[talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Nick Hocking
David wrote Just a quick note that my understanding is those figures are generated based on v1 history, none of the bot edits would have been v1 unless they created a new entity, not just a new/modified tag. David, you may be right although I took Richard's nodes last edited to mean the latest

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: I think the biggest problem people in .au had was that there were some issues which were specific to the Australian usage of OSM (imports of gov data, etc). Those who sought to change the licence claimed to be listening to people, but when Australian mappers raised issues, we

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 Richard Fairhurst
On 11/07/2011 10:13, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 19:04, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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

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] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 11/07/2011 10:52, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 19:29, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. It's not exclusively an .au problem, but it is mostly. If you look at any of the analysis done recently,

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 James Livingston
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 something like render tiles within the .au boundaries from one database,

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

2011-07-11 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 10:04 AM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Murn wrote: I think the biggest problem people in .au had

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: You're both a whole continent and an island. There is therefore no reason why data users can't use FOSM for Australia and OSM for the rest of the world - and even combine the two into one dataset. CC-BY-SA doesn't

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Are you sure? ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent databases ..'. Therefore if you cut out Australia it cant be part of a collective database, because it is not the whole database in an

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:53 AM, 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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: David Groom wrote: Are you sure?  ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent databases ..'. Therefore if you cut out Australia it cant be part

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: David Groom wrote: Are you sure?  ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Groom wrote: Are you sure? ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Groom wrote: Are you

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
Anyway, I think what Richard is trying to say is this: 1) Create osm-without-australia.osm by removing australia from the OSMF database. 2) Create fosm-australia-only.osm by removing everything but australia from the FOSM database (for both of these extracts, use a boundary definition that's PD.

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Which seems to me to that you are agreeing with my point, that these are derivative databases, not collective databases as you first argued. No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective Database or Work. Depends on how you combine them. If you just put the files next to

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective Database or Work.

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Groom wrote: Which seems to me to that you are agreeing with my point, that these are derivative

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways David Groom wrote: But as I said earlier, the ODbL seems quite clear that you cant make a Collective

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Well for a start 4.8 only comes into play when you communicate a derivative database Which you are doing, as part of a Collective Database. Incorporating a Derivative Database into a Collective Database does not absolve you of ODbL's requirements, or remove its freedoms, for

[talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. It's not exclusively an .au problem, but it is mostly. If you look at any of the analysis done recently, Australia simply hasn't taken to ODbL+CT in the way that other countries have.

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. [snip] So, I think, we need to get away from this idea that a fork is a bad thing. It isn't. There are

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/07/11 00:02, Richard Fairhurst wrote: So please, let's stop hitting each other over the head with this. That's a very unAustralian attitude. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

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 Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 00:02, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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,

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 Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 07:54, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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

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 Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 08:16, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 08:16, Richard Fairhurstrich...@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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread David Murn
On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 15:02 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. I guess that depends on your definition of reconciled. It's not exclusively an .au problem, but it is mostly. If you look

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Coast
On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:22 PM, David Murn wrote: I think the biggest problem people in .au had was that there were some issues which were specific to the Australian usage of OSM (imports of gov data, etc). Those who sought to change the licence claimed to be listening to people, but when

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 Steve Coast
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:22 PM, John Smith wrote: You keep making the same mistakes, and of course nothing is being resolved because you stick your head in the sand and try and pretend it will just magically take care of itself, all you are achieving lately is showing how arrogant you can be and

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 Steve Coast
On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:45 PM, John Smith wrote: 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

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread rran...@ihug.com.au
I have only rarely made contributions to this list and never to the legal or LWG lists because I prefer to do things rather than talk about it. I have been contributing to OSM for over 5 years and, last I looked, I was about 800th in number of nodes and ways edited world wide. These

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Sam Couter
Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I didn't, you are correct. I said I would however, if it was an email assuming good faith and free of personal attacks. This is common is western societies. Or at least polite societies :-) Calling people trolls and puppets doesn't demonstrate an

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Dupont
[SNIP] Flames [/SNIP] Hi, Sorry to get involved in this discussion. But it has been filling up my inbox again. Besides all the flames and smoke, what are the real issues here? I think that we dont need to continue this endless discussion. Lets just stop the fighting and do something more

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

[talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread Nick Hocking
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 the figure for Australia improve a lot or only marginally? (Is there

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 David Murn
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 06:53 +0200, Mike Dupont wrote: Besides all the flames and smoke, what are the real issues here? I think that we dont need to continue this endless discussion. Lets just stop the fighting and do something more productive. I think a main issue here, comes down to what

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread David Murn
Hi Nick, Just a quick note that my understanding is those figures are generated based on v1 history, none of the bot edits would have been v1 unless they created a new entity, not just a new/modified tag. David On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 15:09 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Hi Mark, Yes if we

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