Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL at SOTM

2009-03-27 Thread SteveC
Frederik It was something I was going to do. We haven't discussed it, yet, at the LWG calls and will at the next meeting. I strongly agree with you. Best Steve On 27 Mar 2009, at 08:39, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, I am of the opinion that there absolutely needs to be a presentation

[OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. There is some stuff in the talk page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Relation:restriction Anyone care to provide an explanation? The reason I ask is

[OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
Has there been any discussion on what people here feel 'substantial' means in the context of the definitions of the ODbL? I've banged around the wiki looking but might might have missed it. Here's the first important bit relevant to this in the ODbL: Extraction – Means the permanent or temporary

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I don't see a clear explanation as to why there is ambiguity if you don't do turn restrictions at the end of ways on the wiki. There is some stuff in the talk page

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:32, Teemu Koskinen wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:36 +0300, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:34:05 +0300, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I don't see a clear explanation as to why

Re: [OSM-talk] Turn restrictions ambiguity

2009-04-23 Thread SteveC
On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:34, Tobias Knerr wrote: SteveC wrote: On 23 Apr 2009, at 12:17, Teemu Koskinen wrote: If both from and to ways continue after the via point and neither is one-way, there's two possible ways to interpret it: the restriction could apply when coming from either

[OSM-talk] Denmark contact

2009-05-06 Thread SteveC
Is there anyone here from the CPH area that can be a contact for organising an OSM event? We've been offered some space to do something near a conference, reboot 11. Please drop me a line. PS the Denmark wiki page needs love, doesn't even link to the DK mailing list. Well, now it does.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF Chairman's position about other peoples opinions when they don't share his own opinion. I'm not allowed to have opinions? Is this the organization you want to hand over the license of

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Liz wrote: SteveC marked the NO page as in dispute. No, he didn't mark the YES page as in dispute. If there was no dispute there would be no need for a vote. I answered this on osmf-talk, why're you bringing it up over here? There was a dispute, I marked

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, SteveC wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Liz wrote: SteveC marked the NO page as in dispute. No, he didn't mark the YES page as in dispute. If there was no dispute there would be no need for a vote. I answered

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 17:17, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, you wrote: Don't you mean rather than admit I was wrong or talk about it where I brought it up, much better to try and stir the pot on another list? i have not made personal comments about any one i

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:43, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Are you also living on planet Frederik? Out of all the crazy claims this has to be the most crazy. Where have you been the past year of consultations? How

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:55, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 19:40, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. And you are coming off just as unrational as you are claiming they are being and not helping fence sitters one bit. Read

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
wrongly is better than not to think at all. -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: SteveC st...@asklater.com Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:35:13 To: Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com Cc: talk@openstreetmap.orgtalk@openstreetmap.org; Tom Hughest...@compton.nu Subject: Re

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 20:25, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF Chairman's position about other peoples

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 20:51, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Steve, SteveC wrote: How is insulting people going to help things? By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. I understand that most statements you are responding to seem stupid, unnecessary or inappropriate

Re: [OSM-talk] Thank you, LWG

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:03, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Richard Weait schrieb: I think the LWG has done a good job on a difficult task. A task that we, as a community, asked them to do for us because we couldn't implement a license change as a group of 20,000 (at the time)

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:15, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 19:40, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. And you are coming off just

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
Of course they said that, they only support PD-like licenses *as a policy*. It's pretty stupid but that's their policy. It's like the RIAA have a closed policy and the consensus is viral in OSM. Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:36, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:52, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Of course they said that, they only support PD-like licenses *as a policy*. What a non-sense, every academic works with attribution of past work. Including

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 21:53, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Of course they said that, they only support PD-like licenses *as a policy*. PD-like licenses? You mean for databases of facts? Or am I misinterpreting PD-like

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Lambertus schreef: I'm just curious... why? You misunderstand: Google would get my data for free and keep it closed. You'd only be able to use it the way Google intends it to be used:

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Nick, Oleg, thank you for answering. I'm quite surprised that you are working directly from the API. Nick writes: The server is actually quite responsive for POIs - maybe its because node queries are faster than way queries and

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Well, you may think Creative Commons is stupid, but I hope others will give them a chance and listen to what they have to say. I think they will, considering that Creative

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, 80n wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Matt Amos schreef: we're talking about moving to another license with very similar requirements, but a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Michael Barabanov wrote: I wonder how easy it is in fact to usefully take the OSM data without giving things back, even with the current license. Seems to me, not so easy. OSM data is not perfect. To create a value-add, a commercial entity would have to

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 8:25 PM, 80n wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF Chairman's position about other peoples opinions when they don't share his

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You cannot see the process how Cloudmade, Geofabrik and others process their data. Well the huge difference is that OSM is under a reciprocal license, What

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: I have no idea what that means. I had no idea about reciprocal license either. Ask Google. It might have something to do with the fact that they want to own all

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: I think that developing their own tools, infrastructure, branding, product management... for MapMaker might give away what they think about that. I think you

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Thread SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Ed Avis wrote: SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed downloads and you will not be able to continue contributing

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote: I don't know about that legal stuff in detail, but I agree that CC0 would probably be the best licence. If OSM won't go and really try to sue people, why protect the data? And why protect the data at all?

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:22 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote: I don't know about that legal stuff in detail, but I agree that CC0 would probably be the best licence. If OSM won't go

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: doesn't apply to Geodata. Because...? Factual data. What you are attempting to enforce is the viral effect, which directly is what you also try to overcome... So I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:43 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:22 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote: I don't know

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: doesn't apply to Geodata. Because...? Factual

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: So I can't license data because it's factual? You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license for what you couldn't /copyright/ in the first place

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:04 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Anthony wrote: There's no reason to license data if it's factual. You're jumping from your pseudo-legal argument to your moral argument. It would

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: SteveC schreef: So I can't license data because it's factual? You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license for what you couldn't /copyright

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I want it to be SA. Morally, I want my data to be SA. CC-BY-SA, to be specific. Well that doesn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I want it to be SA. The legal points you make are just supporting cases that you're cherry picking to help you. I don't *morally* want PD, I *morally* want

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: You asked why it doesn't work, and there is a wealth of information on the list and the wiki... There are a lot of claims on the list and the wiki that CC-BY-SA doesn't work

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Trevor, let me guess that you feel people with actual law degrees like the two that helped the LWG are wrong and you are right based on your 6th sense? Who's Trevor? My pet troll

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Trevor, let me guess that you feel people with actual law degrees like the two that helped the LWG are wrong and you

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, SteveC wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I want it to be SA. Morally, I want

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Anthony wrote: I never said someone with a law degree would never make such a statement. I said they are no more qualified to make such a statement than anyone else. So let me get this straight, lawyers are not more qualified to make legal arguments than anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, SteveC wrote: Well that doesn't work, Why doesn't it work? See legal-talk ad nauseum. I've read the whole lot, over an 18 month period of time, and there is no proof that CC-by-SA doesn't work I've not seen anything proving

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is however quite stupid to think that only 265 people care enough about their data to be worth a vote The vote isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? to do what, relicense

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA doesn't work and what work actually means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that CC-BY-SA won't hold ;) So if IP lawyers cannot convince you, who

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-07 Thread SteveC
On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Dave F. wrote: I realize most people have fallen asleep on this thread, but did anyone get a detailed report on why OSM was rejected? It's like Encyclopedia Britannica looking to move to Wikipedia in 2004 or something, printing out a lot of books and getting

Re: [OSM-talk] Playing tagging democracy: standard building process and tag unifying towards it

2010-02-07 Thread SteveC
On Feb 3, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Dave F. wrote: This won't happen if none of the map creators are taking the data because they think it's crap. Saying 'none' is exceptional hyperbole. Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This is inspired by the huge amount of effort that went in to mapping Haiti by people all over the world. -- So please

