[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

2008-08-04 Thread Joseph Gentle
You can see my beautiful city. http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8ll=-33.911633,151.24054spn=0.03298,0.065918z=15layer=ccbll=-33.9172,151.226114panoid=SF1CU5fcTX8XqlKyXRxwogcbp=1,123.60785767574839,,0,6.094238783200709 Good for filling in all the missing street names. -J

Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

2008-08-12 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Rory McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Gentle wrote: You can see my beautiful city. http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8ll=-33.911633,151.24054spn=0.03298,0.065918z=15layer=ccbll=-33.9172,151.226114panoid=SF1CU5fcTX8XqlKyXRxwogcbp=1,123.60785767574839

[OSM-talk] Tiles for mobile devices

2008-09-25 Thread Joseph Gentle
Hi! I want to make a set of tiles for mobile devices. Its easier for a mobile device if you use 64x64 pixel tiles rather than 256x256. To do this, I need to edit generate_tiles.py. The file is pretty poorly documented. Does anyone have any tips on where to start? Do I need to change the

Re: [OSM-talk] License missing on many web pages

2008-09-30 Thread Joseph Gentle
None of them (not even the OSM webpage!) attribute the OSM contributors properly. The CC-By-SA license requires all contributors are listed. Yes; all ~60 000 of us. We imply that some legal conditions on map use should be enforced while others should not. Our wiki's legal faq does a bad job of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-15 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thinking as well, just needs careful consideration of viral effects, i.e. if you want to be totally safe then you can only ever collect data before it is assimilated into the OSM pool, and after that it is completely

[OSM-talk] Databases?

2008-10-15 Thread Joseph Gentle
Hi! I've been taking a look at the software stack and (especially with the intermediate XML formats) I can't help but feel that we could represent the map data in a much more efficient format - eg a quadtree. With the right data structures, it should be possible to render maps on client side in

Re: [OSM-talk] Databases?

2008-10-15 Thread Joseph Gentle
(Now with added reply-all) On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Andy Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Better' is dependent on what you're trying to achieve, but there are certainly many 'different' representations in use in different projects. I want to represent the data such that a user can pan

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-21 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this PD thing actually OSM though, or something outside of/parallel to OSM? I don't quite understand at the moment how to whole thing is intended to work to be honest. We're still talking about it; hence the request for a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bvh wrote: Note that there is no pd-violations.org /me blinks in astonishment /me decides there really is nothing more he can bring to this party Gustav was right. Let's talk OSM. cheers Richard But but...

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bvh wrote: My ideal license would force them to divulge their private GIS data on signal strength Oh right. I just want to make a map. :D -J cheers Richard ___

[OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
Whats important to you? Please answer this ~20 second poll: http://sineltor.selfip.org/osm.php Thanks! Joseph ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-02 Thread Joseph Gentle
license)) c) This requires more than 20 seconds thought, please let me review the history of BSD vs. GPL and consult some IP lawyers On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:17, Joseph Gentle wrote: Whats important to you? Please answer this ~20 second poll: http://sineltor.selfip.org/osm.php Thanks! Joseph

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:39 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, this is not the place for that argument. That argument's place is the legal-talk mailing list. Which makes me wonder why you posted the poll here then? It was your idea - as you said, only asking the legal-talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Minimum or maximum clothing demanded

2008-11-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
I like the idea. The english term for clothing requirements is a Dress Code. I'm not sure how this can best fit in - dress_code_min=formal, dress_code_max=naked ? -J On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, please have a look and discuss my proposal about clothing that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A really quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Lunes, 3 de Noviembre de 2008, Gustav Foseid escribió: I am really worried, when I see the chairman of the OSM Foundation making these kind of oversimplified statements regardig a complex issue like the OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
2008/11/3 Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could we stop making PD-vs-SA flamewars that will lead nowhere, please? Thanks, I'm sorry for reigniting the flamewar. My intention was merely to get some data. However, I'd rather have some argument here than Steve's inflammatory remarks

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-10 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:41 PM, John07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Richards schrieb: Anyone who has played with an iPhone will have seen the Google maps application, which provides much of the functionality of the Javascript web app, while giving quite a good tactile feel It also

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-10 Thread Joseph Gentle
http://code.google.com/p/route-me/ ... Though the focus is on the map view, not on making it a fully fledged application for the store. -J On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Joe Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who has played with an iPhone will have seen the Google maps application,

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-10 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:19 AM, John McKerrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Nov 2008, at 14:14, Rory McCann wrote: On 10/11/08 12:40, Joseph Gentle wrote: http://code.google.com/p/route-me/ ... Though the focus is on the map view, not on making it a fully fledged application

Re: [OSM-talk] Openstreetmap iPhone app

2008-11-11 Thread Joseph Gentle
You can suppress that, but the performance is pretty crappy. -J On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Joe Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get python installed if your iphone is jailbroken via the Cydia installer (apt-get Debian style but for the iPhone). I think you're imagining a

