Re: [talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Australian Decliners, As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is about to run out. You and others didn't care about us, told us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] There is no copyright on way tags like street names

2011-12-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 December 2011 18:52, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: Some reasons that I think it'd be risky to use that fact that there's no copyright in some tags are: * copyright works this way in many jurisdictions but in other jurisdictions the creativity factor is less important and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 November 2011 05:09, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: But I think that the specific example under discussion here actually falls short of even this lowered bar. It is quite possible for me to grab a whole Way in JOSM and move it one metre to the left (which makes me the last

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-31 Thread John Smith
On 31 October 2011 14:44, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Are you suggesting that data.gov.au aren't aware of their own license terms or that they are acting outside of their terms?  What evidence to you provide to support your accusations? A non-trivial amount of data is listed as

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 October 2011 12:30, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I think that data.gov.au can be taken at their word and that they have a clear understanding of which rights they may or may not grant. They're a clearing house, nothing more, and don't own any of the content.

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-10-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 October 2011 13:10, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: And still, they'd know what they may and may not permit. You haven't dealt with government plebs much have you? They are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious,

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-26 Thread John Smith
On 25 September 2011 15:58, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Secondly, With the greatest respect to the user concerned, who has been a great contributor to OSM, I don't think we need necessarily respect his wishes. We need to look a bit more carefully at this area to see if anything

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 September 2011 10:48, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Quoting Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com: I'm sure we are interested in the history of the development of the road network, but I'm not sure our database is the place for the information right now. For those interested, a

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 September 2011 16:31, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: The Princes Highway is an historical curiosity, and internal name management name assigned by the NSW roads authority, and the name of a bunch of roads between Sydney and Adelaide. It isn't a route any longer. It's still a

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 September 2011 15:49, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: I write I just have something against this relation, because it is arbitrary and confusing and you write So your entire argument is that we should delete the whole route because it isn't contiguous? Most routes are arbitrary

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 September 2011 15:19, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: Nah, that is all good to me. I've got nothing against relations. Nothing against routes. Nothing against multiple relations and multiple routes. In fact, I'd have nothing against a parent relation that linked the sections of

Re: [talk-au] Charleville, Qld survey suggestions sought

2011-09-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 September 2011 13:09, Christopher Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: Hi, I'm in Charleville, Qld for a couple of days with an iPhone, a garmin oregon GPS and, from tomorrow, a vehicle. The place is pretty much unsurveyed, but the DCDB has been used to add streets so the road geometry is

Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??

2011-09-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 September 2011 13:26, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more. If you were using

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 September 2011 12:50, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: This document tells which roads are RTA funded, and which are local roads, and does have a Princes Hwy route for the purposes of funding. However, I really believe we should stick to mapping what is on the ground, else we are

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 September 2011 12:20, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: According to Wikipedia, it should extend all the way from Adelaide to Sydney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_Highway If memory serves correctly, it changes name through Melbourne.

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 September 2011 07:13, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: In general I think it is common that a highway has a different name when it goes through a town. Here the route continues, and will often be signposted with the route number. I'm not sure if that is the case for every road in

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 September 2011 12:27, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Princes Highway is part of route 1. This isn't helpful. National Route 1 and the Princes Hwy diverge at many points. National Route 1 follows the Southern Freeway south from Sydney for a start. So what, how does that make

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-03 Thread John Smith
On 3 September 2011 19:12, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: This is really the wrong list for this discussion, but as I've pointed out before there are further minor points that would have to be considered, for example voting rights on future license changes. Obviously you could simply

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-09-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 September 2011 14:03, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: be difficult to prove. Since 1) the defense is strong, 2) the harm is minimal, 3) cooperation is full, you should expect absolutely nobody to sue the OSMF for infringement of works which are supposedly PD or CT but not really.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Adopt a PD-Mapper ....... was Re: Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2011 18:25, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Obviously I would clearly prefer that the mappers in question simply discover some pragmatism and get over any issues they may have with the OSMF. That's an interesting spin on things, wouldn't the pragmatic approach be for OSM-F to

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 17:06, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: - ignore trolling by JohnSmith Funny way to ignore someone, in any case here's at least one particular example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/aharvey/diary/14416 ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 10:19, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is What about the people that agreed to the CTs that had data compatible with the current license, cc-by-sa ?

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-30 Thread John Smith
On 31 August 2011 15:43, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: John Smith writes: On 31 August 2011 10:19, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: I think the strategy to remove all non-CT compliant data in one big bang is What about the people that agreed to the CTs that had

Re: [OSM-talk] [osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 August 2011 19:15, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Hasn't it happened in the past that large numbers of Cloudmade employees have joined the OSMF? That didn't cause the organization to be somehow subverted, and neither will people who work for Skobbler (or Microsoft, or whoever). In

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 August 2011 22:26, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com writes: This was completely easy in the past, but is it realistic to keep OSMF relatively unimportant if it is rights holder for all the data? It might be better to spin off a separate

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 August 2011 07:46, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: As I remember it from previous discussions, wifi locations are somewhat transient for OSM. Cell tower locations are likely from government databases are they not? Google etc estimate location of towers by using data handsets

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-28 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2011 14:22, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 July 2011 21:52, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Now that said I don't really care which tag is used for the 'full' name. I'd personally prefer the name tag was used for this because it has always been

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 July 2011 20:01, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: (I'm only talking about the UK, of course, and in fact this discussion would be better on talk-gb.) The person that started this thread is in New Zealand... ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 July 2011 20:50, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: While St Albans isn't big enough to feature in the list in this document, it does have St. Helens (sic). Why the period? The district council's website The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate Saint,

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 July 2011 21:21, Paul Jaggard p...@jaggard.net wrote: From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period. Exactly the opposite according to my (Collins) dictionary

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 July 2011 21:48, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: Commonly abbreviated S. or St. ... Abbreviations: S. and St., pl. SS. and Sts. Since the 18th c. ‘St.’ is the form usually employed; but since about 1830 ‘S.’ has been favoured by ecclesiologists. In place-names, and in family

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 July 2011 22:00, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: John Smith wrote: The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period. Not in British English, it isn't. _Saint._ St or S. is better than St

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Help Planet.osm.bz2 import error.

2011-07-25 Thread John Smith
On 14 July 2011 00:49, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: No. That patch is for osm2pgsql-64 (with its support for 64bit IDs). Saphy Mo is running a plain old (more than 12 months old) 32-bit-id osm2pgsql on a Windows system. You yourself said that the 32bit version can crash if a way

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Help Planet.osm.bz2 import error.

2011-07-25 Thread John Smith
On 14 July 2011 10:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 July 2011 00:49, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: No. That patch is for osm2pgsql-64 (with its support for 64bit IDs). Saphy Mo is running a plain old (more than 12 months old) 32-bit-id osm2pgsql on a Windows

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 July 2011 02:11, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: So do I suggest to stop the license change process? No, I don't. The Contributor Terms will solve many problems on their own, so my suggestion is what could be labelled CT + CC-BY-SA. This will cause similar/same problems as

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Help Planet.osm.bz2 import error.

2011-07-13 Thread John Smith
On 13 July 2011 23:15, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Can someone help this person out? You might be hitting a memory limit, even though it's running on a 64 bit system it seems to be compiled on a 32 bit system, Anthony posted a patch to prevent exactly this sort of problem...

