Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
Under French law, would it be a violation of that copyright if someone recorded a GPX trace while walking along the signposted route, then mapped that route in OSM using the GPX trace and not using the GR name or shield? Do any of these routes have non-copyrighted local names? On April 4,

Re: [Talk-us] Facts about the world

2015-04-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2015-04-04 16:46 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: Sorry for the late answer, been on the road for two days and now are on a rather flaky network connection. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes#France for a very short synopsis of the GR issue. is this something the

[Talk-us] USA Rail: a progress report

2015-04-07 Thread stevea
I haven't (tediously) added up all the track-miles, but I would estimate that at the Amtrak level, USA Rail is perhaps 75% - 80% complete. However, this optimistic number comes with caveats: 1) While most (26 out of 43) Amtrak routes are complete, for the great majority of these, the