Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyprotection for OSM based material
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: 3. CC-BY-SA indeed does not require that you publish the useful source data. (ODbL does.) I honestly doubt that ODbL will achieve this. For example, if someone decides to use some convoluted tagging system without publishing a specification, his data will mean very little to the community. I will go even further and say this is already happening by people who have already agreed to the ODbL. (Should I point out the examples that I know of ?) ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Barriers of Entry
Barriers to entry are good when they prevent us from doing some thing bad. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, there are many different types of barriers. There are of course those we tag with barrier, the physical ones. They are used to keep unwanted, unauthorized or unsuitable people or vehicles out. Congestion e.g. blocking walkways or cycleways is bad. Pollution is bad. There are barriers of entry in the form of entrance exams at places like universities, with the aim of assessing the likelihood of someone succeeding in their studies. Students keeping the professors busy with the school curriculum is bad. Students dropping out with large amounts of debt is bad. And of course there are job interviews, where employers sometimes raise the barrier of entry so high that only one in 1000 can pass. Paying someone more than they are producing is bad. Firing someone is often expensive and disruptive. In OpenStreetMap, people sometimes point to our barriers of entry and blindly claim that they must be bad for us. The main page not welcoming enough, the editor too difficult, the path to signup too cumbersome, and on and on. If a newbie tries to change something and makes a mess (1), it's only a bad thing if it's difficult to spot the mistake(2) and revert it (3). The only important thing is that (2) and (3) must be much easier than (1). We don't need barriers to entry. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-Talk-ZA] September Gauteng meetup
Hello, I'm holding a meetup in Centurion in September: Place: Butcher Brothers, Centurion Lake It's a 1km walk from the Gautrain Station. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-25.855983mlon=28.187862zoom=18layers=M Time Date: The first person to confirm can pick a date. The date must be before the 23rd. Duration: +- 1 hour Topic: Anything related to OSM: Basic editing, Android Apps etc. * For the first 3 people to confirm: The burgers and chips are on me. (I have some Groupons) These are really nice burgers. Just pay for your own drinks. * I'll provide an open Wi-Fi hotspot. Regards, Nic ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: And as for the OSMF, I cite www.osmfoundation.org with The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization supporting, but not controlling, the OpenStreetMap Project. It is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free geospatial data and to providing geospatial data for anyone to use and share. That statement tell us how they would like it to work. In reality, they control the project: 1. The license 2. The lists, e.g. moderation on talk-au 3. The domains 4. SoTM and 5. The servers And I don't think it's a bad thing, as long as the community is properly represented on the board. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: On 12.08.2011 11:46, Florian Lohoff wrote: Up to now the pre-CT mappers have not even asked if a license change should happen at all, and WHICH license be switched to. May I remind you a litte bit on the history of the licence change... (all as far as I know) While the first SOTM at Manchester (July 2007) there was a pannel about the license. BTW: So, did the panel ASK the individuals attending what license they want ? The licence working group was founded 2008, everybody was invited to join. I didn't receive an invitation. If the OSMF wanted to hear all the different opinions on the license, they would not have formed the LWG, because legal-talk is a reasonable aggregation point for that. Actually we were asked to move some discussion from legal-talk to legal-general. So it's pretty clear that the issue was not going to be resolved through 'talk'ing or meetings. Next you are going to point me to the Pieren poll. The first problem there is that people who want PD cannot be assumed to be supporters. But, more importantly, only people subscribed to certain mailing lists knew of that poll. The question is pretty simple: Ask every active mapper (including those who have not accepted the CTs) if they think the benefits of the new license will outweigh the costs. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] alternative to navit on windows CE
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Tanveer Singh tanveer1...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking at an OSM routing application(offline routing) like navit. Tried navit, but its not stable, does not even start on my windows CE device, and support forum is inactive. I was wondering if there are other apps which can do offline navigation with OSM data just like navit claims to do? MY PND is Windows CE 5.0 device(Mio C320) and I can run moving map apps like oziexplorer just fine. You could try gosmore. I used it on my 4.2 device for over a year and then used it on my Mio for another year. The easiest is to get a osm.bz2 file of no more than 50 MB, drag and drop it onto the Windows binary (or follow the rebuild instructions under Linux). Then unzip the WinCE package to an SD card and add the compiled map (gosmore.pak) to the same directory. Having said that, Android devices cost the same, is much more capable (compass, accelerometers, onscreen keyboard, multitasking) and is easier to program and debug. So the WinCE port is deprecated. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:50 AM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: PD data does not need a complicated and binding CT as the current one. True. But PD is forward compatible with the CTs. For example, we did not need to ask the upstream authors of TIGER to accept the CTs. PD is not backward compatible with the CTs. But that's a complicated subject that was discussed many times and I'd rather avoid it. And the current situation is not possible to contribute PD data at all. So the situation would have been much improved if there were a sign up as PD user with a very simple PD-CT. Gert -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Verzonden: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:15 AM Aan: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back Hi, On 08/10/11 08:38, Stephan Knauss wrote: You're wrong with this. At least in the country I'm most active the transition to ODbL ready data is making huge progress. And it's not someone else's benefit, but a benefit for the whole community. I, too, am positively surprised by the speed and diligence with which mappers all over the place are working towards getting ready for the big switch. Most had held back initially to give people a chance to reconsider, but now things are really moving, and with a very positive attitude at that - it's not grumble grumble grumble why do we have to do this but we're doing our part to put OSM on a solid legal footing, cleaning up behind those whom we couldn't persuade. For this, it is obviously very important *not* to allow any further CC-BY-SA contributions as those would give people a sense of fighting against windmills. Everyone is working to bring the amount of non-relicensable contributions down to zero; adding more non-relicensable contributions would not only pull the rope in the other direction, it would also ruin the spirits of everyone working to fix things. Bye Frederik ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Guess what - I dont trust the OSMF - In the past the OSMF has decided +1 But when you contribute under an open license, you must make peace that some downstream users will use it in some unintended ways. For example the spirit of the GPL2 being circumvented by bootloaders checking digital signatures, or online service providers not sharing the improvements they made to the Linux kernel. to relicense, decided to use the ODBL and decided upon the CT. In no way the contributers have been asked - the people who actually did the work. So why should i grant special rights to the OSMF via the CT? A good point about the CC-BY-SA, CC0, PD, GPL or BSD is that everybody gets the same rights. Not so with the current relicensing. With stating that my contributions are PD/CC0 i grant everybody the same rights. The OSMF has stated that they going to delete my contributions as i refused to grant special rights to the OSMF. Does this only sound suspicious for me? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBTkLVEpDdQSDLCfIvAQivpA/7BIv6SrfMU1yO3lse+QTNFiwYDdfjVjsu FNWkuaf6PjUynpfAdwZVpMFRY5oR9o5fuuvGGu++2mdyzAHGgdIlLQ19zvSKWMYL jeouXSQqSmu4wETNw4GsbBuHQruZ7VsUSqvBbyT0RMaActbaJ864feNQRvzywHT0 4DX8/ozw2ypLwWEuf/TMKOHTf0Zlsab+jm9MZxGD/S7TBw+uJ78z9PIEWinw2/ov yoPnvflJA2rL4LE7UujfxilHOtbkaq3Ec9atOZ411J2tZB5e2Ozjx6MC8H2TDwEI qinU5FzgigCNwic5sGVGdtXYMll5zJx/Tr5Tix02JkCbMTsAJGa2+Ar+/E9kM9QB 7bbyewkOtWND8KI1z7QecVaSKP0q5x4zo5tjXfbZtXpBwY4K116rBcoa4oVCCIwc kxSEsM0ZMmFD878gh/LffoM/25IQTofvxXWIQM2w9xN1ChD8Ay2zZd+KXaDIXLBW s6dEM0jvYUuG6gMtCjpoRfzXWoke6k2Mf+M5eqobVf4CC4/4SvhJ+MhHzyAxIVsF ZyckKJhIjN4w7RTscb0DvwJ10qpA0vzcYo2/75tWHHYuUfplssB5yllpXxSdR9mj r2+JmkCUti4V+ZhJ3LsCAVmolBVXsuGl1ZnRPax9kHDlAiNujZrP3iv+5WAUHZRP LjFobQmFn7Q= =cc7h -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:53 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: OSM is still CC-BY-SA and it seems that that won’t change soon. ** Gert, if you are so sure of that, open a new account and use that instead. At the very least you will still be contributing to osm and any forks that may occur. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 08:03:16PM +0200, Nic Roets wrote: Gert, if you are so sure of that, open a new account and use that instead. At the very least you will still be contributing to osm and any forks that may occur. He said he would not accept the CT so he is now officially excluded from contributing to OSM - As am i ... OSM or better the OSMF decided to exspell all former contributers from further contributing. The precise statement of that will be interesting. What if you personally accept the CTs but imported CC-BY-SA material in your old account ? As a lot of contributers fear the loss of data my guess is that the OSMF will delay the deletion of data and final switch to ODBL ad infinitum, until all data has been white washed through later modifications. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Richard is a calm, thoughtful, intelligent guy who listens to people and tries to create a fun, global, human environment for our project. +1 Steve has made one post making a considered overview of an ugly situation and inviting discussion ... a proper course of action for the founder of our project to take. Michael, If you carefully read Steve's post, you will see that some people may find it insulting. For example he is belittling Etienne's efforts. He expresses a dislike of pseudonyms which may bring into question his motivation(s) for resetting the list. I personally hope you (David) will also calm down, withdraw unwarranted personal insults and consider apologising. +1 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb and Arab Countries, and the License discussion inside OSM. In this mailing lists it doesn't matter if a position is backed by one or ten thousand people, one persons email message weight the same as fifty thousand people shouting at Tahrir Square, even if that message has more in common with one crazy guy screaming about conspiracy theories outside ground zero. Basically all you are saying is that mailing lists are a bad way to measure support. And I agree 100%. Can you can prove that the average contributor thinks that the average contributor thinks that the benefits* of the ODbL exceeds the cost of implementing it** ? Then I will personally start telling people that they are in the minority and should go away. *: Looking at whitehouse.gov, the software on my phone etc, I can't see a single thing that will change (either positive or negative). **: To implement it, we will have to delete some data. We are bothering people by sending them email and if they do not respond, we use facebook etc. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Uh huh. So I suppose if there were a successful plebiscite in a country wanting to change their form of government from presidential to parliamentary (or vice versa) then that's a rotten thing unless the winning side leaves the territory to the losing side and create a new country with a new name? I don't think Gert should have used the word 'hijack'. But I also don't know why you three compare the license change to ordinary democratic processes. It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: People opposed to the license change have been voicing their discontent for 2 years now. And Steve and some other directors keep responding to it. So the basis for the discontent must have merit. And it's clogging up our main communications channel (talk). A modern democratic government would have found a way to defuse the situation long ago. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: ... and hope that we have enough time to do this before any purging of data begins! Jaakko, I really want to know when that will occur (purging without resurveying within a reasonable time frame). The LWG said that is a community decision. I assume that that implies that the Haiti community (you and your collaborators) can decide by themselves how to proceed. Some cities or regions may never see the need to delete non-compliant data. What will then happen ? The only way I can see that the global community can make a decision for a local city or region in an orderly fashion is by a global vote. The whole process could take years. Regards, Nic ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !
Hello Russ, It is very seldom that a democracy will make the best decisions. Winston Churchill said The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. But democracy has real motivational benefits in an information society. In our case, users will be more motivated to keep on maintaining their contributions. Regards, Nic On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Replying to myself ... I know ... But I was thinking while I was out mowing the lawn. It's NOT necessary for OSM or the OSMF to be a democracy. It's simply necessary to provide an environment where people can contribute to the map and share their contributions with other people. If accomplishing this means sometimes dragging people kicking and screaming, then that's what it means. But don't call it a democracy and don't call seeking accommodation voting or if a majority of accommodation is achieved, call it approval. -russ Russ Nelson writes: Dermot McNally writes: In a democracy, a majority decides which way a decision should fall. It's still not a democracy. In our vote It's still not a vote, and calling it a vote instead of a vote doesn't help matters. Not my intention - everybody is free to explain what they meant by yes. My point is, if enough people say yes, it's fair to take them at their word and to proceed with the licence change. It's still not a vote, and you can't claim support for the process. If you want to look at the poll numbers, only 20% are actually in favor of the license change -- the other 80% are either indifferent or actively hostile. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote: Outcome: 75% would accept the new license, 11% undecided, 14% not (at that time) There has been similar polls by the community during that time with similar results. Both (the vote and the poll) show a large majority in favor of the proposed change. Again: ODbL combined with CT. Hello Henk, The process has always been described as consisting of at least 2 phases: 1. Asking contributors to relicense and 2. Using the new license, which entails deleting stuff. The vote by OSMF members was to allow the directors to use their discretion in these two phases. The poll only concerned the first phase. It does not tell us if a large majority (was) in favor of the proposed change. To do that you need another poll: Will the benefits of the ODbL license outweigh the deletion of the data ?. Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF ! + PD / CC0 projects
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote: On 11/06/2011 10:02 AM, Nic Roets wrote: Not at all - I know of no form of democracy that distinguishes between grudging acceptance or evangelical zeal. Dermot, I would quite like to take my data and start my own PD / CC0 project. Nic, Before you go doing that, please consider the fine choices already in play. I have. But if you read my complete email you will see that I don't care too much which open source license is being used. I'm much more worried about the effects of a fork. If we spend time updating a number of forks, it will detract from time that we could have spent mapping. It's much better if we a democratic process and settle the license one and for all. If joining the OSMF is a requirement to vote, then so be it. It's only 25 bucks. Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF ! + PD / CC0 projects
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: The code is the law, http://www.lessig.org/content/standard/0,1902,4165,00.html and we need to change the code so that these discussions about licensing and all that are less important. If it was easy, someone would have done it already. Think of how much trouble we already have with once-off imports (Canvec, TIGER, etc). What will happen if the upstream source is dynamic or hostile ? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Ben Laenen benlae...@gmail.com wrote: The OpenStreetMap Foundation is an international not-for-profit organization supporting, but not controlling, the OpenStreetMap Project. This statement is really wishful thinking on the part of the OSMF. By virtue of the domain name and the trademarks owned by it, the organization do have an extraordinary amount of control over the project. Many people accepted the CTs giving the organization even more control. Look what is happening with the openoffice.org domain. Even when LibreOffice was/is clearly a superior product, openoffice.org still had a tremendous amount of hits and downloads. Another way to interpret the quoted statement is to say that the OSMF will only make changes when there is overwhelming support from the community. This has a number of problems: 1. Deciding not to change something is also a decision. 2. How do they know that there is overwhelming support from the community ? (I don't believe the license change passed this test) and 3. And waiting for the community to get 100% behind a change can take a very long time. If we want to compete with Google Map Maker, we may need to act much faster. In the short term people should either become OSMF members or live with the consequences. In the long term, we could adopt a process where voting does not cost anything. (For example, I recently received a couple of messages from Wikimedia saying that my small number of edits made me eligible to vote in their election). Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !
Not at all - I know of no form of democracy that distinguishes between grudging acceptance or evangelical zeal. Dermot, I would quite like to take my data and start my own PD / CC0 project. So by simply matching my new license to the conditions set by the OSMF, I would be voting yes in your referendum. In this referendum, the OSMF substantially influenced the outcome by declaring beforehand We are changing the license. They refused to register new users who do not vote yes. The emails that was sent out only listed the advantages of the license change. Go and look how an electoral commission operates. Something as simple as the order in which the candidates appear on the ballot can be seen as unfair. -- I am not saying OSMF acted illegally or that the license change is a bad thing. I am merely saying that the OSMF decided on the license change before there was overwhelming support for it from the community. The license change was not driven by the community. It was driven by a few individuals. How else can you explain the dismally low voter turn out when the OSMF members voted on it ? Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Unlicensed use of the logo in iPhone app?
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Because trademark law is a different and parallel universe to copyright law. I am not a lawyer, but I'll explain it a little bit. Trademark law only restricts what you can do to sell your product or otherwise attract attention. So for example, a logo that appears inside a manual of a commercial product will rarely be restricted by trademark law. I don't know, but I don't think we particularly want to restrict use in the strict sense. I think the matter is rather complicated. I assume your aim is that OSM will become a source of information that is trusted by a large section of the population within a decade. In 2020 every app developer may want to use the trademark to sell his app. So choosing a good policy now can prevent legal hassles later. Wikipedia is already dealing with these issues, so I copied the most important paragraph from their policy document. The Wikimedia Foundation's trademark policy attempts to balance two competing interests. The first interest is the Foundation's need to ensure that the Wikimedia Marks remain reliable indicators of free content (as Richard Stallman has said, Think free as in free speech, not free beer) and source/origin. The second interest is the Wikimedia Foundation's desire to permit community members, chapters, and others with whom the Foundation works to discuss Foundation projects and to accurately describe or communicate their association with us. I think we should also see our trademarks as an indicator of free content. So any product that overlays non free content onto the map should be disallowed from using our trademarks. That should exclude most ad supported products (as ads are typically non free), but we should also consider explicitly disallowing ads. Trademark law is designed to do exactly what people here have mentioned and not let someone use our logo to confuse the public by, say, slapping it on a google maps app. So it's there if we want to use that power. Steve On 5/16/2011 12:40 PM, Josh Doe wrote: Can someone explain to me how OSMF can restrict usage of the logo if it's CC-BY-SA? Or rather, if the original logo had a more restrictive license (and copyright was owned by OSMF), and this logo is clearly a derivative work, then this new logo can't be CC-BY-SA, can it? -Josh On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:28 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/5/16 Grant Slateropenstreet...@firefishy.com: On 16 May 2011 14:54, M∡rtin Koppenhoeferdieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an informal policy? If I am displaying an OSM based map, am I generally entitled/allowed to use the logo (OSM inside) in my application / on my website? Sounds ok to me, you are promoting OpenStreetMap. What would not be cool is claiming (or misleading) that your app/website/etc _IS_ OpenStreetMap or endorsed by OpenStreetMap. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and I do no represent OSMF. Yes, also to me it feels OK, but I think the best would be to get an official statement from OSMF when and how the logo can be used, because I think that it is good to encourage the use of the logo, but commercial users would not risk to use the logo if there is no formal permit to do so. cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Speeds in OSM
Hello Renier, I believe there is a rather complicated proposal on the OSM wiki. It tries to model the European situation were streets inside cities have very low speed limits. Personally I think this proposal is much too difficult to implement and I would rather see global defaults for each highway type. I can think of at least 2 applications for accurate speed limit data in OSM: (1) warning driver when he is breaking the law and (2) estimating average speed so that faster and more economical routes can be calculated. The default average speed for my Gosmore router can be found here: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/export/25985/applications/rendering/gosmore/elemstyles.xml So to answer you: If you are curious about speed limits or you want the best possible routing, then go ahead an collect it. Personally I'm much more focused on street names, points of interest and house names. Regards, Nic On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Renier Marx re...@algoabus.co.za wrote: Hi I have been editing in OSM and have noticed that every Street or Freeway I come across in the Port Elizabeth area has no speed limit in. Is there a default speed that OSM accept if no speed limit has been set for Freeway6s and in City/Town or do al of them needs to be set? Hoping to hear from you soon. Renier Marx Route Controller PH: 041 - 404 1318 FAX: 041 - 453 7437 E-MAIL: re...@algoabus.co.za __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6117 (20110512) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Lambertus o...@na1400.info wrote: On 06-05-11 02:09, Grant Slater wrote: And routing on osm.org? / Grant Would be awesome and is already possible for a while. See: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/ (select the 'routing' layer). This one seems much faster, though with fewer options. http://routingdemo.geofabrik.de/ Richard, I'm not sure when you last tried it. I now have a server that keeps the complete planet in RAM, making it considerably faster. In fact, someone who recently compared the two said it was faster than the geofabrik demo. The reason for this may be due to differences in Javascript, network latencies, density of the map where the test is being performed etc. Perhaps the UI and options of the first can be improved with the speed and routing engine of the second? There are two more things to consider: Update frequency and support for a variety of tags. ... evaluate ... the resources / server it will require. Then acquire the hardware. AFAIK, whenever this topic was discussed by the sysadmins, it did not end in any real conclusion. (A number of other websites found that it's better to Just do it) I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for hosting on Amazon during a trial period. That will give us the ability to scale infinitely. It will also give us time to find the most appropriate hardware and raise the necessary donations. So the only remaining issue is for the sysadmins to apply, test and deploy the patch they received. Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] FAQs from help.osm.org
