop

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 21:17, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: The reason I suggested to LWG that they drop the relicensing option from the Contributor Terms, and limit future options to CC-BY-SA or ODbL[1], was precisely that: a spirit of compromise. And I liked that proposal, I even

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Ed Avis
Now that we have identifiable changesets, the advice to create a separate user account is no longer as essential as it once was. I would suggest using your existing user account and doing the upload as one or more clearly marked changesets. -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license, only causes more work and more problems. That is true. But then for those who would prefer to continue with CC-BY-SA, the pushing of the new contributor terms

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Any license that tries to use this patchy copyright protection of data is bound to be unfair at the very least, and more likely a pain the behind of anybody who wants to use it. The legality of OSM use cases would depend on whether you execute a

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote: Map is a hand-written 2D picture of the world. It is definitely more a kind of art than a digital photo in flickr, there is more subjectivity and intelligence etc needed to make it. How can photos be copyrighted?

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM vehicle tracking in Turkey.

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
You mean like OpenGTS: http://opengts.sourceforge.net/ ? :) It seems that the web interface improved greatly since the last time I checkd that project! Neverthless, if I'm right, the project started around the low-level software, concerning vehicle data acquisition, not around the web

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
2010/8/10 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Any license that tries to use this patchy copyright protection of data is bound to be unfair at the very least, and more likely a pain the behind of anybody who wants to use it. The legality of OSM use cases would

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote: Map is a hand-written 2D picture of the world. It is definitely more a kind of art than a digital photo in flickr, there is more subjectivity and

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Jaak Laineste jaak.laineste at gmail.com writes: I don't really see how someone can even have the idea (or argument) that map is just a database of facts. I'd suggest a simple technical test for is X an art or fact. 1. ask two persons to create the X. 2. store it to a digital file, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 22:09, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like this approach too: each country should be able to decide license terms. Communities are different, population/contributor densities are very different, laws are different. Would it be really practical, and how it

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/10 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Any license that tries to use this patchy copyright protection of data is bound to be unfair at the very least, and more likely a pain

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. I'm not suggesting, I'm reporting. You might like things to be easy but that isn't the way the law works... or we wouldn't have been having this discussion for the

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net writes: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. I'm not suggesting, I'm reporting. You might like things to be easy but that isn't the way the law works...

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread David Ellams
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:20 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I've only seen it suggested in the past about how crediting every single contributor would be pages long, your suggestion is a good idea, however I'm left wondering if this would make things open to abuse, how many

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 22:52, David Ellams osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: I can't take credit for the suggestion, as I think this was Richard F's idea (I knew I'd seen it somewhere: is this fair attribution? grin). Maybe, for an online map (such as osm.org), a more prominent link to OSM's

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, David Ellams wrote: I can't take credit for the suggestion, as I think this was Richard F's idea (I knew I'd seen it somewhere: is this fair attribution? grin). Maybe, for an online map (such as osm.org), a more prominent link to OSM's contributors page would be sufficient

[OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Collinson
What ifs, what ifs. The key is clearly to reduce these. So, in summary, we'll proceed with a voluntary program of sign-up for the new OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms [1]. Those that simply want to get on and accept that we won't doing anything daft can sign up.Those that are worried about

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: No idea about printed maps, but several sites recently only linked to an attribute page on their site, rather than displaying it on top of the map, so maybe having a small lookup table of major contributors that can be linked to would be suitable? We do. :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Anthony wrote: What about a tracing of a photograph of a flower? [...] What about a tracing of a photograph of a lake, as viewed from an aircraft? Bauman v Fussell may be relevant here. Not particularly. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Körner
Am 10.08.2010 13:38, schrieb Ed Avis: Frederik Rammfrederikat remote.org writes: Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license, only causes more work and more problems. That is true. But then for those who would prefer to continue with CC-BY-SA,

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done by a human being and that is not art by this definition? Humans create many non-art things. For example databases it human-created

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: [...] CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. That's certainly trivially incorrect. The database that holds Wikipedia is a database, for instance. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:04, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike license written especially for databases. I support BY-SA (and probably ODBL) but I