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Bing

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 19:55, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can upload to OSM. All we have is SteveC's word that this is what happened, to the best of my knowledge Bing themselves near released anything definitive on

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 22:58, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: (Mind you, the new license doesn't seem to keep the Brits from drawing on attribution-only sources released by *their* government but maybe the law is stricter down under?) SteveC implied that the talks with OS were more fruitful

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 12 July 2011 02:30, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: SimonPoole wrote: there is a fair chance that either the data could be relicensed under CC-by (which might be compatible with the ODbL) Absolutely. The Australian government data is CC-BY already (I'm not sure where this

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 12 July 2011 02:47, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: John Smith wrote: Unless you plan to enforce attribution as a minimum for produced works I'm not quite sure what I've done to deserve this Groundhog Day treatment and be condemned to relive the same mailing list postings

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 19:04, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: they don't have to be the same licence. That unambiguously works with ODbL (4.5a): whether it works with CC is a moot point because CC is unclear for data licensing, but it's likely that it does (after all, there are Well if

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 19:29, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: It's not using it under a licence other than CC-BY-SA. A Collective Database or Collective Work means that the ODbL part of it is under ODbL and the CC-BY-SA part is under CC-BY-SA. This is the very first clause (1a) of

Re: [talk-au] Bing

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 19:55, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can upload to OSM. All we have is SteveC's word that this is what happened, to the best of my knowledge Bing themselves near released anything definitive on

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 20:05, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: What he's saying is there is no requirement under Australian Copyright law (or CC licence) for a whole compilation/database/document to have the same licence. It's the same way the Government can use Creative Commons for

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 20:53, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: On 11/07/2011, at 8:47 PM, John Smith wrote: Then why was there such a big fuss made over Haiti edits should be PD so that the UN could mix the data with other datasets... Because they were mixing the datasets. If you do

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 00:02, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Germany 90.1% Great Britain 89.1% France 96.8% North America 96.4% Russia 97.2% Australia 48.4% You didn't show Albania which has an even low acceptance rate, nor did you comment

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 07:54, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Indeed, I was concentrating on the big guys. Albania isn't a big guy. Not sure what your point is about imports but neither GB nor Germany have particularly significant numbers of imports - the only major import we've ever

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 08:16, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Can we not - both sides - agree to work on building up our own projects, and making them as attractive as possible to users old and new, rather than knocking the other one? But my comment before sets the scene for how OSM-F

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 11:55, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: We looked around for all the people claiming that we've been ignoring them and can't actually find any posts by them on the legal lists or to the LWG for many of the people involved. Of course, with so many fake names being used

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 12:30, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: It's not worth my time responding to messages like this. I wrote a completely rational, neutral and open email outlining the things we've tried and asking for ideas of how to make it better. Yes and didn't respond to a single

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 12:42, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:34 PM, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 12:30, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: It's not worth my time responding to messages like this. I wrote a completely rational, neutral and open email outlining

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 14:53, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Can we make a list of real issues to be resolved and stick with them. There are some issues that wont be resolved, such as hurt feelings and lost trust. But we dont need to have a fight to the death over them. I'd like

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 15:09, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Mark wrote Out of interest - the greatest contributor to Australia-Oceania according to http://odbl.de/australia-oceania.html is the accound used for the suburb boundary / postcode boundary import. Once this is excluded, does

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2011 15:19, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That takes care of ways, but what about the 1.7million nodes attributed to me? Sorry, that was total objects, only a pitiful 437k nodes. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] missing messages

2011-07-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 16:18, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: It's been pointed out that I'm not replying to hundreds of messages from John Smith, Anthony and friends. I don't see them as they're automatically deleted. I find life is better without having the trolls fill my inbox. However

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 16:16, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: That's why I prefer PD because I believe there is no protection and so why bother about licenses at all? Wouldn't it be great if we could all wish away inconvenient laws like that, however morality often drives laws and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OT: artists and copyright (was Re: license change effect on un-tagged nodes)

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 16:40, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: So artists have a human right to be rich? Glad you took my point so far out of context, someone claimed that copyright existed for economic reasons. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 16:58, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: While they started out wishing OSM to suffer the least possible damage, their ego now forces them to demand the most rigid - even absurd - data deletion policies for the license change lest they look like idiots for starting a fork