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 06/05/11 19:31, Nic Roets wrote: I really want to avoid the delays that another round of discussion and eventual hardware purchases will bring. So I'm willing to pay for hosting on Amazon during a trial period. That will give us the ability to scale infinitely. It will also give us time to find the most appropriate hardware and raise the necessary donations. Have you asked the sysadmins if they would consider such a solution acceptable? I would certainly be against it. Actually I did ask Grant. He indicated that he had no problem with other than it being expensive. But I still want to know the answer to Lambertus' question. So the only remaining issue is for the sysadmins to apply, test and deploy the patch they received. To the best of my knowledge the sysadmins have never received any such patch. Indeed as far as I know it doesn't exist. I was referring to the patch that Frederik sent you on 7 March 2011. I originally understood that what you had on dev was a properly integrated solution but I now understand that it is in fact just static HTML and JS code that has been bolted on the side of the rails code. I got the static Html working inside a rails 'erb'. http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/rails Not going through a rails controller has a couple of benefits: Firstly, browsers parse jsonp code much faster than XML. Secondly it allows the routing server, nominatim (and the tile server) to all be hosted on different servers. If I'm wrong then please correct me and send me the patch to review. The problem is that you are making so many changes to the rails port, it's like trying to shoot a bullet with a smaller bullet. While some of your changes were important, many are IMHO not nearly important as getting routing going. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I dispute point 1, if anything the project is German-centric if you look at the depth and quantity of data? Steve, he was talking about language, not geographical dominance. You can't argue that English is dominant. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: ... one of the best open source projects. I rejected the CTs because I felt the OSMF* was out of touch with the community. Your statement just reaffirms that. *: I make no distinction between the board and the people they appoint e.g. the sysadmins. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)
I think OSM can be great, but it still has a very long way to go. Let's look at some of the best open source projects: 1. Linux: Dominates the server market and will soon dominate the smartphone market. 2. Apache: Dominates web servers. 3. Firefox: For a very long time they were miles ahead of their closed source competitor (IE). On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Oh and I missed the second half - what makes you think we appointed the sysadmins? Perhaps you have not appointed them explicitly, but control the domain name and the servers on your behalf. So they are acting as your agents. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] When advertising is good
One or two people on the list said that they avoid advertising where ever they can. I know advertising can be annoying when the same add appears 10 times in a row, but I just want to explain a few things. Let's look at the example of a restaurant that is working below capacity. It can be because they recently opened. It can be because they are not located on a busy corner. So they have waiters and chefs not working at peak productivity. They have freshly prepared food going to waste. This is a problem that on demand location based advertising can solve, provided people are willing to accept it in their lives: The restaurant gets more patrons. Those patrons no longer go to other restaurants. The other restaurants are now able to serve the remaining patrons faster. And the same argument does for most retail and service business. The great thing about OSM is that we are driving the cost of maps to $0. If media corporation have annoying ads, people will simply switch. The media corporation and the advertiser (the restaurant) will now need to work together to give you the maps at a cost below 0. My guess is that it will be in the form of coupons or other specials. If you order the OSM special, you get a free softdrink with your burger. So next time you want to embed maknik in website, consider the advantages of embedding MapQuest instead. (And no, I do not have affiliation with MapQuest or any media company). ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki
Elizabeth, I don't see David's comments as constructive. Terms like consulting the community is quite vague and Steve has said that many of his prior efforts to consult the community end in flame wars. Now let me give it a try: I think the OSMF should make (more) use of polling. Not for everything. But once or twice a year would be a nice way to involve the community. Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: There is hardly any part of OSM that is not open for you to participate; Note that open IRC is the Internet equivalent to the town hall meetings. In some instances they work well. But it is remarkably easy for one grouping to impose their will on the community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_hall_meeting OSMville is already the size of a small city and many of us do not have English as a first language. Town hall meetings cannot be the only way to involve the community. Regards, Nic On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:33:42 -0700 (PDT) Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: This has not been constructive in the slightest. Inflammatory and untrue. I don't have time for this. Most of us don't. You're making a mockery of the hard work that's gone into this project. Stop. Just stop. let me rewrite the piece from David Murn a big part of the discussion is the way that we as a community are treated. If SWG and OSMF feel they have the power to do what they want without consulting the community, then those handful of mappers should be the ones mapping and not be using the efforts of the community they refuse to consult with. Maybe SWG needs to comprehend what the O in OSM means, it doesnt mean you make major decisions behind closed doors, document them with a 3 word note in the minutes and refuse to discuss with the community because it might cause a big discussion, even aware that once the community becomes aware of their change, a big discussion will ensue anyway. This is constructive. It is hard hitting and direct. Sometimes medicine is bitter. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] question for folks working on routing engines
Hello Richard, Gosmore looks at maxspeed and tracktype. I did not use surface, because I am under the impression that it is possible to drive fast on properly maintained dirt roads in dryer regions. Regards, Nic On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: this occurred to me while surveying speed limits in a somewhat rural part of the US. are any of the routing engines looking at the surface tag as part of their decision making? i ask this because in NY, the default speed limit in rural areas is 55 on all roads. there are numerous unpaved roads (dirt, gravel) which do not have posted speed limits, but where driving at 55 is not reasonable unless you're a rally driver and the road is closed. i want to tag these accurately, and am doing so, but i should think that the routing engines ought to avoid, when possible, this combination or others like it: highway=unclassified name=Mead Road maxspeed=55 mph surface=dirt richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities
Let's not loose sight of a few facts / trends w.r.t. sub Saharan Africa: 1. The continent is not experiencing the same demographic dividend as other emerging economies. Birthrates will remain high for at least another 50 years. AIDS is decimating the economically active population. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe 2. African governments are simply not building the required infrastructure. 3. The mobile phone has increase productivity in Africa more than all previous inventions combined. Farmers no longer need to make slow and expensive journeys to find out what price the market will pay for their crops. Migrant workers can send money to their families over long distances. 4. A dismally small percentage of Africans can read maps. But augmented reality-type applications will completely change that. 5. OSM is simply not successful enough in Africa to cover the tremendous opportunities presented in points 3 and 4. Lack of cheap Internet access on the African continent should take most of the blame. But it doesn't help that so many OSM apps are not available in Africa (Skobbler, ORS, OSM-3D etc). So I'm really glad about Google's efforts. -- Note that if you use Google to search for Mapping party, the top hit is the the OSM wiki. So it's public knowledge that we invented and perfected the concept. Regards, Nic On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635 == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] April fools that should have been
Steve and Hurricane announce the birth of their daughter Ivory. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: * Replace OSM front page with google maps * HOT announce zombie apocalypse response team * OSM made official royal wedding map Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)
One more argument in Pieren's favour: OSM is not for profit. On Slashdot a court case was recently mentioned where the judge ruled in favour of a non profit who copied a complete article from a copyrighted journal. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Pieren wrote: Anyone round here ever seen the film 'Groundhog Day'? If you mean it's a desperate fud which will never end, I understand. Yes. If we separate the horrid neologism into its three component parts - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt - then I'm entirely with you on that. We are Uncertain as to what exactly copyright law and Google's (IMO deliberately[1]) ambiguous terms allow. We are Doubtful at what point Google would start suing people. We are Fearful that the world's biggest technology company Richard, would you be any less fearful if it turns out that Google is in fact 4th by market cap and is quite far from the the largest by revenue ? http://www.google.com/finance?q=apple http://www.google.com/finance?q=microsoft http://www.google.com/finance?q=ibm http://www.google.com/finance?q=google could, with one carefully publicised nastygram, undermine the promise at the heart of OSM - you can rely that this data is legally safe to use. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. That's exactly why we don't do it. If you are a world-beating copyright, database rights and contract lawyer with a billion-pound fortune you don't mind pissing away, then maybe you can elevate the debate beyond that. But I doubt it (not least because it's pretty clear there's no such thing as a world-beating database rights lawyer). Come on, Pieren, you are smart enough to know all this. IIRC you were among the first to comment on my long Bauman vs Fussell posting way back when, which was pretty much the same issue. We know the parameters of the debate: all we can do is rattle around inside them, Groundhog Day-style. cheers Richard [1] I actually think Google is being depressingly smart on this. They purposefully don't elucidate what you can and can't do. On the one hand, they want people to build geo apps and create indexable geodata on the Google Maps platform - even though some of this might well infringe their data/imagery suppliers' copyright. On the other, they don't want anyone - like OSM - to leverage their data to build their own platform. So they just say nothing. It's best for their business that way. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Okay-this-is-just-cool-Lockport-NY-tp6225128p6228293.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:07 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 April 2011 00:59, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: One more argument in Pieren's favour: OSM is not for profit. On Slashdot a court case was recently mentioned where the judge ruled in favour of a non profit who copied a complete article from a copyrighted journal. Right, but I think we can stop discussing copyright as in this case Google is using their Terms of Use which is more like contract than copyright license. Do you honestly think Google will risk taking legal action on the basis that it's a contract ? Suppose it turns out that person A asks person B for the name of a certain street. Person B obtains the Street View image with his phone and shows it to A. A is either not aware that it's a streetview image or perhaps does not even know what Street View is. So Google can only sue B for breach of contract. They can't compel OSM to delete the data. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Bloemfontein tracing
A quick look with JOSM reveals that Bing seems to be perfectly aligned to the uploaded traces. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:54 PM, yme...@gmail.com wrote: Nic, Is there a known shift that should be applied to the bing imagery for Bloem? Regards, Paul On 29 March 2011 19:04, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: I'm glad so many old faces showed up for the meetup on Saturday. One of the topics was the need to trace Bloemfontein. Rickus made a good start, but there is still quite a lot that can be done. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-29.1056lon=26.2079zoom=13layers=M Regards, Nic ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] Examples of OSM used in Transport Planning?
Hello Mikel, Most of your examples concerns the day to day planning done by individuals. But my guess is that the conference concerns long term planning by authorities, esp. infrastructure. There is an open source software package called MATSIM that predicts congestion and traveling times. AFAIK, it can combine digital maps (OSM), public transport data, population data and landuse data. Then it can simulate millions? of commuters each of them optimizing their traveling patterns. Although European universities are driving the RD, it is also being used in South Africa. I met a couple of times with Professor Johan Joubert who is driving the research here. Although OSM is not yet at the same quality as commercial maps, it fits his requirements better (easy integration, flexibility etc). In fact, he and his students have done a significant amount of tracing of the low income and informal settlements. They are also busy adding lanes tags to make the simulations more realistic. So they are using the Bing aerial extensively. Here in the Gauteng province, a a number of large transport projects are nearing completion (the Gautrain rapid rail link, the motorway improvement project and subsequent tolling and the Bus Rapid Transport service (BRT)). His work is being used to predict the effect they will have on economic growth. Regards, Nic On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi The World Bank is holding a conference this Wednesday on Transport Planning Applications, and I've been asked to give a talk on applications of OSM in transport. Off the top of my head, I think of ITO's work, London Tube Travel Time, UK Rail OSM seat back maps, Portland Oregon's transport work (they'll be there), India railways maps. Just a few... What are some of the best example applications of OSM in transport? Thanks Mikel == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] City with completed housenumbering?
Hello Matthias, I'm working quite hard on the house numbers of Pretoria (South Africa). I guess I collect a similar number of houses (around 22,000 numbers) since starting 2 months ago. But I admit my quality will be much lower. I just visit the 2 endpoints of each street and then use addr:interpolation. Quite often I use 'even' or 'odd' interpolation when the numbers increase 4 between properties. Another disadvantage of my approach is not splitting the interpolation way where it crosses another street. The drawback will be that OSM based SatNavs may get the last turn wrong (e.g. Turn left and stop instead of Turn right). 2011/3/23 Matthias Meißer dig...@arcor.de: Hi all, the mappers of the city of Rostock (Germany) is going to complete all house numbers of the town. I never heard that a city in OSM in that size (250.000 inhabitants, 22.000 numbers) had been completely mapped. I know the number import of Denmark, so they have 100% complete, but we asking ourself, if there is another bigger city that had manually been mapped all housenumbers? cu Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-Talk-ZA] OSM Meeting 26 March ?
Hello Everyone, I'm going to tentatively set the details. Feel free change anything. Just don't take too long because I want to send invitations to other groups and lists. Date: Saturday, 26 March 2011 Time: 10am to 4pm for me (Nic). Everyone else is free to come and go at any time. Venue: Karoo Cattle and Land at the Irene Mall. I only suggest it because I know it worked well for the Ubuntu release parties. Any other suggestions welcome, even in Midrand or Johannesburg. Without routing: http://osm.org/go/k2UHaKxav-- With routing: http://goo.gl/8fCO7 Contact number: 083-765-9503 Internet: I (Nic) will set up an uncapped hotspot named openstreetmap. Who should come: 1. Anyone who is interested in maps. I will show you how to edit OpenStreetMap, put it on your website / GPS / phone. 2. Anyone who is interested in augmented reality. I will show you Layar, Sky Map and a few other things. 3. Anyone contemplating buying a GPS or smartphone. I may end up saving you a few bucks. 4. Anyone who thinks Android is about more than gaming or rooting. Johan, thanks for your offer. But I think holding it at a restaurant is a bit easier with people coming and going. Regards, Nic On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Johan Joubert johan.joub...@up.ac.za wrote: Nick, I would be interested to join a meeting on Android phones. Won't be much of a contributor in development, but we sure can use the technology to ease data capturing and cleaning. If we get a group together, I can offer a venue at the University of Pretoria to meet. Best, Johan talk-za-requ...@openstreetmap.org 03/03/11 2:01 PM Send Talk-ZA mailing list submissions to talk-za@openstreetmap.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-za-requ...@openstreetmap.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-za-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-ZA digest... Today's Topics: 1. Local meetups in Africa (Matthias Mei?er) 2. Re: Local meetups in Africa (Nic Roets) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:49:25 +0100 From: Matthias Mei?er dig...@arcor.de To: talk-za@openstreetmap.org talk-za@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Local meetups in Africa Message-ID: 4d6e7515.6090...@arcor.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Hi OSM community of Africa, Sorry that I post in English but I can't write I your language :/ I guess some of you might notice that I created a map of local user groups http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de using a bot crawling templates out of the wikipages http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group I already tried to get in contact for the most nations but there seem to be no local group that meets regular in Africa, or? regards Matthias -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 19:46:24 +0200 From: Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com To: Matthias Mei?er dig...@arcor.de,Openstreetmap ZA talk-za@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Local meetups in Africa Message-ID: AANLkTi=fP0x-rS=Z7Rvy7ZCX5qWWQfa=ud4zglyfm...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 2011/3/2 Matthias Mei?er dig...@arcor.de: Hi OSM community of Africa, Sorry that I post in English but I can't write I your language :/ I guess some of you might notice that I created a map of local user groups http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de using a bot crawling templates out of the wikipages http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group I already tried to get in contact for the most nations but there seem to be no local group that meets regular in Africa, or? Not in South Africa, no. Perhaps Mikel Maron has organized some kind of user group in Kibera ? But it will not be a typical user group. -- Speaking of meeting up: Anyone in Gauteng interested in meeting to discuss the present and future of OSM on Android ? I count at least 5 OSM apps that have been released for Android during the last 2 months alone (KeypadMapper, MapQuest, Navit, Nick Whitelegg's project and Gosmore). Anyone who haven't see augmented reality type apps will surely be impressed. -- ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za End of Talk-ZA Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1 ** ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Antony Pegg anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: - We've already discovered highway=bridleway not included - we've updated Hello Ant, Considering how weak the standardization processes inside OSM is, you should considered prior art: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/rendering/gosmore/elemstyles.xml Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Any process on website usability?
Gert, I think you should have tagged it as sarcasm, not irony. In that case, I think there is a lot of truth in what you are saying. On a slightly more constructive note, I would like to remind everyone that it is possible to fork the rails and / or embed Potlatch and a few other tricks. If someone builds a portal like that that is better, then sign me up / migrate me. There are a lot of talented webmasters in the chapters... 2011/2/27 ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl: Irony ON the community is too busy changing license and blocking users to be considered with futile details like theOSM.ORG website. You will probably get more support if you suggest to improve the looks of the osmfoundation.org website But your request will soon get attention, once everyone has been forced to accept the new OSMF (sorry ODBL) license. That will probably be somewhere in 2015 Irony OFF Gert Gremmen -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Matthias Meißer [mailto:dig...@arcor.de] Verzonden: zondag 27 februari 2011 11:07 Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] Any process on website usability? Hi, sometimes I get asked when the webfrontend of osm.org get a renew to fit better the needs of mappers or externals. In most times I just point the person to a page of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Usability But anyway is there any process started or still the freeze of single users overwhelmed by this huge task? regards Matthias ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?
Let me just explain what I see as the major performance bottleneck with and API implementation: Disk seeks. A typical computer can perform a million calculations while waiting for the disk to fetch a few bytes. So a good data structure that can answer most map (bbox) calls with a single disk seek is what is needed. (Not a debate on the best programming language). I have ideas how to do that if anyone is interested. But I willing to wait and see what Ian comes up with. -- I'm learning Java right now and I find the array handling quite peculiar. For storing arrays of dynamic size, I use ArrayList. The only way to index the elements are with the get() method. Compare that with STL where you can address vectors with the normal [] operator. On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Anders Arnholm and...@arnholm.se wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2011-02-18 22:47, David Murn skrev: Is there any language slower or more resource intensive than java? Yes, there are many, Java have is strengths and down sides, Java as any language have it's strengths and down sides. Speed in Java can be much better that C, C++ or even hand optimized Assembler. It can also and java's weak sides, for performance, is it's dependence on garbage collection. That even is proved mathematically be a more efficient way of handling memory allocations tends to do the memory handling at for the user bad times. And real time performance in almost all applications have very little with the language to do, but with the chooses of algorithms and data-storage chosen for the application. currently, in the world), then who cares about java, why isnt it written in optimized C or some other similarly lowish level language, rather than java? There can be a 1000 reasons, and all valid. A good team knowing java but not c. C make to much time go into development compared to an object oriented language. C have no good api's to connect to the other services around. The bottle neck is not at all in the code for the service but in stuff around it. When is comes to error's in the code, web, net servers in java are as possible to break, using java is not a safe way to make sure the code is correct. It still need to be planned and safe for internet usage. The typical safety problems thou differ because different things are hard ans easy in the two language families. Just a few random morning thoughts. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1fdUwACgkQtbR3SXmySrdAnACgrSQlpvvBNqtT32RlIGBssqMO npcAoKrP8LY3syoJf3lKl4VdZz5yttkK =EVqp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: This is getting crazy. Exhibit 1: http://twitter.com/#!/maproomblog/status/39053538692698112 Whoever imported CanVec in Aylmer, Quebec obliterated hours of work and introduced hundreds of errors. #osm #openstreetmap #whybother Once again, some keyboard jockey has decided that his l337 import skills are better than the knowledge and hours of work by a local mapper. The offender appears to be user 'sammuell' by the look of it - http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/sammuell - though he hasn't posted anything about his activities on the user page, the wiki, or indeed anywhere. I would consider that immediate ground for reverting it. But Samuel has made over 500 changesets in the 3 years he's been active and most of them are normal edits. Which means a normal dispute resolution process may be advisable. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Announcement: Availability of True Offset web service
Hello Dermot and Steve, Perhaps one solution would be to make a tool that downloads a few reference tiles in the target area and then store the MD5 signatures. Subsequent runs of the tool will check the hashes and generate beeps, emails or tweets asking a human to check the offsets. And the tool should be easy to write because it can work on either the compressed images or a screen capture of an editor. Regards, Nic On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Dermot McNally derm...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 February 2011 23:35, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I think you're probably right. One thing that would mitigate the situation I was talking about would be if OSM editors display the current offset somewhere on the screen. Maybe a little red arrow pointing in the appropriate direction (and perhaps length indicating the distance of the offset). Hmm, not bad - that is, at any stage that the imagery has been moved from its default position, there would be a subtle but visible indicator? That fits in pretty well with our underlying goals with True Offset, to make sure no mapper traces without realising that alignment is sometimes wrong, must be considered and can be changed. That suggestion, of course, would need to be taken up by the authors of each editor. Cheers, Dermot -- -- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Power-user GPS app for Android?
