Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-26 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:50 AM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Bacolod has good traces uploaded not much, but it seems to show very good coverage at least in the city center. See this image of JOSM: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3324/4623396303_e2f6be5fe6_o.jpg

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-16 Thread Ray
Hi, this topic is discussed every now and then. Facts are free, but you can't use the help of copyright protected material. If you only copy one house/street/whatever maybe that doesn't matter. But what if all of us are doing this? You end up with a 100% copy of the map and than even you will

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-16 Thread Totor
. Cheers, Totor --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Craig  wrote: From: Craig Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem To: Andre Marcelo-Tanner Cc: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 4:09 AM Maybe there is something fundamental that I don't get, but, let me ask a question

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-16 Thread Craig
, 5/16/10, Craig * wrote: From: Craig Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem To: Andre Marcelo-Tanner Cc: talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 4:09 AM Maybe there is something fundamental that I don't get, but, let me ask a question, please. How is it possible

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-16 Thread maning sambale
Many people already argued that copying from aerial imagery is not governed by copyright law. Case law proved it: http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 However, Google terms of use explicitly do not allow this: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/google-mapmaker-and-openstreetmap/ That said,

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-15 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Craig, Good points overall. I agree that some of these copyright scaremongering isn't valid and that possibly in some jurisdictions (probably the US, but not the UK), copying facts from a map image is OK. But for everyone's information, OSM chooses to be on the safe and cautious side. Unless

Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-13 Thread maning sambale
/ --- On Thu, 5/13/10, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: From: maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem To: OSM talk-ph@openstreetmap.org Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010, 8:35 PM http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Maning

[talk-ph] Bacolod is still a big problem

2010-05-07 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I'm still seeing plenty of new editors and high editing activity in the Bacolod area. One example is this subdivision that was drawn in. The roads match the Google satellite imagery but there is no GPX trace to back it up: