[OSM-talk] First import working group meeting

2009-09-02 Thread SteveC
Hi The first import working group meeting will be held next week • Thursday September 10th • 6pm UK time, 10 AM Pacific Time Agenda • Participant introductions • Sort out the impo...@osmfoundation vs. impo...@openstreetmap.org lists, and their need •

Re: [OSM-talk] Brainstorming: Simple Revert-Tools - work for copywriters!

2009-09-03 Thread SteveC
On 3 Sep 2009, at 07:04, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Peter Miller wrote:  Ok, so I have just had an RSS alert that Liam123 is back editing again today after a delay of 3 weeks. Probably because kids are back at school now. Look at his first changeset ever - it's next to his school. Of

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement re new 'moderation' email list to develop effective responses to vandalism and mistakes

2009-09-28 Thread SteveC
On 28 Sep 2009, at 06:33, Peter Miller wrote: To avoid spam subscriber's the first posts will be moderated so don't expect them to appear immediately. Subsequent posts will not be moderated. How... recursive! :-) Yours c. Steve ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread SteveC
On 30 Sep 2009, at 08:15, Chris Hill wrote: Dave F. wrote: Dave Stubbs wrote: I wouldn't read too much into it, especially as they said, we’ve almost certainly got at least some of it wrong but hopefully we got part of it right and can correct the rest as we go Dave You see, this

Re: [OSM-talk] Flickr Now Supports OSM Tags

2009-09-30 Thread SteveC
On 30 Sep 2009, at 16:14, Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC writes: Yeah, OK Dave, we've got the message, you don't free-format tags. Unfortunately you're going to have to get used to it, because it is the basis of the OPENstreetmap and, in my opinion, one of the reasons it is as successful

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread SteveC
Dave - super awesome. As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting people import them one by one will be the best way to do it. Another random thought - should the addressing ways be one long way with

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread SteveC
On 13 Oct 2009, at 09:26, Simone Cortesi wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting people import them one by one

Re: [OSM-talk] TIGER Addressing Import

2009-10-13 Thread SteveC
On 13 Oct 2009, at 10:37, Hillsman, Edward wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 18:20, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Dave - super awesome. As I said on IRC the other week, but I'll repeat here for all - I think dumping the addressing for all 3,000 counties and then letting people import

[OSM-talk] Looking for more opengeodata bloggers

2009-10-14 Thread SteveC
Hi Love OpenStreetMap? Love blogging? If anyone is interested in making opengeodata.org even more awesome please drop me a line for a account to blog with. Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and talk-us-bayarea

2009-10-20 Thread SteveC
Neither list has any real traffic, and what they do tend to just be reposts of talk-us. Splitting the community at this stage is retarded, we should wait for talk-us to grow to a sizable level and then begin spinning off as required, like we did with the other lists. Yours c. Steve

[OSM-talk] traffic lights

2009-11-02 Thread SteveC
Is anyone interested in pushing through this set of ideas for modeling multiple traffic lights? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Set_of_Traffic_Signals The last discussion seems to be about a year ago. Yours c. Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-12 Thread SteveC
On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I'd seen a vague allusion to this but not actually heard the full response. Really interesting - Michael Jones of Google explaining why they don't use OSM data. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXDAFJTH6w#t=1m47s To summarise: the

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-12 Thread SteveC
On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Ian Dees wrote: Perhaps we could e-mail him directly? Or SteveC could fill us in... Just as a point of order, I only saw this thread today... sometimes I just kill everything in my OSM lists mailbox because I get far too much. Feel free to cc me on list posts

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
You're conflating two entirely different points and as far as I can see, trolling. On Nov 13, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Russ Nelson wrote: On 12/11/2009 21:31, SteveC wrote: That's half true. Nobody likes the uncertainty around CC, but really they want us to be PD because they don't want to give

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
Can I have SF county, CA please and Arapahoe County, CO...? Yours c. Steve On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Dave Hansen wrote: So, just like the original TIGER import, I'm now grossly stealing someone else's code:

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
Dave I've looked at the two you sent me and they're both basically fine but for two things. In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up the addressing on

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-13 Thread SteveC
On Nov 13, 2009, at 11:11 PM, SteveC wrote: Dave I've looked at the two you sent me and they're both basically fine but for two things. In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-14 Thread SteveC
On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:49 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Hi, 2009/11/14 SteveC st...@asklater.com: In Denver the houses are all set back a lot further, so some way to say 'on north-south roads, set back X feet' might help a lot. Or, in JOSM just search for all the ways that make up