Hello Ivan, I use a number of apps. I customize my home screen, so it's very fast to switch between them. For recording tracks, I use My Tracks (a Google product, very mature). For recording house numbers I made my own app. (I'm currently adding 150 new addresses each day, nearly a thousand if you count interpolation) If you know a little bit java and python, you can certainly adapt it to recording PoIs: Source: https://github.com/nroets/KeypadMapper Documentation: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1385/what-is-the-best-mobile-application-for-large-scale-house-number-collection And for view the map I use the unreleased (still in development) version of Gosmore. Regards, Nic On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ivan Petrushev ivanat...@gmail.com wrote: Can you suggest me a power-user GPS application for Android? I've recently switched from my Sony Ericsson K800 to Android and really miss MapNav. Most of the android apps I've tried are really naive - there is a map, and there is a dot representing your position, and this is all. Some of them have online routing via Cloudmade or other service. Not something really impressive. There are two cases I'll be using that app for: A) collect data for OSM B) when on a trip - checking and correcting OSM data For A) - I don't want anything with a embedded OSM editor! I like to make marks (in the app), take photos and then later enter all data in JOSM. I'm often in regions with no access to Internet. So I need all maps to be prepared before and use them offline. Preferably use vector maps because of the scaling and routing. Also if using routing (and it is new to me and I don't find it really a-must) it should be offline routing. About tracks - I keep lots of tracks, some of them with 5k+ nodes. I need to be able to easily tell which track is what. MapNav was a perfect app with tons of options, but it won't run on Android. There are certain emulators but none of them get to run it smoothly. That's why I search for something that is android-native, but so far I haven't hit anything worthy. I've checked OsmAnd and it has troubles saving tracks. I've checked Maverick and it has troubles saving POIs. I've created a list of features that I need and a list of features that it will be nice to have but not mandatory. MUST HAVES - Tracks -- record track points by distance traveled (for example every 50 m) or by time (for example every 10 s). Combination of two can be possible with AND or OR. -- save and load tracks -- view saved tracks in list select active track -- export/import track formats - at least GPX -- display and update active track on the map -- ability to easily pause track recording (for example when you are standing still at one place) - Marks -- ability to quickly add new mark (or call it POI if you like) around my current location -- ability to add new mark with specific coordinates (useful for geocaching) -- easily export and import marks - Main display -- display current speed -- display distance between current position and a selected target position -- display distance between random two points - Map sources -- offline maps easily created -- OSM -- downloading Google Earth (or other sources) tiles from Internet OPTIONALS - Tracks -- show altitude and speed profiling of a track -- edit track nodes (for example cut nodes out of the track, or split track in two) -- rename saved tracks -- list saved tracks with details (like length, timestamp of first node, timestamp of last node) and sorting -- display more than one track over the map at once - Marks -- ability to take photo and geotag/add it to a mark - Main display -- display current coordinates and altitude -- number of points in active track -- ability to show a ruler on the map -- display satelite status - Navigation -- ability to calculate route from point A to point B w/o Internet ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Power-user GPS app for Android?
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Andrew Gregory andrew.greg...@gmail.com wrote: and usability, and by adding OpenStreetBugs support (which needs network comms). I've been using OpenStreetBugs as my online POI database of things to survey. It probably wouldn't take too much work to create offline bug reporting, and upload bugs when comms become available. Another idea would be to create a photo bugs toolchain: 1. Surveyor takes a geotagged photo of a bug 2. Uploads it at a later stage to a central server 3. Another user open Josm, zoom in on an area and downloads the photos. 4. Make the corrections and upload. The idea would be to streamline the process as far as possible. In (1), the GPS, compass and sensors must all be accurate before taking the picture. The user must be allowed to annotate the picture, perhaps even with a voice recording. Bulk operations must be supported in (2) and (3) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Power-user GPS app for Android?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 15:24 +0200, Nic Roets wrote: And for view the map I use the unreleased (still in development) version of Gosmore. Nic, Do you mean gosmore on android, or gosmore on CE? If you mean android, is there any ETA on when this might be released, or escape from your system? :) As you know, Im an avid user of the CE version, but if theres an android version floating around, I cant wait to give that a try. David Gosmore on Android. Within a week or two. One major enhancement is that the sea is rendered as an area. And it's already fairly responsive on my entry level 500 Mhz single core phone. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with
Hello Serge, I hope Richard convinced you that my intentions was purely to further the debate and not to attack anyone. It is however not the point of this email... On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: Nic, Richard has a long history with this community of being one of our ambassadors, in every sense of the world. He's a prolific mapper, he's been a very effective community organizer, a project leader, conference organizer, and former Cloudmade Ambassador. Personally I'm not a fan of the Cloudmade business model. Perhaps I'm alone in this, but I think they they have distracted the community and the osm.org website and the tagging standards would have evolved a lot faster if they were not around. Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with
Steve, Another thing that Bing can help us with is determining address ranges of roads. For example, when you spider the web and find references to 5, 20 and 48 Lion Street, Pretoria, then it may help the user who is mapping that street. Perhaps it's a cul de sac and now he doesn't need to travel all the way down it to see where the range ends. A little bit of care will be needed to suppress databases that may be legally protected. But I can't see any problem if you extract 1 address per website. Regards, Nic On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: A little bit of care will be needed to suppress databases that may be legally protected. But I can't see any problem if you extract 1 address per website. I can see a problem with that idea. I only infringed a little bit is still infringing. My understanding is that extracting a single fact from a single source is always legal (in the US, in the UK, everywhere). Journalists extracts small amounts of facts from many individual sources all day long and rarely get into trouble. If we extract only 1 address per website, the vast majority of those pages will be home pages and business websites. People who would approve of what we are doing if it is brought to their attention. So it's a symbiotic relationship. Google's idea of a little bit of care is simply to honor robots.txt, spider with an obvious user agent and adherence to a few web standards. And there is a word for people with disapprove of this practice: Copyright Troll. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Nominatim updates
For me, reverse lookups are completely wrong right now. (I haven't tried forward lookups). And the status indication on nominatim.openstreetmap.org is blank. So I figure he's doing a DB rebuild or something. http://osm.org/?lat=-25.797306lon=28.289618zoom=18 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] House numbers in Pretoria and Johannesburg ETA 2012
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 25 January 2011 16:23, Anton Damhuis antondamh...@cybersmart.co.za wrote: What phone at Game are you referring to? I have been looking at getting a new phone with GPS, and R1000.00 seems reasonable to pay. Likely the Vodafone VF845. Tech Specs: * Processor: Qualcomm 528MHz * OS: Android OS, v2.1 * Screen: TFT touchscreen, 65K colors, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate UI * Application: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM * Connection: GPRS Class 10 (4 +1 / 3 +2 slots), 32-48 kbps, EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DPUSB v2.0 / Model: Full TouchScreen Candybar * Internal Memory: 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM * External Memory: microSD (Max up to 16GB) * Camera: 3:15 MP, 2048×1536 Banner, autofocus, video Support * Network: HSDPA 7.2Mbps (3.5G) / WCDMA 900/2100MHz / GSM Triband 900/1800/1900MHz * Battery: Li-Ion 1200 mAh * Color Options: Black * Browser: HTML, JAVA MIDP 2.0 * Dimension: 100 x 56 x 14mm * Weight: 110g * Talk Time: up to 270 mins * Standby Time: up to 270 hours Good news ! This phone actually includes a GPS receiver ! http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Nic%20Roets/traces/912278 And it's running on MTN without rooting it. (I discovered that you can press 'Menu' in the APN list and add the right one). ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] House numbers in Pretoria and Johannesburg ETA 2012
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 25 January 2011 16:23, Anton Damhuis antondamh...@cybersmart.co.za wrote: What phone at Game are you referring to? I have been looking at getting a new phone with GPS, and R1000.00 seems reasonable to pay. Likely the Vodafone VF845. That's right. When Game did not have stock I bought it for a few hundred rand extra from Cellucity. And I'm very pleased. It has a solid feel to it. You would think that they would cut corners with e.g. inaccurate sensors, but they didn't. The only problem I found is that it will not make data connections over MTN (and CellC ?), presumably because the APN has been hard coded. I also think people used to capacitive touchscreen and/or full keyboard will be disappointed, but that's not me. Tech Specs: * Processor: Qualcomm 528MHz * OS: Android OS, v2.1 * Screen: TFT touchscreen, 65K colors, 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate UI * Application: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, IM * Connection: GPRS Class 10 (4 +1 / 3 +2 slots), 32-48 kbps, EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DPUSB v2.0 / Model: Full TouchScreen Candybar * Internal Memory: 512MB ROM / 256MB RAM * External Memory: microSD (Max up to 16GB) * Camera: 3:15 MP, 2048×1536 Banner, autofocus, video Support * Network: HSDPA 7.2Mbps (3.5G) / WCDMA 900/2100MHz / GSM Triband 900/1800/1900MHz * Battery: Li-Ion 1200 mAh * Color Options: Black * Browser: HTML, JAVA MIDP 2.0 * Dimension: 100 x 56 x 14mm * Weight: 110g * Talk Time: up to 270 mins * Standby Time: up to 270 hours Details ripped from here: http://www.androidza.co.za/ / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: Recently I encountered a CSI-style mystery. Why was the Skobbler lady (OSM Nav based) telling people to go jump off of so many bridges? An inspection showed that the bridges were joined to the interstate highway below, but many interchanges otherwise had very high quality edits, with attention to many details. So how did the people who made such skilled edits overlook false intersections? It turns out that they didn't. A history view shows the dreaded Removing duplicate nodes in the change list. The original edit just used JOSM's un(G)lue node command, leaving the dupe nodes in place. A perfectly valid technique until the attack of the duplicate node bots. Mike, please don't blame the bot. Ungluing a node an just leaving it there, is really looking for trouble. Some routing engine(s) glue nodes together that are less than a few centimeters from each other. Now you may want to complain that those routing engine(s) are buggy, but that bug has historically made things easier rather than more difficult. And going forward, I expect it to continue to be a feature rather than a bug. Now this is all past history - I think most of the mass and uninformed duplicate node work in the US has stopped since last year. But, like the grumpy old man who runs outside and yells at the neighborhood kids who play in his yard, you can bet that every time I hear the whir and clickety-clack of anything that sounds like an OSM bot, I'll make sure that they've done due diligence rather than just relying on only the changeset comment. But quality bot edits are still welcome! P.S. Don't get me started on how the dupe node bots made a 3 minute county line road fixup into a 30 minute nightmare. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Postmortem analysys