[OSM-legal-talk] Another use case for the license

2008-12-09 Thread Joseph Gentle
Hi guys. I don't know if its too late for this but: If Microsoft / Mapquest / Google / whoever ever decide to join the community, would our new open data license let them use any of our data? What / how much would we require them to share back? -J

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Public Domain versus CC Attribution Share Alike License

2008-09-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:29 AM, spaetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:51:36AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: What can't you do with OSM data under the Creative Commons license that you couldn't do with data in the Public Domain? To me it seems like the only two (2)

[OSM-legal-talk] Licensing: What happens next

2008-09-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
We have all argued incessantly about licensing issues. That does not help the OSM project. What will probably happen - The OSM foundation will email our 50 000 contributors saying: Hi everybody. Thanks for your contributions. We want to relicense your data to this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSMHQ (Open Street Map High Quality): Viable Alternative For The National Map Corps

2008-09-03 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:25 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: All that being said, there are many people in OSM who would actually prefer a non-viral license (including me). Hope is more or less lost to get the whole of OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSMHQ (Open Street Map High Quality): Viable Alternative For The National Map Corps

2008-09-04 Thread Joseph Gentle
I agree. Said sister project would have to ask Yahoo! for permission as well. However, if they give access to OSM they should give access to a PD version of OSM. Yahoo can do a lot more with the data a PD-OSM project generates. -J On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Kari Pihkala [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSMHQ (Open Street Map High Quality): Viable Alternative For The National Map Corps

2008-09-04 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Even if a sister project would set up the same toolchain, the same editors, databases etc. on a PD license, the sister project would miss the Yahoo satellite images. What kind of agreement has been made with

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Public Domain versus CC Attribution Share Alike License

2008-09-04 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: I think it may underestimate the potential for corporate abuse. There are a lot of people out there willing to leech of a community like OSM without making any positive contributions.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License License License

2008-10-12 Thread Joseph Gentle
The license is changing frustration is waning we can all see what the new license will be Some terms need explaining On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: Subject: License License License Can we hear that as a limerick? ;-) Bye

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-15 Thread Joseph Gentle
I was looking at the OSGeo data committee wondering where their data was as they seem to have the same goals as us. I don't think picking the right PD license will be a particularly large hurdle. It is certainly less complicated than selecting a share-alike license :) The wikipedia pd license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Gentle
Sorry, I've been busy writing up research proposals and whatnot. I'm starting a phd next year (woohoo!). I don't like the standard creative commons PD license. Their CC-zero license is ok, but not finished. Here's the wikipedia license from earlier in the thread: I, the copyright holder of this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I take back what I previously said to 80n about all PD advocates being on the same page ;-) We're very close, and we don't have to agree. Data published with free non-viral licenses can coexist peacefully. We're really

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-21 Thread Joseph Gentle
We won't have all the data under one license though. Never will if we're incorporating TIGER data and data from other governments. I don't think its that big a deal - we could just say if you edit a node, your edits are also under the same PD license as the node is currently under or something.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-21 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Simon Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:19:50PM +0100, Brian Quinion wrote: Personally I'd be very happy to see the discussion of PD continue on the talk list but a mailing list seems a very minor resource compared to the time and effort

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-21 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Ian Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't we just be happen to produce maps and data people will want to use? Ian. We already produce maps and data people want to use. I also want the maps and data to be under a license which lets them be used. (More.)

[OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-21 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM, 80n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like so view OSM as a cool DIY project, not a political trick we're pulling. The problem with PD is that it permits companies to take OSM data, add their own data and benefit from result without giving anything back. Joseph's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-22 Thread Joseph Gentle
I'm happy with that. Thankyou :) -J On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Kari Pihkala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I counted the votes for PD license so far. Sorry, if I have missed anyone!! Jordan S Hatcher: PDDL Joseph Gentle: Wikipedia PD / PDDL Nic Roets: Wikipedia PD Sebastian Spaeth

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-25 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Philipp Klaus Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me the main problem with copyleft licenses is that there are so many incompatible ones of them. Here's the compatibility chart amongst creative-commons licenses:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

2008-10-25 Thread Joseph Gentle
and the PD people will be happy dreaming about spaceships and their idea of freedom. On 25 Oct 2008, at 19:20, Joseph Gentle wrote: Steve: I'm confused. Please reconcile these two statements: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys OSM isn't going PD... can't you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain

2008-10-25 Thread Joseph Gentle
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, lots of sensible and interesting discussion Frederik I agree with all of this. I don't want to confuse the issues; but I do want more data about the opinions of average mappers than an argument on the internet can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A really quick poll

2008-11-08 Thread Joseph Gentle
Thanks for your feedback. -J On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Joseph Gentle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please fill out this poll: http://sineltor.selfip.org/osm.php Thanks! Joseph ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http