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
- Van: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] Namens SteveC Verzonden: dinsdag 9 februari 2010 19:42 Aan: Talk Openstreetmap Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] Project of the week Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Re: [OSM-talk] Project of the week

2010-02-09 Thread SteveC
On Feb 9, 2010, at 5:43 PM, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: Hi Thought I'd try to put this together: -- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Project_of_the_week Every week, OSMers everywhere are invited to help in this weeks project. This is inspired by the huge amount of effort

[OSM-talk] Conference in Budapest later this month

2010-02-13 Thread SteveC
Anyone in or near Budapest please give Gabor a shout to speak at a conf about OSM... Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-20 Thread SteveC
I've posted a design concept with description and invitation for feedback here: http://opengeodata.org/new-design-concept-for-openstreetmaporg Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Inquiry about Egnos / Indoor mapping

2010-02-20 Thread SteveC
On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: Hi all, I received the following inquiry from Thomas Hallauer of TheWhereBusiness: - Is Egnos being used by the community? it's live, it's free but I am trying to find out how available it is (and if it helps)? yes and yes and yes

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-20 Thread SteveC
On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: http://opengeodata.org/new-design-concept-for-openstreetmaporg Whatever merits the (external, commercial) uservoice.com service might have, I am extremely sceptical about using it for openstreetmap.org. Join

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-20 Thread SteveC
On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, SteveC wrote: Wrong. Map bugs. Did you read my post Fred ? :-) So you meant to integrate uservoice.com instead of integrating openstreetbugs? But can their system tie notes to map locations? Well I'll go further. openstreetbugs

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: openstreetbugs is basically there but has a crappy UI. It needs to be 1) click 'feedback' or 'problem' 2) enter problem 3) click ok ok and then? who will pick it up and fix it? I will. look at openstreetbugs and most could

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:05 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 21/02/10 07:16, SteveC wrote: On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: SteveC wrote: http://opengeodata.org/new-design-concept-for-openstreetmaporg Whatever merits the (external, commercial) uservoice.com service might have

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 21/02/10 07:38, SteveC wrote: On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:20 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: SteveC wrote: Wrong. Map bugs. Did you read my post Fred ? :-) So you meant to integrate uservoice.com instead of integrating openstreetbugs? But can

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Kai Krueger wrote: the extra step of clicking where the problem is should not happen, we should get that from the bbox or center point plus zoom. So with some changes I think we can integrate OSB and expose it front and center to help fix up the bugs. Are

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Robert Funnell wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, SteveC wrote: ... It's very clear that nobody can convince Richard to actually write something any muggle would really want to use, you can scream at him to finish the mythical Potlatch 2 all you want, but he doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Dave F. wrote: How is zooming all the way in repeatedly panning around to centre up, quicker than one click to _accurately_ locate the problem? Hi, you've never done a UI review. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/UX_and_Usability_Study Money quote: Every

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Chris Hill wrote: SteveC wrote: 2) We have to be very clear that the openstreetmap.org website is _awful_. Horrendous. A total PITA. We're all here because we're persistent with it. But the wonderful thing is - we don't have to make the tools and site easy

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Dave F. wrote: Hi, you've never done a UI review. http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/UX_and_Usability_Study Money quote: Every user in this study struggled to get a basic grasp of the editing interface. Despite users’ overall excitement about

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: Oh, please... ...Yawn. That kind of sums you up. /me prods the troll Yours c. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Dave F. wrote: SteveC wrote: Oh, please... ...Yawn. That kind of sums you up. /me prods the troll I'm a troll because I disagree with you? No, because you live under a bridge with your

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 16:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: ... It's very clear that nobody can convince Richard to actually write something any muggle would really want to use, you can scream at him to finish the mythical

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
The problem with your analysis is pretty simple - maybe those people left because the site was crap, not because they inherently don't like adding more than 10 things. Maybe if we make it better, they will add a lot more. On Feb 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] OSM front page design concept