Re: [OSM-talk] Karlruhe Scheme addressing ways from 2009 TIGER data

2009-11-15 Thread SteveC
On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: What really needs to be done for TIGER addresses import is match the streets from TIGER to those in OSM (which should be easy since they all still have the TIGER id's) and generate the address geometry based on these. Otherwise someone will

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Database Licence

2008-09-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Sep 2008, at 12:09, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Steve Chilton wrote: Webmapper blogged yesterday about the recent OpenStreetMap Users Day in Holland (http://www.webmapper.net/), where Henk (and others) presented/discussed the possible move to ODL licensing. Could someone summarise

Re: [OSM-talk] Open Database Licence

2008-09-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Sep 2008, at 17:36, spaetz wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:37:01PM +0100, SteveC wrote: Put in other words: The license debate looks pretty much stalled if you ask me. Absolutely not, I spent half a day working on it last week and it will get another half day this week. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Garmin USB on Windows

2008-09-29 Thread SteveC
Just run gpsbabel? No drivers required... On 29 Sep 2008, at 13:32, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Karl Newman wrote: If it's a 60Cx or 60CSx, then you can configure it to log tracks to the MicroSD card. Once that's set up, you can put the device into USB mass storage mode and it will show up as

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-02 Thread SteveC
On 1 Oct 2008, at 11:01, Ulf Mehlig wrote: Hello Frederik, thanks for your answer. The coordinate display at www.informationfreeway.org is what I was looking for. Wouldn't it be possible to integrate this function into the main OpenStreetMap site? I think this would definitely improve the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

2008-10-03 Thread SteveC
I think most of your questions have been answered by other people already. I could tell you about our plans for ice cream gloves but I think this does it better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc Best Steve On 3 Oct 2008, at 12:03, Adrian wrote: Hopefully someone here

Re: [OSM-talk] Zoom level 12 on Potlatch

2008-10-07 Thread SteveC
On 7 Oct 2008, at 09:18, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I'm thinking of disabling zoom level 12 in Potlatch, to reduce load on the server. It's probably too far zoomed out to be able to do any useful editing anyway. Low-res (Landsat) Yahoo kicks in at level 13 so you'd still be able to access

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-10 Thread SteveC
On 10 Oct 2008, at 07:06, Jonathan Bennett wrote: elvin ibbotson wrote: Steve, It looks like fakeSteveC or someone is pretending to be you and posting elitist, patronising, condescending rubbish in an apparent attempt to I'll take elitism over populism or relativism. See:

Re: [OSM-talk] map display www.openstreetmap.org

2008-10-11 Thread SteveC
On 10 Oct 2008, at 23:37, Matthias Julius wrote: SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm all for lat/lng to be a user-enabled display option, but it's delusional to think that most people on the planet care and I personally want most people on the planet using our maps. And I don't think

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

2008-10-21 Thread SteveC
Guys OSM isn't going PD... can't you go start ReallyFreeAndOpenStreetMap.org or something? Best Steve On 21 Oct 2008, at 07:33, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: Does anyone have the e-mail address for Tom Hughes so I could request the creation of a public domain mailing list for OSM? Is there a

[OSM-talk] Introducing CloudMade mapping ambassadors

2008-10-22 Thread SteveC
Hi CloudMade feels that helping the US community grow would be a good thing and to that end we've been hiring, for want of a better term, mapping ambassadors. These full-time employees will be doing things like running mapping parties, speaking at events, doing webinars and anything else

[OSM-talk] IEEE paper on OSM

2008-10-22 Thread SteveC
I didn't see anyone post this so http://povesham.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/openstreetmap-user-generated-street-maps-ieee-pervasive-computing-paper/ with the usual choice quotes :-O Best Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License update

2008-10-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Oct 2008, at 07:17, 80n wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Jochen Topf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:24:37PM -0700, SteveC wrote: I've received back general comments from Wilson Sonsini (http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Index.aspx ) on the latest draft

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Tiger 2007 Data

2008-10-24 Thread SteveC
Dave the positional accuracy of the 'new' TIGER stuff I hear is substantially better across the board. Some suggestions: Build a list of counties which have not had substantial edits to see if they can be dropped for the new stuff? Import all the TIGER 2007 addressing stuff in the Frederik

