Emilie Laffray wrote:
Unless they remove their NC (Non Commercial Use Only) clause,
colloborating with openmaps.eu http://openmaps.eu is a non sequitur.
Zaka, what do you think ? Is there any way that Openmaps.eu might in the
future evolve toward removing the non-commercial clause, or is that
On 14.01.2010 14:56, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
Emilie Laffray wrote:
Unless they remove their NC (Non Commercial Use Only) clause,
colloborating with openmaps.euhttp://openmaps.eu is a non sequitur.
Zaka, what do you think ? Is there any way that Openmaps.eu might in the
future
Unless they remove their NC (Non Commercial Use
Only) clause
Yes. That clause was the exact reason I left the mapping project
wikimapia to search for a more free/libre mapping collaboration
project(I was not expecting that most of the software used in
OpenStreetMap was/is floss, and it was a
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
Andreas Labres wrote:
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance: http://openmaps.eu/ They
seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
I sent their proeminent members (papa71, kepenu, KiVi, peter68,
Trackman and BigMick) a gentle enquiry through their forum's
2010/1/5 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org:
As you can see, osm and omp is created roughly parallel in time, but if
we look back to the root (turistautak.hu) we're older than osm.
And we have different aims as we can see.
- our primary aim is to create maps for portable gps devices. We have
2010/1/5 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com
So I don't have any answer to the question of how to join forces with
openmaps.eu. There's one practical suggestion that I'd like to make:
Unless they remove their NC (Non Commercial Use Only) clause, colloborating
with openmaps.eu is a non
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
While it's a noble pursuit to help a specific demographic I think it's
important not to exclude others in the process, most areas I've lived
in in the last 12 months have no NearMap coverage, there is some
coverage
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:29 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
wrote:
While it's a noble pursuit to help a specific demographic I think it's
important not to exclude others in the process, most areas I've lived
in in the last 12 months
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:34 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
This is a documentation issue, not a viewing issue,
Buh?
the OSM website is
a bit disjointed, once a local entity is sorted out I'm planning to
get a localised a website setup and from there we can start to
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Whatever you like, but I'm not seeing the link. I/you/anyone could fix the
wiki now...why the need for a local entity? Why do you really want to create
a new website?
Because it's easier that trying to spend time/effort getting the main
OSM site
2009/12/17 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org:
On Thursday 17 Dec 2009 1:03:16 pm Andreas Labres wrote:
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance:
http://openmaps.eu/
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
license looks proprietary
From their copyright page:
As our name
Hmm, no one thought of registering Open Maps as a trademark as well as
OpenStreetMap?
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Andreas Labres l...@lab.at wrote:
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance:
http://openmaps.eu/
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
/al
2009/12/17 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
Hmm, no one thought of registering Open Maps as a trademark as well as
OpenStreetMap?
Weren't you the one agreeing with me that the words open and free
have been abused too much and are too ambigious the other day?
Hi,
Steve Bennett wrote:
Hmm, no one thought of registering Open Maps as a trademark as well as
OpenStreetMap?
What makes you think that if OpenStreetMap is a term deemed to general
to work as a trademark, Open Maps would somehow work?
Bye
Frederik
As much as it is disappointing to see others work on a similar/the same
project, I don't think it makes sense for a group of people that have open
in their title to block others from doing something through trademark law.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm, no one thought of registering Open Maps as a trademark as well
as
OpenStreetMap?
What makes you think that if OpenStreetMap is a term deemed to general
to work as a trademark, Open Maps would somehow work?
In any case, we are supposed to be open. Trying to trademark names merely
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
In any case, we are supposed to be open. Trying to trademark names merely
similar to our own is one of the most closed, monopolistic actions that
it's possible to take. The idea of OSM is to collect and make
Andreas Labres wrote:
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance:
http://openmaps.eu/
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
I sent their proeminent members (papa71, kepenu, KiVi, peter68, Trackman
and BigMick) a gentle enquiry through their forum's internal mail
system; that's
Yeah! Maybe we have to increase our efforts to announce that we exist? I
joined OSM in May 2008, but would have done it earlier if I had found
out about it before.
/Erik
Andreas Labres skrev:
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
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I just found their links page (http://openmaps.eu/links) where they link
to OpenStreetMap, so they are at least aware of our project.
/Erik
Erik Lundin skrev:
Yeah! Maybe we have to increase our efforts to announce that we exist? I
joined OSM in May 2008, but would have done it earlier if I
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Erik Lundin e...@lists.lun.nu wrote:
Yeah! Maybe we have to increase our efforts to announce that we exist? I
joined OSM in May 2008, but would have done it earlier if I had found
out about it before.
I would have joined a long time ago if I had known that
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Erik Lundin e...@lists.lun.nu wrote:
Yeah! Maybe we have to increase our efforts to announce that we exist? I
joined OSM in May 2008, but would have done it earlier if I had found
out about it before.
I would
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
since working this out have you tried to improve the documentation
that would have made it easier for you?
I think I made one or two tiny changes. Wasn't game to make any major
changes at that stage, though I have
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
I think I made one or two tiny changes. Wasn't game to make any major
changes at that stage, though I have made suggestions on talk pages. I
really think there needs to be a shift away from talking about GPS'ing to
talking about editing, as the
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance:
http://openmaps.eu/
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
/al
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On Thursday 17 Dec 2009 1:03:16 pm Andreas Labres wrote:
Patrick from talk-at found this by chance:
http://openmaps.eu/
They seem to be reinventing the wheel, somehow...
license looks proprietary
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