2010-02-21 Thread SteveC
On Feb 21, 2010, at 18:57, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/2/21 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Sure. In Germany you have this amazing community where there's a stamptish around every corner. But out here it's much harder and we need these easier tools to build

[OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
I really liked something I read in The New New thing ( http://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/0140296468/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_7 ) about Jim Clark ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Clark ) when the author Michael Lewis would ask about the past of his companies and stuff he'd

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:27 PM, John Smith wrote: On 24 February 2010 06:17, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: In the middle we have a bunch of thought on how the site should or shouldn't be. Legitimate questions about putting the map or help up front, or using OSB or uservoice, or some new

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I know matt takes it personally that the logo is anything other than perfect, and richard takes it personally that potlatch is crap for newbies... but that's just fact

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/10 21:35, SteveC wrote: oh sure - if you have any specific ones that annoy you I can try and explain why I was short. I think mainly it was just very annoying how TomH pissed all over it straight away which is actually pretty unlike

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:33 PM, John Smith wrote: On 24 February 2010 07:30, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: For the 3 millionth time, I'm not proposing uservoice for map bugs! :-) Well the same question goes for any proposal, but you keep mentioning them, but the question is still valid

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/10 21:46, SteveC wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: Did you read the long blog post I wrote the next morning where I attempted to be more constructive? No, sorry Tom, where was that? http://compton.nu/2010

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
it all in that tab too)... I dunno how we'd realistically answer the question of a total new start over design - pretty hard. On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:12 PM, SteveC wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/10 21:46, SteveC wrote: On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Tom

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
Thanks Dermot, you put it better than I did. On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Dermot McNally wrote: On 23 February 2010 20:17, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: An excellent and though-provoking post. It's rare to read something of that length on such touchy subjects and agree with so much

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:17 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I know matt takes it personally that the logo is anything other than perfect, and richard takes it personally that potlatch is crap for newbies... but that's just fact

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
, and we're just ignoring the ideas because we don't like them? That's a hard one to call. Yours c. Steve On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: On 23/02/10 22:12, SteveC wrote: As you can see from uservoice, things you highlight like routing are very important to people out there. You

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
. Steve On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:17 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I know matt takes it personally that the logo is anything other than perfect, and richard takes it personally that potlatch is crap for newbies... but that's just fact

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Steve, it would be easier for me if you could fragment your ideas more and then propose them in digestible 20-line blocks or so. And then distribute this over a few weeks instead of creating a flurry every half year. Do you have an

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Steve Doerr wrote: On 23/02/2010 20:17, SteveC wrote: [snip] What's uservoice? What's trac? What's PL1? :-) UserVoice is a neat feedback-as-a-service website which lets anyone put a feedback tab on their site and collect user views on what should be fixed

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-23 Thread SteveC
On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:01 PM, John Smith wrote: On 24 February 2010 09:42, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: You don't seem to make any realistic suggestions for moving forward and just, instead, suggest potlatch is fine as is the front page. That doesn't seem to be in touch with the reality

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread SteveC
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:42 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Thanks for your thoughtful comments... And I hope you've taken some of them on board. You don't seem to make any realistic suggestions for moving forward and just, instead

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread SteveC
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:07 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: * Freeze PL1 (TomH enforces no more updated on the server) and work on PL2 Wow. You'd really try to prevent any improvements that have been coded from being deployed? That's

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread SteveC
Chris On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Chris Hill wrote: SteveC wrote: [snip] Right up front we have the school of thought that everything is perfect the way it is. That uservoice is some kind of inherently crappy system (see the uservoice ideas page at http://osm.uservoice.com/ ). That we

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread SteveC
On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:37 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:07 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: * Freeze PL1 (TomH enforces no more updated on the server

Re: [OSM-talk] Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back

2010-02-24 Thread SteveC
On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:06 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:42 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Sure, you don't like the way I communicate sometimes Hmm

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