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Peter K?rner wrote: Didn't you read? There is no way in continuing with CC-BY-SA as CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. It is just not possible, damn! Anyone tested this is any court? Which CC-BY-SA project was 'killed' because of this? Let the guys from the LWG do

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:05, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: This also gives the advice, consistent with our current licence and with ODbL, that where data from a national mapping agency or other major source has been included in OpenStreetMap, it may be reasonable to credit them by

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:32, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Why is this again a statement of making OSM more restrictive, while the hole transition was invented to be less restrictive on the OSM data ;) Paradox? The transition is from more free for contributors to less free for

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On 8/10/10, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: [...] CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. That's certainly trivially incorrect. The database that holds Wikipedia is a database, for instance. And it's not under

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 August 2010 23:04, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike license

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Jaak Laineste
The question I'm asking (which you chopped out of the quote) is whether or not the tracing is copyrightable. Automatic tracing is not copyrightable by the tracer, according to the test. What was copyrightable is the aerial image, and automatic tracing is just a way of making a specific copy of

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:13:02PM +0200, Peter Körner wrote: Am 10.08.2010 13:38, schrieb Ed Avis: Frederik Rammfrederikat remote.org writes: Because for us, your plannet import along with your steadfast refusal of the new license, only causes more work and more problems. That is true.

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote: I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. Can you give an example of a thing that is done by a human being and that is not art by this definition?

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:44, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: In case i dont care and like PD more than CC-BY-SA or even worse the ODbl i would be more than happy to continue with CC-BY-SA and accept it to fail in court, basically putting the OSM Data into PD ... I never really got that, pro-PD

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 August 2010 23:44, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: In case i dont care and like PD more than CC-BY-SA or even worse the ODbl i would be more than happy to continue with CC-BY-SA and accept it to fail in court,

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 10 August 2010 14:49, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 August 2010 23:44, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: In case i dont care and like PD more than CC-BY-SA or even worse the ODbl i would be more than happy to continue with CC-BY-SA and accept it to fail in court,

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:49:18PM +1000, John Smith wrote: On 10 August 2010 23:44, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: In case i dont care and like PD more than CC-BY-SA or even worse the ODbl i would be more than happy to continue with CC-BY-SA and accept it to fail in court, basically

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:54, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: ... and aren't immoral arseholes who like to trample over other's intent and damn well know the project is highly unlikely to ever end up PD so would rather be on a level playing field by having a license that works for

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I never really got that, pro-PD people are pro-ODBL because copyright may not be enough to cover the database... Not sure what that means. I'd prefer OSM to stay CC-BY-SA. Barring that, I'd prefer CC0 (or PDDL, or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 23:51, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Thanks for the support on the ODbL but as Dave says, no, the acceptance is for the Contributor Terms. As I've said before, I can't legally agree to the CTs due to clause 1 at the very least, I don't have the right to relicense all

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/10/10, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: [...] CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. That's certainly trivially incorrect. The

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/8/10 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Elena of Valhalla elena.valha...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/10/10, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: [...] CC-BY-SA can't be used for databases. That's

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Anthony schrieb: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Matt Amoszerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Anthonyo...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Matt Amoszerebub...@gmail.com wrote: the ODbL is the only example i know of. That's certainly a reason to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 August 2010 01:55, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: It would probably be pretty embarrassing for anybody who made that sort of error in judgment or declaration of ignorance, so they might be a little prickly about the subject or try to make it seem like someone else's fault rather

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Quinion
Given that you can't (legitimately) sign up to the CT if you have used data which you are not the copyright owner how will we deal with the situation where someone who HAS imported external data signs up to the Contributor Terms? In some ways it is their own problem, they have warranted that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 August 2010 02:13, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: There also needs to be a process for people who have signed the contributor terms in error to un-sign or some way for them to be assisted in removing their 'tainted' data so they are no longer in breach. This

[OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread SteveC
OSM is mostly a consensus-based community, or a do-ocracy. It was never a benevolent dictatorship, and I have given up (as far as I know, anyway) all power I have in OSM. I used to write the code, own the domain names, run the mailing list(s), run the servers, evangelize, talk to the press and