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Mike N. nice...@att.net wrote: Mike, please don't blame the bot. Ungluing a node an just leaving it there, is really looking for trouble. Some routing engine(s) glue nodes together that are less than a few centimeters from each other. Now you may want to complain that those routing engine(s) are buggy, but that bug has historically made things easier rather than more difficult. And going forward, I expect it to continue to be a feature rather than a bug. Consider me firmly in the it's a bug camp. Routers in general work with data from different sources; but it's a bug in OSM to have an intended connection only be close but not connected.There's no minimum node distance for disconnected nodes - just best practices to minimize database clutter from dupe nodes. QA tools like Keepright make it feasible to monitor and maintain large areas in a fully correct topology. Do routing engines glue nodes from different layers? Yes, provided they are close enough (for the engine(s) in question). Do they automatically connect crossing ways on the same layer? Only in the rare case where both crossing ways contain nodes at the crossing point. (for the engine(s) in question). Look, I'm saying that I do my part fix things that may cause problems somewhere in the software stack. For example, I discovered that the Appalachian trail was at some point the largest object in the DB. Potlach and several other pieces of software would either bomb out or take ages to respond. So I messaged the last editor and he agreed that many of the nodes are redundant. So I deleted those nodes. After ungluing a node, move one of them just a little bit. (Unless you used a DGPS with a 10cm resolution and found that the centerlines are in fact on top of each other). If you leave them on top of each other, it's going to waste someone's time later on (either after a bot edit, a keepright warning, a routing error or a user editing the area who is completely oblivious to the possibility that two nodes can be on top of each other). A very simple way of reducing the problem inside the router will be to move nodes by small random amounts, but I have more urgent bugs and feature requests. Either modification would change the calculated route. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: -If you look at Android from the view point of the end user or the hacker, it's quite closed. DRM, binary drivers, and the mobile operators occasionally blocking tethering applications. However, independent application developers with valid business models love Android. Their applications aren't tied to a proprietary operating system. There have been reports that it's even possible to remove Google from the ecosystem, should they ever become evil. TBH I think that hackers (as in open-source developers) can do quite a bit with Android too, as is evidenced by the large number of OSM applications available for it - as long as, presumably, they don't have to do anything too low-level. I myself intend to do some hacking with it and it looks like it will allow me to do what I want to do. I don't think a valid business model is needed. Compared with the ridiculously closed model of the iPhone, far, far more closed than desktop Windows ever was, Android is very open by comparison. Nick I meant valid business model as in no malware, no piracy, no violation of the terms of service of the mobile operator e.g. tethering. Using a mobile phone to collect and verify mapping data is definitely a valid business model, even if no money changes hands. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: andrzej zaborowski schrieb: Note that that there will also be some folks that have a Nokia phone because they're open souce nuts and use a Maemo-linux Nokia phone. AFAIK Maemo, Palm's Webos and Android are all about the same level of open, i.e. linux-based but including some closed source drivers or libraries. I have to disagree, as Android is quite closed compared to those other two, If you look at Android from the view point of the end user or the hacker, it's quite closed. DRM, binary drivers, and the mobile operators occasionally blocking tethering applications. However, independent application developers with valid business models love Android. Their applications aren't tied to a proprietary operating system. There have been reports that it's even possible to remove Google from the ecosystem, should they ever become evil. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: I’m curious. So here’s a little survey, people like you take a second to answer it; http://bit.ly/ii3cKg Specifically I’m wondering if everyone has androids because we’re all open source nuts or if it’s more balanced? Only the data will show. When I wrote my mobile app, I chose Windows CE over OpenMoko based on what devices will be cheaply available a couple of years down the line without having to rewrite large parts of the code. (It was a bit tricky to support all the variations of Windows CE, but still quite successful). By the same logic, Android will rule amongst hobbyists over the next few years, while Iphone will make all the money. You don't need to be an open source nut to see that. Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Turn left restriction on two way highways
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Steve Doerr steve.do...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On 30/12/2010 22:50, Diego Woitasen wrote: Yes, we'll map the restrictions. I reviewed the local law and sometimes you can turn left so we must tag the restriction on every case. Does it have to be every intersection, or could you tag a default on the way or relation and then tag the exceptions? How would routers feel about that? I remember a suggestion like this a long time ago. Tagging a way with restriction=no_left_turn (especially if it has a oneway=yes tag) would specify a default for that particular way only. This is much easier for routers or preprocessors to adopt. I think before we had relations, I suggested it as a way of specifying turn restrictions without relations. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Turn left restriction on two way highways
Hello Diego, Are left turns prohibited for the majority of junctions where two residential roads cross each other ? Are left turns prohibited even at the majority of residential T junctions ? I know it may look like a lot of work adding all the no_left_turns, but it's the right way. Having different defaults for each country leads to many problems: 1. At a T junction, something that looks a left turn to some may look like a straight on to others. 2. Writing the code is non trivial and it affects routing engines, relation editors, validators and even some renderers. 3. Tourists who map in Argentina may not do the right thing. Regards, Nic On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Diego Woitasen di...@woitasen.com.arwrote: Hi, In Argentina we have a general rule. If you are driving in a two way highway (residential, primary, secondary, etc) you can't turn left. You can do it only if there is a sign and/or traffic light with the turn left row. We are discussing in the Argentina forum about if it's make sense to map the no_turn_left restriction on every crossing road or not. I think that we should drive the exception to the rule, the routing software should apply the default restriction. What are you doing in the other countries? Regards, Diego -- Diego Woitasen ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:07 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:26 +0100, Sebastian Klein wrote: thanks to fast development by Ian Dees, Bing imagery can now be used in JOSM. and it is legal to use it? Yes, see http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details. Richard Fairhurst, seems to be in closer contact with the people from MS and there may be minor revisions, but these are basically the terms we have. this is not an OSM site - where is the OSM viewpoint on this? It was posted by Steve Coast, Chairman of OSMF and a Microsoft employee. So the chances of Microsoft suing us for taking that info at face value is zero. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] routing across open spaces
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: hi, i walk a lot, and would like a routing engine which understands i can take a direct route across an open public space, such as a park, without needing a footpath to be explicitly drawn in. the existing routing engines don't seem to understand this. or am i missing a tag? do i need to tag parks, etc. with area=yes foot=yes, access=yes or would that be a case of tagging for the routing engine Firstly note that routing across areas is (theoretically) much harder than routing along ways (Non-polynomial time VS polynomial time). Secondly note that the problem is not restricted to pedestrian routing, e.g. parking areas. There have been cases where people mapped the road surface as areas, although they would then also have ways running down the centerline. Supporting areas is on my list of things that I would like to do, but there are many other things in front of it. I recently added dragable routes to the Osm.org Routing Demo. I improved the endpoints. Negotiated for a better server. Routing instructions and translations. And for Christmas I want a mobile application for large scale collection of house numbers. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] routing across open spaces
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: hi, i walk a lot, and would like a routing engine which understands i can take a direct route across an open public space, such as a park, without needing a footpath to be explicitly drawn in. the existing routing engines don't seem to understand this. or am i missing a tag? do i need to tag parks, etc. with area=yes foot=yes, access=yes or would that be a case of tagging for the routing engine Firstly note that routing across areas is (theoretically) much harder than routing along ways (Non-polynomial time VS polynomial time). Secondly note that the problem is not restricted to pedestrian routing, e.g. parking areas. There have been cases where people mapped the road surface as areas, although they would then also have ways running down the centerline. Supporting areas is on my list of things that I would like to do, but there are many other things in front of it. I recently added dragable routes to the Osm.org Routing Demo. I improved the endpoints. Negotiated for a better server. Routing instructions and translations. And for Christmas I want a mobile application for large scale collection of house numbers. I definitely second your call for a mobile app to easily collect house numbers. A single-purpose app could be very simple. Would you want to have something graphical (user pinpoints address on map on-screen) or something even simpler (user enters housenumber, selects street based on location or accepts best match, address node is sent to OSM). In the latter case, which is what I would prefer, how would you deal with GPS inaccuracy? Non-graphical. The streetname is not added to the address PoI. Nominatim is smart enough to take the closest street. If I travel down a street it, I want to be able to tell it that house 23 is on my left using just 3 or 4 keystrokes / taps. http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1385/what-is-the-best-mobile-application-for-large-scale-house-number-collection Martijn van Exel +++ m...@rtijn.org laziness – impatience – hubris http://schaaltreinen.nl | http://martijnvanexel.nl | http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ twitter / skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Tracing
I must say, I haven't seen an open community this excited about an MS announcement since ... umm .. forever ! On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.orgwrote: I suspect that if legal had decided it was unacceptable, Bing wouldn't have released the statement in the first place. It is a matter of reviewing everything before opening the flood gate. Indeed, that would be quite a PR disaster, and would force SteveC to do a lot of explanations. So, that scenario is very unlikely... The devil may still be in the detail. Such as limits on zoom levels and / or coverage or even a requirement that tracing can only be done in Silverlight. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:54 PM, S Omeone someonew...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I haven't seen this mention before and I thought it might be of some interest here. Since sometime last year Google no longer used TeleAtlas for their map data in the USA but instead created their own map data. It seems they have now extended their own data to 10 more countries including some in Europe Africa and In South Africa's case that doesn't mean too much. The StreetView cars didn't cover all the roads. So they had to buy data from a commercial vendor. That vendor has some quality issues (see the illegal route in the link below). They also rely on government data that is no longer being maintained. So Google is not really smarter. They are relying on man power like everyone else. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=-25.781959,28.291027daddr=326+Edna+St,+Pretoria+0081,+South+Africahl=engeocode=%3BCXVbiDH7YSbAFSendv4duLevASkdxtgEomCVHjEtejqmm6w9SAmra=miftmrsp=0sz=17sll=-25.781141,28.290718sspn=0.006975,0.009645ie=UTF8z=17 Oceania [1,2]. However, what makes it interesting from a OSM point of view (apart from knowing what the competitors do) is the way they seemingly crowd source their updates and error reports. (The main data is, unlike their also very successful map maker maps, not crowd sourced, but supposedly collected together with the street view data). Just like they have had in the US, however, they now have a nice and simple, easy to spot and convenient Report a problem link in these countries in the bottom right hand corner. OpenStreetMap has of cause something similar with OpenStreetBugs (which Google may well have used as inspiration), but unfortunately, as too often, less convenient. Instead of simply clicking on the report a problem link, in OSM you first have to know something like this exists, then figure out that you might learn about such a feature on the wiki, search the wiki for it, go to some random external page, then find your location on the map again without a search box on the OSB page, and then finally you might actually be able to add your error report... Can we perhaps learn something from Google of how to build a nice user friendly crowd sourcing of local knowledge? Also, can we perhaps somehow harness the fact that Google is educating people about the possibilities to crowd source maps through map maker and the report a problem link? E.g. by creating a press release highlighting some of the additional benefits of OSM over Google (without being unfair to them)? Or will Google eventually beat OSM at its own game? [1] http://searchengineland.com/google-updates-maps-in-10-countries-teleatlas-going-away-55288 [2] http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/11/changing-world-changing-maps.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SotM11 will be held in Denver.
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: contributors, core developers, authors, etc. are still in Germany, the UK and other countries of Western Europe, As an outsider to the bidding and selection process, I think that hosting it in the US will be good for OSM. If a company wants to announce a new technology, they almost always do it in the US for various reasons e.g. the story gets picked up by international TV channels, the vast numbers of foreign born US residents spread the idea throughout the world etc. Also consider the fact that the Cloudmade and MapQuest ambassador programs are / were aimed at the US and as sponsors, their preferences should be taken into consideration. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] SotM11 will be held in Denver.
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 24/10/2010 09:40, Nic Roets wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: contributors, core developers, authors, etc. are still in Germany, the UK and other countries of Western Europe, As an outsider to the bidding and selection process, I think that hosting it in the US will be good for OSM. If a company wants to announce a new technology, they almost always do it in the US for various reasons e.g. the story gets picked up by international TV channels, the vast numbers of foreign born US residents spread the idea throughout the world etc Is that why Dell launched it's Streak mobile 'phone in the UK first? Launched in the UK ? I guess that is why I have never heard of it. I guess you are not too fond of the US being the trend setter for the world, in which case I would like to point out two things: The UK had it's turn during the colonial era. The US is loosing it's throne to the Internet i.e. location is becoming less and less important. . Also consider the fact that the Cloudmade and MapQuest ambassador programs What's an 'ambassador' program? http://cloudmade.com/careers/community-ambassador Cheers Dave F. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] New: Mobile Map for Android and iPhone
Somewhere in the (firefox?) documentation of geolocation, they hint at the possibility of turn-by-turn navigation. Which caused me to think what other GPS or vehicle tracking applications can be written as web apps. For example, a friend of mine with a sailing boat (yacht) is always worrying that the anchor may not be secure and the wind may blow it out to sea or onto the rocks. If he's on the boat, the alarm of the on board GPS is sufficient. But he needs a device to monitor the boat when he's onshore. So I pointed him to the wide range of vehicle tracking devices that exist. But it's the type of thing that is / will become feasible with an inexpensive mobile phone. If only there was an app for it. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Bernhard Zwischenbrugger b...@datenkueche.com wrote: Hi all I made a map with GPS and Nominatim for Android and iPhone. It is a WebApplication that lives in the Browser. On iPhone you can add the map to the home screen to make it fullscreen. How to open: - Just type http://khtml.org in your mobile browser URL field. You don't have to install it - it's a normal web page. Using the touchscreen : drag/drop: move the map doubleclick: zooms in at the click position iPhone: On iPhone you have multitouch to zoom in/out Android: For zoom in/out the map you have 2 buttons. This will zoom the map center. GPS: --- There is a button that allows you to find your own position. The location service on your mobile phone must be enabled to use this function. The geolocation will try to use real GPS signal from satellite. If you are in a building the map tries to find the position using the signatures of wifi stations or GSM base stations. Nominatim: -- Press the search button and type the place you search for. There is NO list of search results as on the osm.org page. It will take the first result an the map jumps to this position. If you search for example for vienna vienna in Austria will show up in the map. If you look for vienna in the states type vienna usa for example. Bugs: - I have tested on Motorola Milestone and iPhone 3GS iOS 3.1.2. If you find bugs please let me know. Mobile Opera and Mobile Firefox (fennec) don't have touch events and the map does not work. have fun Bernhard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Sharpe kevin.sha...@btinternet.comwrote: I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try here; We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third party could extract and use the charge point data without restriction. Why not just republish your raw data on your own site under the license of your choice ? Then set the source url to your website and add it to OSM. If you don't do it this way, then there will there will always be doubts when a user or bot change your contribution. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:07:56 +0200, Milo van der Linden wrote: Making the perfectly rendered map available to the world is *not* a mission goal for the OSMF. The OSMF is primarily responsible for maintaining the database and the services related to it. Well then OSMF should change their mission to include nice representation of data also, not to compete with commercial companies just to make defalut map not suck would be nice ;). Note that Justin did not refer to OSMF. Milo brought it up. I thought Justin was addressing the community (a loose association of thousands of volunteers). OSMF has a duty to entice or motivate people to improve the map. That will be easier when the map is pretty. So making a pretty map is a means to an end. I think however that the rendering is pretty enough and that there are a lot of other things that are more important. Perform a simple test: Take someone with a reasonable computer background and ask them to plan their next journey with OSM. Will they be able to locate the places on the map ? Routing ?? After completing the journey, will they be able to register on our site and make the corrections they identified ? How long does it all take ? People value their own time. The good news is that there are a lot of improvements in testing right now. -- pratite me na twitteru - www.twitter.com/valentt blog: http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com linux, anime, spirituality, windsurf, wireless, ronjenje, pametne kuće registered as user #367004 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org. ICQ: 2125241, Skype: valent.turkovic, MSN: valent.turko...@hotmail.com ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:22:56 -0600 SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Anthony is just trolling. He's been kicked out of wikipedia, as noted multiple times. Ignore him. That is untruthful. I'm afraid that Steve is right to say Ignore him. He's almost always looking for an angle that will cause conflict, upset people and steer the debate off topic. Like bringing up the license change. Like suggesting that MapQuest is only here for short term gains. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] If you've missed this ...
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM, TimSC mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 06/10/10 00:59, Richard Weait wrote: http://opengeodata.org/osm-founder-steve-coast-leaves-cloudmade What, if any, impact does this have on OSM and OSMF, I wonder? It may remove a conflict of interest problem or two ?? But more importantly, it shows to me that the feature curve or novelty factor of OSM is flattening out. Once you have efficient rendering, searching and routing and the community is no longer growing exponentially, it's just hard work to polish everything. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] If you've missed this ...