[OSM-talk] SEO

2008-10-24 Thread SteveC
All CloudMade have some people experienced in Search Engine Optimisation and we'd like to offer their time to look at making OSM push higher up search results. Basically we think it would be nice that if you search for 'free maps' and things like that then OSM comes up to the top. What do

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

2008-11-02 Thread SteveC
than 90 seconds thought, please let me review the history of BSD vs. GPL On 2 Nov 2008, at 22:52, Joseph Gentle wrote: I'll post it to the main list later this afternoon. I just wanted to get feedback from you guys first. -J On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:42 PM, SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-02 Thread SteveC
You should rotate the options randomly and also try some of the consequences in the question also a) Would you like OSM to always be inferior to TeleAtlas and Navteq and probably die (PD license) b) Would you like OSM to be the best map on the planet (viral license)) c) This requires more

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-02 Thread SteveC
On 2 Nov 2008, at 23:35, Joseph Gentle wrote: Steve: I disagree with your opinion. So do _many_ others. and so _many_ others disagree with you I think OSM would be vastly improved by being more open and free. I think our maps would be improved with more mapping and less lawyering. Under

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread SteveC
On 3 Nov 2008, at 00:12, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Lunes, 3 de Noviembre de 2008, Joseph Gentle escribió: The public domain will benefit OSM. Could we stop making PD-vs-SA flamewars that will lead nowhere, please?

Re: [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

2008-11-03 Thread SteveC
On 3 Nov 2008, at 02:09, Joseph Gentle wrote: 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

[OSM-talk] Mapping party photo

2008-11-07 Thread SteveC
Does anyone have a good idea of a photo of people at a mapping party looking like they're having fun, maybe holding a GPS and talking... that kind of thing. It would be great to use this on mapping party wiki pages but I've only found drinking-related photos... :) Best Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] Make Messaging public, or other changes?

2008-11-24 Thread SteveC
Um it sounds like we need a system to report abuse rather than just making it public? On 23 Nov 2008, at 13:21, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask for a quick show of hands on the idea of making the whole built-in OSM messaging system public (not retroactively of course,

[OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-08 Thread SteveC
Some notes on using Karlsruhe schema... nodes on a way but not a relation schema needs to have addr:street=foo on the addressing way ? addr:housename needs to be added, or addr:housenumber needs to be explicit that it can be a name, or made a more generic term to encompass both wiki pages

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-08 Thread SteveC
On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:41, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: nodes on a way but not a relation schema needs to have addr:street=foo on the addressing way ? The original idea was to (by default) assume that the street name is the name tag of the nearest highway (i.e. no addr

Re: [OSM-talk] addressing

2008-12-09 Thread SteveC
On 8 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Jochen Topf wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:37:00PM -0800, SteveC wrote: On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:41, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: nodes on a way but not a relation schema needs to have addr:street=foo on the addressing way ? The original idea

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] Announcement: Second City, Birmingham, and its surrounds completed

2008-12-23 Thread SteveC
Seriously, super, awesome cool. On 23 Dec 2008, at 09:37, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: It is with great pleasure, and not just a little excitement, that I can announce that the mappers in Birmingham having set the task of completing the whole of the city by Christmas have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Trademark applications

2009-01-19 Thread SteveC
/wiki/Trademark I have exchanged a number of emails with the foundation over the past month on this matter about some changes that have been made since the board meeting however I fail to see how what has been done protects the project. I would invite SteveC or Andy to explain on this list what

[OSM-talk] 0.6 move and downtime

2009-01-19 Thread SteveC
Dear all We had a review call today on the technical side of OSM and one of the things that came up was the transition to API 0.6 http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6 API 0.6 is the latest and greatest in OSM APIs and brings scrummy goodness like changesets.