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 19:23, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote: Yes, thats the consensus and has been for a long time. Some mappers always disagree, just ignore them. :-) +1 And in software, it is always easier to shorten a word

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 23:33, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: In some cases, the official name is with the abbreviation, eg St. George Bank in Australia and there is a town named St. George. Still you say Saint George, not S.T. George. Well you can ring up the bank/local government and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 21:49, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: But that doesn't mean that their content won't show up in a future ODBL map. I've noticed that John Smith doesn't want to answer my question, but perhaps you would: How far away do I have to move a node or a way so

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 13:59, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 July 2011 19:50, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 July 2011 23:33, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: In some cases, the official name is with the abbreviation, eg St. George Bank in Australia

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 00:55, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: We've gone to insanely long lengths to make that the case, including getting clarifications from Ordnance Survey, Nearmap and many others. As far as I'm aware there are no remaining issues as to why you can't click 'accept'. He said

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 06:46, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: What particularly turns me off fosm.org is that I am unable to see a map when I go to the site. Using Firefox on Linux, I click on Maps and get FOSM based tiles are being uploaded to archive.org:

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 13:26, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The vast majority of people are happy with where we are at What about the 50 odd percent of people that haven't responded? I don't see how it's reasonable to throw everything away for one guy who doesn't like his countries laws. So

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 13:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I would phrase it that the vast majority aren't lawyers and don't want to become one, therefore don't know the implications of the problems with cc. It's a false assumption, the only way it would be geo factual data is if you copied 1:1

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 14:06, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Actually, the license process has been known about for a long, long time so it's not this new turnaround you cast it as. In addition, everyone else (bing, ordnance survey...) has worked with us very reasonably. In fact it's hard to say

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Smith
On 8 July 2011 14:06, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: As for this 'uk mob' thing, that too is unreasonable. As a democratically elected board, we have members from many countries and you are invited to get involved or run for election. Is it true that you had to do a lot of rule fiddling so

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 04:03, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: Although it still seems to be controversial how clause 1 and 2 of the CT interact, with the recent draft intent of the LWG to issue a clarifying statement[1] that indeed data only has to be compatible with the current license and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 16:46, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: Then what about the attached alternative versions? For each version I started JOSM, opened a new layer, added the node (-31.069902030361792, 152.728383561) which is close to the beginning of the road, loaded the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 04:20, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 July 2011 16:46, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: Then what about the attached alternative versions? For each version I started JOSM, opened a new layer, added the node (-31.069902030361792

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 06:12, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: But even if I'm just one person the question still remains: Do you consider any of these 4 versions a violation of your copyright? Are you planning to try and replace all my work one way at a time like this? Which is of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 07:25, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: No, I just wanted to show you that you can't really tell if someone retraces a removed way by looking at an aerial imagery, by looking at the current OSM map or by just moving randomly some nodes.The same goes for IMHO

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 08:27, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Google in addition have their ToS. So one person copies tiles and breaches contract and gives them to another person who is only bound by copyright ... ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 09:34, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: That does not imply that individual contributors actually hold any rights in the data they contributed. As we know, that is a difficult question and depends on jurisdiction and so on, and my take on it would be: probably not. For all

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 09:47, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Normally none of them lead to a protected work and nobody would confuse it for creativity I'm not sure if I'm more amused that you have to try and scale things down to the size of a brick or the fact that even you state it's the morally

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 10:04, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Upps you are really confused about the origins of copyright protection, which are rather recent and had nothing to do with morals. I didn't know the late 1800s was considered rather recent ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 10:20, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Well 300 to 400 years earlier (as in printing press with movable letters) which doesn't make it recent, but still twice as old as copyright law. The main point however is that copyright law has a economic motivation, not moral as you

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 22:03, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Why on earth should we give references to proprietary data projects like mapmaker in our wiki? Including it in the list gives us a chance to link to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_map_maker

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 18:20, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: [GG] I was not talking about copyright. Copyright laws are of no use in the digital era, You were talking about databases, however databases can still store copyrightable content, in this case it's