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread steve brown
On 10 August 2010 17:19, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: OSM is mostly a consensus-based community, or a do-ocracy. It was never a benevolent dictatorship, and I have given up (as far as I know, anyway) all power I have in OSM. I used to write the code, own the domain names, run the

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:36 PM, steve brown st...@evolvedlight.co.uk wrote: [ ... ] I fully support what you have said. From the ubuntu community, their code of conduct works well http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct as it provides guidelines that can be adhered to, or conversely used to

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I suggested a Code of Conduct, and have been working with OSM US for us to adopt one. We've written a draft and were waiting for the annual meeting and the next board to take it up I'd like to see the OSMF adopt something similar. A moderation policy without a code of conduct is too potentially

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: As Matt noted, there's a growing legal opinion that our current data is in fact in the PD, as the CC-BY-SA can't be legally applied to it. Is that the state you want to have in the future? Better than it being under ODbL.

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread steve brown
Hey So while I am by no means! an expert in the workings of the ubuntu community, I can summarise as follows from http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/governance: The Community Council is responsible for the creation of sub-groups and teams (such as the local chapters and development

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El día Tuesday 10 August 2010 18:19:30, SteveC dijo: So we are at a point now in OSM, I believe, where a few poisonous people are wrecking the time, focus and goodwill of the majority of contributors, I, for one, agree. These flame wars only waste our time. Our as in all of us. It leads

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Collinson
At 05:16 PM 10/08/2010, Brian Quinion wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike license written especially for

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Nathan Edgars II
SteveC-2 wrote: One quote from the talk in particular comes to mind: it's a technique that poisonous people can use to derail a consensus-based community from actually achieving consensus. You have this noisy minority make a lot of noise and people look and say 'oh wow there is no

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi all, I know this first hand. Many (if not most or all) of the key people in OSM are feeling drained, distracted and upset. Some are talking of hiatus or resign. These are the key people who write code, build things, maintain things and run our working groups. I'm not sure if I (still)

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Dave F.
On 10/08/2010 17:59, Nathan Edgars II wrote: Personally I think this idea of labeling people as poisonous is itself poisonous, and anyone who agrees with it is at least slightly poisonous. I agree. Personally I think Steve C is one of the rudest, most vitriolic voices on the forums. Most of

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi, While others are afraid to contribute to the discussion because of the heat. I think the Australians have a good point about the contributor terms and loss of data, but I'm not going to get involved and risk being labeled a poisonous person for agreeing with them. There is a big

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: SteveC-2 wrote: One quote from the talk in particular comes to mind: it's a technique that poisonous people can use to derail a consensus-based community from actually achieving consensus. You have this noisy minority

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:19 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: What are your ideas? How should we block people? For how long? What process should it be? What are the best practices from other projects you're involved in? I think this is a great topic, and its nice to see it properly

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 August 2010 03:26, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de wrote: There is a big difference between pointing out the current form of the contributor terms means that we will loose 80% of the data in Australia. Do you really want to proceed? and jumping into every thread and spreading FUD that

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: Personally I think [name redacted] is one of the rudest, most vitriolic voices on the forums. Most of his posts are based on the idea of I don't like you because you don't agree with me. This thread being a prime example.

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Patrick Kilian
Hi, There is a big difference between pointing out the current form of the contributor terms means that we will loose 80% of the data in Australia. Do you really want to proceed? and jumping into every thread and spreading FUD that has been dissected and disproved several times by different

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 August 2010 03:42, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de wrote: No matter if the claim is 10% or 100% it should be made and it should be heard. Without more details about contributor intent we are left to speculate... But there has been the claim CC-BY-SA works perfectly well. If it actually

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted - spare CC-BY-SA account

2010-08-10 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
Peteris, I agree with you. I do not see anything wrong with ODbL this far. But The third condition of the Contributor Terms is unacceptable to me. Mappers from Germany or Southern England are probably one next to the other at this point of OSMs history, so bulk imports sound like absolutely

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de wrote: Hi, There is a big difference between pointing out the current form of the contributor terms means that we will loose 80% of the data in Australia. Do you really want to proceed? and jumping into every thread and

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