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM screenshot

2009-01-25 Thread SteveC
Thanks :-) On 23 Jan 2009, at 01:35, LeedsTracker wrote: 2009/1/23 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Anyone feel like updating the JOSM screenshots to the 21st century :-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM Done! cheers, LT Best Steve

[OSM-talk] Server donation drive

2009-02-06 Thread SteveC
I just wanted to point out some fun donations http://donate.openstreetmap.org/ as you can follow along here: http://donate.openstreetmap.org/comments/ CloudMade is donating £2k. Richard Weait dropped $1,000 ! My personal favourite: Johnny Carlsen donated £5 because I

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-15 Thread SteveC
No... because anybody could post any content there and it's not always very relevant either. Best Steve On 15 Feb 2009, at 11:15, OJ W wrote: The OSM front page has a news blog link - should that go to http://blogs.openstreetmap.org/ rather than http://www.opengeodata.org/ ? (gives

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Feb 2009, at 11:31, Peter Miller wrote: On 15 Feb 2009, at 14:29, 80n wrote: So, what makes opengeodata.org the official OpenStreetMap blog anyway? It's linked prominently on the OSM front page. Who contributes to it? I have an account there and most posts appear to be

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-17 Thread SteveC
On 17 Feb 2009, at 00:18, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: As you both know several years of work went in to that blog, and not just by me. Maybe you should both think twice before dismissing it all. It would help if, instead of * singling out participants (you both

Re: [OSM-talk] News blog link - to blogs.openstreetmap.org?

2009-02-17 Thread SteveC
the development and progress of OSM in the early months/years. Steve, would you be ok with those entries being copied? Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk- boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of 80n Sent: 17 February 2009 11:02 AM To: SteveC Cc

[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-02 Thread SteveC
Something that's come up a few times in chatting to people is the front page design of the website and how it's been pretty static for a long time. That's pretty cool as nobody has felt the need to hack it away and it's sprouted some cool additions with time. But there are some things that

[OSM-legal-talk] License to kill

2009-03-03 Thread SteveC
Where to begin? Why don't we start with the beautiful community we've built and the stunning map can be the backdrop. On this canvas lets spread the pieces of the puzzle and see if we can put a few things together. We have incredible coders. We have mappers that stay up all night adding

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

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 11:27, Frederik Ramm wrote: Steve reluctant to publish publicly as it would invite another round of changes. Blimey, if you talk to people, they might have ideas and suggestions or even want to CHANGE something. Better keep things to yourself and complain later.

Re: [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 04:01, Peter Miller wrote: My main criticism in relation to license Steve is not that you are 'evil' but that you have been absent. Your last post in relation to the license on legal-talk was over three months go (25th Nov). Given that you are the only person who has

Re: [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
with volunteers... there are pros and cons. Then just keep pointing to the web page that outlines the structures, processes and notes/minutes/FAQs etc. Best of luck to you, Jordan and everyone else. Regards, Tom On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 20:28:32 -0800, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Where

Re: [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 08:12, Gervase Markham wrote: So lets concentrate on that. Lets build a better process. Lets build a consensus. Absolutely! As long as you allow us the time to (i.e. slow down and stop trying to get it done by the end of March!), then I'm all for that :-) Maybe I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 16:08, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Basically, you get enough people (and pay for their memberships) in order to buy their votes, in order to eject the current chairman, yadda yadda yadda. If you're unhappy with the current chairman you don't

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
I think others have responded well to most of your rant, if not the please point it out and I'll respond. On 3 Mar 2009, at 23:33, Ulf Lamping wrote: Hi! I'm not sure you're aware, but you're currently on the best way to make the license to kill phrase come true! First of all: If

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 06:49, LeedsTracker wrote: 2009/3/4 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: On the other hand, I'm absolutely sure that the ODbL will fail and be exploited. The same way that the GPL2 was exploited by TiVo. I'm absolutely sure the ODbL will not address problems in

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 12:02, Nop wrote: Hi! Iván Sánchez Ortega schrieb: El Miércoles, 4 de Marzo de 2009, Ulf Lamping escribió: Hopefully you know and trust the lawyers, foundation, whoever, ... involved. WE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THEM SO WHY SHOULD WE MAGICALLY TRUST THEM?!? Because they

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 12:28, Nop wrote: Hi! Russ Nelson schrieb: Hopefully you know and trust the lawyers, foundation, whoever, ... involved. WE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THEM SO WHY SHOULD WE MAGICALLY TRUST THEM?!? You can't. There is no magic wand to create trust. Only through time

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 14:53, Russ Nelson wrote: On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Nop wrote: And I never heard of it until now. And wasn't in OSM when it was posted. Fair enough, but any time you join a group there will be efforts underway which you haven't contributed to, not know about, nor

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 16:57, Matt Amos wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:49 AM, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote: 3. Define a way for feedback from the community. Maybe some unoffical votes would have given an impression on how well a particular idea would have worked. Maybe put up a poll

