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: [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: [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: [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: [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

[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

[talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
For the longest time it was claimed ODBL would better protect data than CC-by-SA in some jurisdictions, with the US being one of those. However the opposite seems true, since the above claim was based on the premise that creating maps wasn't a creative enterprise. The ODBL doesn't place a limit

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 June 2011 19:32, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Some of these boundaries have been edited to include highway=* and waterway=* tags (mainly in areas with (at the time) no good imagery). How easy is it to get a list of these ways? Now that better imagery is available, now would

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to map data would potentially be pretty trivial. In other words CC-by-SA protects data better than ODBL. ___

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2011 00:55, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely difficult for them to argue that is a produced work and not a database. That's

Re: [talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
What does it matter since I'm never going to agree to the CT... On 20 June 2011 02:11, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: JohnSmith your four changesets today are missing descriptive changeset comments. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JohnSmith/edits The barrier here

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2011 03:12, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: I am sure theortical (and legally risky) loopholes could be found for example as you describe above. We could have contructed painfully A simple admission that the previous email is a valid argument would have sufficed We

Re: [talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2011 14:49, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Maybe Richard should have asked him privately first - I was mainly responding to John's attitude that it didn't matter. Well, what does it matter now that they're going to start deleting non-CT data? Obviously there had to be

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Coast st...@asklater.com Date: 17 June 2011 07:09 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities To: t...@openstreetmap.org Hi I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to get input on what areas you would like

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 June 2011 15:01, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz Date: 15 June 2011 06:30 Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org As per the implementation plan [1],

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the

[talk-au] Free ebooks

2011-06-07 Thread John Smith
Earlier this week 4000 academic books were released for free, apparently there is quite a lot of GIS books in the mix: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slashgeo/~3/j318KMk-yGU/Hundreds-Free-Geospatial-PDF-Books-National-Academies-Press ___ Talk-au

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] Open public sector information principles launched [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-26 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au Date: 26 May 2011 15:26 Subject: [Aust-NZ] Open public sector information principles launched [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: OSGeo NZ/AU aust...@lists.osgeo.org Fyi

[talk-au] Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part

2011-05-26 Thread John Smith
CWmike writes As the 2010 U.S. census results arrived, Los Angeles County's politicians started ramping up for redistricting — the once-a-decade, computing-intensive, often contentious process of geographically carving up the populace into discrete parcels of voters. In the past, such decisions

[talk-au] Kempsey, NSW

2011-05-25 Thread John Smith
There is Bing imagery covering Kempsey, but a distinct lack of mapping, or was before I started adding them, but still plenty to do. I mentioned Tamworth a few weeks ago and within a day or so it had been mapped out extensively from Bing imagery. ___

[talk-au] Rendering your own maps

2011-05-24 Thread John Smith
Over the past few days I've been documenting the exact steps needed to setup, run and maintain your own map rendering system. If the area is small enough you can even do it in a virtual machine, and a vmware image will be published at some point so all you need to do is download, run and tell it

[talk-au] 3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man

2011-05-22 Thread John Smith
An anonymous reader writes So you have a RC model aircraft snapping digital photos from the air, but how do you organize them all? This cheap cloud service from a European research giant will upload your photos and automatically convert them into 3D models you can navigate like a video game. And

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:08, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. Actually gmane.org does a few different options, include a blog like interface... http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.au

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the troll

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own wiki page, which I can no longer edit, after I left a note asking people not to edit my wiki page. What bollocks. I added a notice to the *discussion

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2011 23:12, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 May 2011 14:02, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own wiki page, which I

[talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Thread John Smith
It seems if you are on the wining side of an argument you end up blocked, so I'm most likely going to start an aussie wiki and not care about the official wiki ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Thread John Smith
Sugar coat it all you want, but what action did you take against anyone else involved? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2011 06:38, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Set of rules made by one group, complaints handled by same group, prosecution handled by same group, judgement made by same group, punishment handled by same group. Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were suggesting to those

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping - nearly up-to-date.

