[Talk-GB] UK Chapter: Who will be the "we"?

Hi all OK, this a genuine, non rhetorical, non cynical question. I've loosely been following the discussions of setting up a UK:chapter of OSM. After you've decided upon the process you all want to take & when you've started writing documents & sending emails out to the wider world, who

Re: [Talk-GB] Starting now: Next UK group call

Can I ask everyone to place such comments in-line on the AoA document in GoogleDocs. It is far too much work for me to: a) reply to every individual point in each email to list and b) to ever have a hope of knowing if I've addressed issues raised. Many of the points here and discussed by others

Re: [Talk-GB] Starting now: Next UK group call

On 20/03/16 20:27, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote: In the current draft Articles, the directors' post is limited to do things (of classes of things) specifically authorised by resolutions of the members. Limiting the directors power in some way (rather than I need to get the AoA and spend

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

On 20/03/16 19:25, Amaroussi (OpenStreetMap) wrote: The most simplest phrase I can think of that isn’t as flippant as the Thameslink Programme would be “an open-access cartography service”. The service is not the main part of the operation. That is provided by the map database. The

Re: [Talk-GB] Starting now: Next UK group call

On 17 March 2016 at 20:04, Rob Nickerson wrote: > It's 8pm Thursday 17th and the UK group call is just starting. Here are some comments/thoughts from me on what I think were the three main areas of the Articles of Association that were left open after the call.

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

Hi, The most simplest phrase I can think of that isn’t as flippant as the Thameslink Programme would be “an open-access cartography service”. — Amaroussi. > On 20 Mar 2016, at 18:44, Gregory wrote: > > This isn't a description/blurb for the website/marketing. >

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

Hi, On 03/20/2016 06:36 PM, Gregory wrote: > Included in the meeting on Thursday[1] was discussion on the definition > of "OpenStreetMap" in the AoA. It might be interesting to consider - unless you've done that already - that the OSMF itself is *not* limited to supporting OpenStreetMap; in fact

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

This isn't a description/blurb for the website/marketing. This is for the AoA which is a legal document and needs to state what it means when it refers to "OpenStreetMap". Reading the document (or searching it for "OpenStreetMap") will help you understand the relevance. As Jerry said on the call,

Re: [Talk-GB] [UK Chapter] Definition of OSM.

Dang, wrong sender email and wrong destination email again! Maybe try: “A free map service where users don’t need to pay elephant-sized fees to reuse the data.” or “Maps without borders, literally.” —Amaroussi > On 20 Mar 2016, at 17:36, Gregory wrote: > > Hi

[Talk-GB] UK government to spend £5 million rebuilding postcode data it sold off in 2013

Hi all, For info, if you didn't see this news: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/data/budget-2016-government-spend-5-million-rebuilding-data-it-sold-off-in-2013-3636896/ It isn't written if it'll be in continuation of the Open Addresses UK project (https://alpha.openaddressesuk.org/) or not,