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 16:20, Nop wrote: Hi! Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb: Out of curiosity, what would have been better? The licence has been recognised to be a problem for years, it was known well before I joined. It's been discussed at almost every OSM meeting I've been at. But you're

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 16:40, MP wrote: I personally had no idea about the license change before it got posted on this list few days ago and I am contributing to OSM for more than year and half... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RpSv3HjpEw Best Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 07:00, Jason Cunningham wrote: Hi All I've read through a bundle of licence emails, and there is one aspect that worries me, which hopefully someone can clarify. From my understanding (and I dont speak legalese), under the CCBYSA license you can take OSM data, create

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 10:26, Dave Stubbs wrote: 2009/3/4 Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: They used the map to pin the locations - the points did not come from some other map. Therefore it is derived (this is

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
by the way OSMF asked for. I can't remember if it was Richard 'fake stevec' F, andy or me. But I remember the discussion vividly when we met Jordan I think the first time. So if they're just pinning the locations on the paper map, that's fine. But if they are reading off the lat/lon from

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 15:56, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Matt Amos wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: Your 8 year old kids would be obliged to license their butterfly data under the ODbL [1] and attribute OSM. [1] Ignoring potential bug in 0.9

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 17:39, SteveC wrote: You can come to my house and I will make you dinner and you can inspect under my bed there is no satanic portal to the 3rd circle of Hell. In fact you are all welcome. I will cook you my awesome (awsum) organic, 100% Free Of Everything cracked pepper

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
On 27 Feb 2009, at 05:04, Ben Laenen wrote: It looks like we finally got some kind of License plan for the step towards the new license, so everyone check http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan Let me start with the obvious questions first: * why don't

[OSM-talk] Post tastsic questions of my own

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
Where to begin? Well FakeSteveC hasn't blogged so far so it's all going fine if that's your metric. I've replied to a ton of messages, no doubt in an evil conspiratorial way to own your souls in the netherworld. I hope it's been a useful braindump on a lot of issues and we can build

Re: [OSM-talk] Derived coordinates are facts (was: Re: Question about supplying own data)

2009-03-04 Thread SteveC
My last reply tonight, I have to go but: On 4 Mar 2009, at 17:41, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've asked multiple lawyers about this personally. There is a popular project in Switzerland called openaddresses.ch

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:51, Nop wrote: 2. Provide translations of this in the major languages. Most people speak English to some degree, but some don't and something of this importance and with so much legalese involved does need to be in your native language to be sure you understood it.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:42, Nop wrote: Hi! SteveC schrieb: To me this is similar to ignorance of the law is no defence. The data, people and facts are out there and it's not our job to serve them up to you in the specific best way you want. We will help all we can when you ask

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 00:14, Nop wrote: Hi! SteveC schrieb: We've not always done a great job of communicating for a variety of reasons but it was never with malice. But you have actually succeeded in making quite a number of people suspect malice - and warn others about that. I do

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

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:24, 80n wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:48 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On 4 Mar 2009, at 08:12, Gervase Markham wrote: So lets concentrate on that. Lets build a better process. Lets build a consensus. Absolutely! As long as you allow us the time

Re: [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 01:11, Peter Miller wrote: On 5 Mar 2009, at 00:29, SteveC wrote: For your interest my company's lawyer (acting for ITO World Ltd) is hoping to have her response together in relation to the license by the end of tomorrow. My company will review her comments

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 18:03, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: One of the things I didn't mention in my long post an that most of you clearly don't understand is that a court takes *intent* in to account as guidence in any license dispute. So like case law you can spend all

Re: [OSM-talk] Post tastsic questions of my own

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 22:27, Nic Roets wrote: My second question goes to those who live in the various countries that aren't bankrupt... oh I mean those that aren't in the UK. How is the community there? Is it bad? Is it good? How can we help. What are Just to give you an idea of how crazy

Re: [OSM-talk] Post tastsic questions of my own

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 00:55, Frederik Ramm wrote: Steve, (Has someone told you that you're overly concerned about your Fake self? He seems to make an appearance in every second post you write.) I love him. I want to *be* him. SteveC wrote: Over IM and email I've had some really positive

Re: [OSM-talk] Post tastsic questions of my own

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 4 Mar 2009, at 19:46, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Thursday 05 March 2009 07:37:28 SteveC wrote: My second question goes to those who live in the various countries that aren't bankrupt... oh I mean those that aren't in the UK. How is the community there? Is it bad? Is it good? How can we