2011-05-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 May 2011 01:28, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: These current edits are of value to OSM, newly developed roads in developing suburbs ('some of which already have people living on them'). How can newly developed roads be mapped from Bing?

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-09 Thread John Smith
On 8 May 2011 17:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date Canberra data could have been *extremely*

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping - nearly up-to-date.

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 May 2011 21:41, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: As usual - non trolls are welcome to let me know if I've missed anything (or made some mistakes). So people asking difficult, but honest questions are labelled trolls so you don't have to answer? All this looks like is vandalism

[talk-au] Queensland border and the MacIntyre River...

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
The south bank of the main stream of the Murray River is the NSW/Vic border, but does anyone know where the NSW border lies with respect the MacIntyre River? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Queensland border and the MacIntyre River...

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
On 9 May 2011 13:39, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: I'd say the centre of the main channel as the only sign I've ever seen there is half way across a bridge. The bridge at Texas has the sign on the southern side of the bridge, but the 'Welcome to Qld/NSW' sign is on the northern side.

[talk-au] Tom Tom selling customer data to the police in .au as well

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/08/tom_tom_oz_data_to_cops/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] LINZ survey

2011-05-05 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alister Hood alister.h...@synergine.com Date: 5 May 2011 11:58 Subject: [Aust-NZ] LINZ survey To: OSGeo NZ/AU aust...@lists.osgeo.org, nzopen...@googlegroups.com Hi everyone, First, apologies if you get this twice because you’re on both lists. I

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-05-04 Thread John Smith
It's such a shame that your high regard for diverse opinions only seem to matter if they match yours. On 5/4/11, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 20:40, Tim Challis tim.chal...@gmail.com wrote: Sarcasm aside. I am quite happy to go along with Liz' pronunciations to date.

Re: [talk-au] OSM CTs

2011-05-02 Thread John Smith
On 2 May 2011 22:03, Ian Callahan igcalla...@gmail.com wrote: Those pushing for changes might have expected things to result in a fork as a result of what's happened but that isn't what has happened, instead the OSM community are on the verge of splintering into many various projects

[talk-au] NSW Dept of Lands aerial imagery...

2011-05-01 Thread John Smith
The NSW Dept of Lands seems to have quite a lot of aerial imagery (http://lite.maps.nsw.gov.au/), in their terms of use all copyrightable material is for personal or non-comercial use only, but doesn't seem to cover deriving data from their imagery, and what can be done with it afterwards. Does

Re: [talk-au] Trolls

2011-04-30 Thread John Smith
On 30 April 2011 20:09, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: PS - tomorrow I will find out all the ways in Canberra that I had to fix using nearmap, and replace them using compliant Bing imagery So you wiped out perfectly good map data for sub-standard data?

Re: [talk-au] What to map a site of historical significants...

2011-04-28 Thread John Smith
On 23 April 2011 19:43, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: any one have any thoughts on what to tag a location famous for 2 reasons, first it was a spot cobb co got held up by thunderbolt, secondly because someone did a painting of the event: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailed_Up

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-04-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 April 2011 14:42, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: *sarcasm* But it all doesn't matter anyway, John Smith has degreed that all Australian geodata is PD anyway. See: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2011-April/007829.html A lot of people do take this issue

[talk-au] China now has a hotline to dob in non-licensed mappers...

2011-04-26 Thread John Smith
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/26/china_street_view_licences/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] How many NearMap users do you think have accepted the new CTs and ODbL?

2011-04-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 April 2011 04:15, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: But I thought that Nearmap has said that they did not think the CT's were compatible with the use of their data. As I understood it this had nothing to do with CC-BY-SA or ODbL. So the issue as I understand it is the CT's,

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-04-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 April 2011 07:06, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Bluntly, CC-by-SA for geodata is fine here. It's good enough for our government, it's good enough for us. (Au government now is using CC-by for data). We believe in Share-Alike. Actually, we have been brought up to believe in

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-25 Thread John Smith
In the last few days people have posted numerous diary entries about being unaware about the up coming changes. I am only surprised about how poorly things have been communicated with mappers, the replies to the posts are typical responses that try to confuse the issue.

[talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-24 Thread John Smith
Once upon a time it used to be almost a race to map out new areas from Nearmap coverage, now whole areas of coverage go untouched for months or longer... What was once a source of pride in the community can now only be described as a 'tragedy of the commons' now that the death knell is being

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-24 Thread John Smith
On 25 April 2011 08:26, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: Once fosm gets a tile server (even a third party one) I'll probably switch. In the meantime I thought osm edits were mirrored across to fosm (though the more fosm gets edited, there will be merge edits, which I'm not sure

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-24 Thread John Smith
Same thing in the UK with OS data, it becomes free but requires attribution and OSM-F turns round and says that's great and all, but we want it with no strings now. On 4/25/11, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net

Re: [talk-au] Transponders mistagged

2011-04-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 April 2011 18:35, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been rereading the wiki entry. Is it proposing a structure in which each transponder is first created as a node labeled man_made=communications_transponder each with all their details. Than they are grouped as a

Re: [talk-au] ABS CodePlay

2011-04-16 Thread John Smith
On 16 April 2011 15:56, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:21:59 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: An Australian Bureau of Statistics initiative to help drive collaboration between students, developers and national and international statistical

[talk-au] ABS CodePlay

2011-04-15 Thread John Smith
An Australian Bureau of Statistics initiative to help drive collaboration between students, developers and national and international statistical agencies. http://data.gov.au/2770/contest-abs-codeplay/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-12 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz Date: 13 April 2011 04:56 Subject: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement To: OSM talk t...@openstreetmap.org This is to let you know the license change process is moving to Phase 3 [1] very

Re: [talk-au] OSM maps used on kids tv show...

2011-04-12 Thread John Smith
On 16 August 2010 09:30, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Newish TV show, K-9, which seems to be a kids spin off from the K-9 dog that used to be on Doctor Who a couple of decades ago, in any case a map flashed up and I instantly recognised it as OSM map tiles... You can see

[talk-au] Having accurate maps

2011-04-10 Thread John Smith
I thought I'd share something I realised today when I went out for a Sunday ride. Having accurate maps isn't just good for navigation purposes, but it's almost borders on a safety aspect since knowing how sharp and the location of upcoming bends allows you to be more prepared and at some points

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors

2011-04-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 April 2011 13:45, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Create a new account, accept the CT's and then Has the CTs been updated to allow for this, or do they still refer to a natural person? Also that doesn't help if someone only wishes to support projects using share a like

Re: [talk-au] How to tag reaches (segments of a waterway)?

2011-04-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 April 2011 18:22, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to map some named reaches (straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another;) part of a major river. To do this I would shift the river specific information to a relation, which is useful in any

[talk-au] OSM-F seems to be a sinking ship... (was: Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories)

2011-04-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 April 2011 09:09, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 20:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 16:58, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Despite your attempts to sidetrack this discussion from the your data import to some wider OSM

Re: [talk-au] OSM-F seems to be a sinking ship... (was: Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories)

2011-04-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 April 2011 15:29, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: At the moment I'm tending to fosm.org as it seems the most compatible with what I've been doing. Having said that I'm still watching commonmap.org etc as well. Well from a license point of view, all commonmap data should be usable

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 April 2011 15:57, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 15:34, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Please list sources for this comment, because as far as I understand it there is no further appeals on the matter currently pending. http://www.smh.com.au/business

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 April 2011 16:58, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: John - if you are going to argue this, please check your references more carefully. As I stated before I wasn't aware that the appeal was being appealed, although your link does suggest they had 30 days to do something, and were

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 April 2011 20:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 April 2011 16:58, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Despite your attempts to sidetrack this discussion from the your data import to some wider OSM licencing issue, I won't be sidetracked here. The problem is no one

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