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 22:35, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: I'd like to think all this rather dull licence bickering will play out and OSM will continue and strengthen. It's sad that people with agendas are talking up the 'possible' deletion of data, and rushing off to fork. That energy

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-06 Thread John Smith
On 7 July 2011 07:54, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: How could I add CC-BY-SA derived data if I use GPS traces, audio recordings of names, or imagery like Yahoo or Bing? The only way I could see this happening would be if I was to deliberately go out of my way to add a Actually it's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 02:49, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: I doubt if any effort in re-creating a map database of the real world can be classified as creative work, as the mapper inevitably tries to copy reality to the best of his effort, and any deviation is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 July 2011 23:04, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: What do you consider as same result? How far away do I have to place a node? If I put one additional node into the way or remove one, is that enough? The same as in an identical result, if they use the same sources then

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 July 2011 07:37, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Now if the mapper comes along and sees the river flagged for deletion, and remembers that he traveled the river in a boat, and maybe even has the GPX track, there's nothing to keep him from simply overriding the standard assumption

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 July 2011 22:44, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO the node position is never a derived work when it is updated. So for the case of the untagged node (if isolated an not part of a way, i.e. unlikely) we could keep the whole object. The position of nodes are often

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-02 Thread John Smith
On 3 July 2011 02:15, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, suppose there's a node that has been created by user A with no tags on it. Suppose the node has later been moved by user B. A has not accepted the CT, while B has. Will the node have to be removed when we go to phase 5 of

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] Multiple license declaration

2011-06-26 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: TimSC mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk Date: 27 June 2011 01:38 Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Multiple license declaration To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Hi all, I wanted to create a way for individual users to

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

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 June 2011 06:37, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Jonas Häggqvist rasher@... writes: Is the CT/ODbL compatible with CC-BY-SA? Say if an organization releases some data under CC-BY-SA, could we use it (in the CT/ODbL future)? If this were possible, then there would be no need for any

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 June 2011 06:02, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 24-6-2011 4:25, Robin Paulson wrote: mappers in NZ have recently imported a lot of grass airstrips into OSM. it appears the airstrips only render at zoom 10 on the mapnik render of the map at osm.org, which looks like this:

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 June 2011 20:19, Lennard l...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 25-6-2011 8:35, John Smith wrote: Wasn't there some discussion about that before, how important airports such as LAX should show sooner than regional airports which should show up sooner than grass airstrips. Oh, more than once

Re: [OSM-talk] the map on osm.org - airstrips showing only at zoom 10

2011-06-25 Thread John Smith
On 26 June 2011 02:38, Alan Millar grunthos...@yahoo.com wrote: As has been said a number of times, OSM is a do-ocracy. At this point, more discussions just aren't going to resolve it. A little discussion might allow us to harmonise tags, so 10 people don't go off and do their own thing and

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 18:06, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: 4. At Your or the copyright owner’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or the copyright owner. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution.; Hope that helps. I am personally

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 18:10, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: But I had a look at fosm.org yesterday and they (whoever they are - is there a fosmf?) seem to be making the same mistake that osm.org did with the original CTs; should they ever need to relicense (say move from cc-by-sa 2.0 to 3.0) the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each and every extraction of geodata ever made (planet dump, API, ...) which is the important thing. Good point though, and I have requested appropriate changes to

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? The attribution was put into the JS

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? I just noticed that osm.org is missing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:00, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: No it isn't. There's a 'Copyright License' link in the sidebar on the left. Nice and obscure... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:15, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: No, it isn't. It has the attribution right there on the Copyright License link. Unlike every other map site out there where the main attribution is at the bottom right side of the map. The Demo archive.org Tile Hosting map, on

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:47, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Maybe you just don't know enough maps - there are plenty that list attribution elsewhere. This includes lots of maps for mobile devices (because these happen to have limited screen space), but also maps that use multiple sources

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