Re: [OSM-talk] Post tastsic questions of my own

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 04:50, Gustav Foseid wrote: Are you stirring dissent? Are you trying to build a consensus? I have provided my view, that the idea behind the license is better than the current CC-BY-SA, but that some legal aspects needs to be sorted out. We have one person from a major

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
You too Andy, great post. On 5 Mar 2009, at 02:57, Andy Allan wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:40 AM, MP singular...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. At least when you expect 10 people to go along and the issue has the potential to break OSM apart, it would not be a bad idea to send monthly

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
Great post Dair! On 5 Mar 2009, at 02:04, Dair Grant wrote: Nop wrote: I want to correct something here, there is this view of 100,000 users needing consent. The number is in fact far smaller for people who ever made an edit (about 30% of the users). It's vastly smaller still for

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? - How to make a nightmare come true!

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 03:35, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Andy Allan wrote: 1) Make the plan and the draft public. Ask for feedback. 2) Wait for feedback to be taken into account and expect/hope for a final version of the ODbL 3) See if the OSMF board approves 4) See if OSMF members like what

Re: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

2009-03-05 Thread SteveC
On 5 Mar 2009, at 08:36, David Earl wrote: (lost track of who said this, but...) Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've asked multiple lawyers about this personally. Are you saying that facts that are derived from a Produced Work are not covered by the reverse

Re: [OSM-talk] Cloudmade: We are the Wikipedia of maps

2009-03-10 Thread SteveC
another fantastic 1. Someone makes a mistake 2. ??? 3. It's Steves fault Bet you were itching to make todays Guardian mistake my fault too, eh? I can tell you Frederik that I and the rest of us at CloudMade take great pains to explain the differences between CM and OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics and TIGER import question: What happened in August 2007?

2009-03-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Mar 2009, at 17:55, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I'm looking at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Osmdbstats2.png and I wonder why there is a sudden drop in the node count immediately before commencing the TIGER import. - It looks as if half our database was deleted immediately

Re: [OSM-talk] Statistics and TIGER import question: What happened in August 2007?

2009-03-16 Thread SteveC
On 16 Mar 2009, at 18:55, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: the old tiger import, which was very broken, was deleted Thanks all. - I thought that the old import had been deleted long before that but I think now I remember that it had been deleted from current and was still alive

[OSM-legal-talk] License Working Group meeting today

2009-03-18 Thread SteveC
Dear all Due to some phone problems for one of our number being unable to dial in to the call, we decided that we should postpone by a day to sort those issues out. We covered a little ground - essentially that we've not had back feedback from OSMFs lawyer yet and some slight changes to

[OSM-talk] SOTM Logo Competition

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
http://www.stateofthemap.org/2009/03/25/help-us-make-a-logo/ The SOTM working group is pleased to announce a call for logo designs. Our existing logos have served us well and the time is right to look further afield to make sure we have the best design possible. We’ve put together a Design

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
On 21 Mar 2009, at 14:35, Simon Ward wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Ulf Möller wrote: Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons has posted detailed comments on the ODbL on the co-ment website. I think I’ve seen many of those arguments from the Science Commons project before, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
On 22 Mar 2009, at 06:08, 80n wrote: Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons writes: While some complexities are introduced by differences in background legal doctrines, others are introduced by the ODbL scheme itself. These two points about the complexity of the ODbL are important ones that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
On 23 Mar 2009, at 05:47, John Wilbanks wrote: From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Though I have a lot of time for CC in general, and agree with their general stance that PD is the ideal way to go, I don't really find that a very useful response. I count 20 occurrences of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
On 23 Mar 2009, at 06:44, John Wilbanks wrote: But open data is much more than just science and education. It's more than OSM; it's more than maps. The assiduous how-late-is-my-sodding-train-today people on our town website, for example, are creating a database that could potentially be

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM Logo Competition

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
I rather stupidly forgot the bit about the winning entry would entitle the creator to a free weekend ticket to SOTM: The winning entry will be rewarded with a full weekend ticket to SOTM! Best Steve On 25 Mar 2009, at 09:51, SteveC wrote: http://www.stateofthemap.org/2009/03/25/help-us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-25 Thread SteveC
On 25 Mar 2009, at 11:34, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:36 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 06:08, 80n wrote: The complexity arguments are largely superfluous. [...] I get in my car every day and drive to work without knowing how the engine management

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