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Op 06-10-10 15:12, Nic Roets schreef: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:55 PM, TimSC mappingli...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 06/10/10 00:59, Richard Weait wrote: http://opengeodata.org/osm-founder-steve-coast-leaves-cloudmade What, if any, impact does this have on OSM and OSMF, I wonder? It may remove a conflict of interest problem or two ?? He is still shareholder, as is stated in the message. That shows that there is a potential financial conflict of interest. For example if OSM switches license, it can be good for Cloudmade or bad for them, he could defend his own financial position. He will definitely be more independent now that he doesn't spend 8 hours a day in close proximity to the CM employees and he never has meetings with their lawyers (see some of the discussions on legal-talk in recent months). Y'all have a funny way of demonstrating your warm wishes for his future and presumption of good faith. Unlike you, I guess I'm just seeing him and his wife as ordinary members of the team (taking into account code written, keynote speeches etc). So yes, good luck to him and good luck to anyone else on this list changing careers. And saying someone has a conflict on interest is not an insult. Nor should it lead to automatic exclusion from debates or votes. But it should be mentioned. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and MapQuest [was Hurricane hits MapQuest]
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: On 5 Oct 2010, at 00:38, Nic Roets wrote: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: So, is it possible for Mapquest to generate aggregate information on what name searches people are doing and how often they find the result they wanted? The latter is not something you can measure directly, but you can see which of the offered results the user clicks on, which gives a clue. The biggest problem I experience when searching with Nominatim for a street is that you need to guess the place name that *it* has chosen. For example, Hyperion Drive falls in a suburb (johannesburg North, I think). The suburb falls in a region and the region falls in a city. And the city falls in a province. Some of that information is already in OSM as administrative borders. But end users seldom know where the borders are, so they will just search for hyperion, johannesburg and not get an answer. (To get it, search for hyperion, roodepoort) Or they will be too lazy to type the suburb. Admin, town and city boundaries are in many ways hit and miss with nominatim, however that is generally through a lack of osm data. Or better said just having points, where it is difficult to estimate the size. For example according to Nominatim Surrey covers most of London http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=559111 (Which it doesn't really). By using Polygons for the boundaries in the osm data instead of simple points, it will be more likely to give a more accurate result. That's a nice visual presentation. I guess it's generated by Fortune's algorithm like Brian mentioned on dev. The first problem with trying to get polygons for all places is that surveying them can be quite labourious, if not impossible. The second problem is that people, especially tourists and foreign, don't speak like that. They often know only one placename, like Johannesburg http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=750446 IMHO, Gosmore handles the problem a little bit better: It first finds the placename and then it will look for occurrences of the street name, even if they are quite far from the place. Another problem is that place names can be fuzzy, as one person will say place x will cover a certain area, however another person will say it covers a different area, yet officially that's wrong. Shaun ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] OSM and MapQuest [was Hurricane hits MapQuest]
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: So, is it possible for Mapquest to generate aggregate information on what name searches people are doing and how often they find the result they wanted? The latter is not something you can measure directly, but you can see which of the offered results the user clicks on, which gives a clue. The biggest problem I experience when searching with Nominatim for a street is that you need to guess the place name that *it* has chosen. For example, Hyperion Drive falls in a suburb (johannesburg North, I think). The suburb falls in a region and the region falls in a city. And the city falls in a province. Some of that information is already in OSM as administrative borders. But end users seldom know where the borders are, so they will just search for hyperion, johannesburg and not get an answer. (To get it, search for hyperion, roodepoort) Or they will be too lazy to type the suburb. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Vincent Pottier vpott...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/10/2010 05:51, Brendan Morley wrote: I actually investigated the use of public domain principles - however Australian copyright law does not allow it. The best we can do is a CC BY with zero attribution. If there's anyone out there who can let me know why zero attribution is not a good enough substitute for public domain, I'd like to get in contact with you. I'm not a lawer, but I think in the French law the moral fatherhood (paernité morale) can't be removed. So, zero attribution can't be a ggod solution for France. I am also not a lawyer, but I think some of these problems can be solved by a little bit of legal structuring. The foundation can ask the contributors to collect and process the data in return for some token reward, like a little bit of CPU time. Then the contributors will never have ownership of the data. You can even go a step further: If one of the governments are interested in getting directly involved, the terms and conditions of the website can say that that government is asking you to collect the data and process the data for some token reward. Then that government can make it PD. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Are there any other projects in a similar fork situation? (Slightly OT)
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: From what I understand, it appears that OSM is cutting ties with many of these due to the wording of the new license/CT. That's totally wrong. We're seeing greater commercial support than ever before, Really ? Can you name a single commercial company who said that they are going to do something more with the data after the license change ? SteveC hinted at it a few times, without giving any details. and we're seeing (for example) the French government adopt the OBbL. Well the US government has consistently stuck to PD for many decades. And they have released a LOT more data. (TIGER, SRTM, GPS, Landsat etc). ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Peter Körner osm-li...@mazdermind.de wrote: Am 29.09.2010 11:50, schrieb Elizabeth Dodd: This belongs back on talk with a new header. OSM states that it is a free map, free to edit and free to use Whether the database should contain imported stuff, traced stuff, or only personally surveyed stuff is a very big issue and any intent now to alter the basic rules of inputting should be back on Talk. Imported data is dead data - there's no one that feels responsible for it. Imports can kill community and give newcomers the feeling that there's nothing more to be done. Imports *can* help osm but they can also *hurt* osm, because osm is about people, not data. Obviously there are many exceptions to your rule, like the TIGER import. To get back to what OSM should be. I think the words Open and StreetMap create certain expectations among the general public and we should close attention to that. When we reach them, we get only a few minutes of their time, and if their expectations aren't met they loose interest. Many of the issues have been identified by the uservoice survey. But I also think the paralysis and endless arguments over tagging standards and the license are causing a lot of people to leave. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] In what direction should OSM go?
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 29 September 2010 11:26, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously there are many exceptions to your rule, like the TIGER import. Nic, local example... Durban South Africa, we imported a dataset, the few new mappers who were starting up these stopped mapping and haven't returned post import. The import data is now stagnating. The imported data also has many errors. It's not really as if Johannesburg (where no imports have been made) did any better. A few people started with Roodepoort, but left some holes: Just North of Robert Broom and Florida Lake, both affluent leafy suburbs. Then it stagnated. When the holes were more than a year old, I made a trip to fill them in. My guess is that the original contributors did not even notice. If Johannesburg can't sustain a community, what chance does the less technologically advanced and much smaller Durban have ? TIGER isn't a good example of a successful import. The TIGER import killed a fledgling community in the US, which is now only slowly recovering. TIGER has masses of data without anyone taking any ownership. Do we really need inaccurate, incorrectly tagged data for a dirt track crossing the Rockies? Thanks for sending the links to the blogs, Frederik. All of them focus on the social issues. A few mappers starting out, then telling other Look what I've done, why don't you join me. Then you get the logistic growth that Matt refers to. But the majority of the mappers in my area have selfish motivations. For example the cyclist who adds all the foot paths so that he can use our routing tools to reduce his own traveling time. Or the entrepreneur who adds his own business for the free publicity. There is however a very long lag: After doing the (TIGER) import it takes a lot of time to build a user base of sufficient scale. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Measuring the OpenStreetMap Economy
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:05 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Once you have the criteria of what goes in to the measuring pot of the OSM economy you further have large error bars on the data for each thing. For example, are those freelancers going to tell you what kind of money they're making? It's almost pointless to count actual revenue. The reason why no one started a new competitor to NA / TA in the mid-noughties, was that the intense competition would reduce revenue making it unprofitable. (Ok Google started to compete with NA / TA, but they cleverly combined it with other things like streetview). Most open source / open content projects are a bit like a security guard or an external auditor. If all goes well, it will appear to casual observers that their only function is to consume oxygen. But take them away and you get chaos. A better exercise would be to take the page rank of osm.org and compare it with the market cap of a website with the same page rank. Or compare the number of tags in our database with the number of tags in the NA / TA databases and their values on the balance sheets of their parents. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-Talk-ZA] SFD report back
Interview by letstalkgeek : http://www.letstalkgeek.net/2010/09/sfd-inteview-open-street-maps/ ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Donald Campbell II donaciano2...@gmail.com wrote: So if you visit lots of places in ?outback? Australia, you get to open and close the gates as you go. The gate should be closed, and you are free to pass, but have to open the gate, pass the boundary and close the gate again. You mean like in the movie The God's Must Be Crazy? :-) Same hemisphere, different continent, different desert. But the gates serve the same purpose, namely keeping the livestock fenced in. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers
Hello, I see a lot of frustration with routing not working when there are gates involved. In particular when the gate is in the middle of a public road (residential). This is because a gate with no access tags implies that nothing can go through. By contrast, most highway types let some type of traffic through. For routing purposes. it often creates islands, where some segments can't be reached from the rest of the routing graph. For example, much of this service road is cut off. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.2214151lon=18.7401969zoom=18 Is there perhaps a worldwide tool that can identify these segments ? I tried keepright and the cloudmade debug map, but neither of them show it. Here is a more extensive description of the tagging of restricted areas: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osm.org_Routing_Demo#How_to_tag_restricted_areas Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: It's probably just as well the wiki documents, not defines. And given the vast preponderance of highway=gate nodes within (say) highway=footway ways, the wiki docs look pretty unambiguously wrong. So to obtain a definition of barrier=gate, you want me to do the following: Look at a region where barrier=gate has frequently been used without access tag. Let's say somewhere in the UK (a country I have never visited). Then conclude that a default of access=yes or foot=yes makes the most sense, because it will allow routing along some footways. Except there are places where the placements of the gates (the topology) would lead an intelligent person to conclude that the default access value for gates should be no. For example when there are many ways with gates into an area and one way without a gate: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/308935502 Then there is the possibility that a footway or gate have not been mapped. So I will have to look at many, many gates and have an outstanding intelligence to obtain the correct definition. I'd much rather just look at the wiki. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Is there any interest here in publishing the OSM API via tile-like URLs? For example, being able to make a request like this to pull a chunk of bounded XML cached out of the OSM API: http://tile.openstreetmap.org/14/2627/6331.xml note xml on the end Slicing the planet into thousands of rectangular extracts and updating it daily is quite feasible using a combination of osmosis and bboxSplit. One major advantage of this approach is that it can use idle computing time. And you only need 3GB RAM. (I'm doing something similar for the routing demo.) In fact, I would offer to do this for you on dev.osm.org. But I'm afraid that by the time you start using it heavily, other projects on dev will be affected by the increased load. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate nodes generally
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.auwrote: On a similar topic... What is the problem with duplicate nodes, exactly? They are created when you import data from a source that does not use our way-node model, esp. when the import is done in stages, e.g. at the borders of US counties. And the problem is that you can't route over them. Or you are not supposed to route over them. My routing engine merge those nodes during the compile phase and then does route over them. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate nodes generally
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:26 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/8/30 Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com: Or you are not supposed to route over them. My routing engine merge those nodes during the compile phase and then does route over them. and how does it determinate, that the 2 nodes are really one, and it isn't disconnected on purpose? It doesn't, so it's a bug. But it's extremely unlikely that it will ever have any impact on the user. You will e.g. need a double decker bridge that was surveyed with high precision DGPS equipment and then you can't use Potlatch. The variables I'm using have 10cm resolution. So it's a bug that has become a feature. cheers, Martin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:12 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes it is true that it is a contract. It is contructed this way to make sure that internationally everyone gets the same deal. European Union has the Database Directive but most other countries do not. I strongly believe the ODbL is a copyleft license. The GPL software license was used as a model for creating the ODbL. copyleft is not a contract, it is copyleft. copyleft is based on copyright and not a contract. please reread the gpl, read moglen; http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/lu-12.html Mike, my understanding (and I think Grant will agree) is that copyleft is an idea: I publish something in such a way that coerce others into sharing their work with me. The implementation details of that idea (copyright law, contract law, unenforceable moral clauses etc) is left to the lawyers and the managers. As giving rights to OSMF: It is just a pooling mechanism. Instead of 10,000 contributors each having their own opinion about the next license, we then only have a few ideas and the decision is made by voting. Then a few contributors can't block something good because they're having a bad day. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Anyway I hear there's an excellent group of people planning a continuity fork so any data OSM cannot continue to use would be safe with them. A fork will be a very bad thing. Even if the users are split 80-20, there will be a lot of duplication. Some people will dual license and then there will be imports from the other branch of the fork. Computing resource requirements will nearly double. Outsiders will think that the community is not getting along. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] click-your-route wanted
Hello Peter, I have made my own branch of YOURS for the Osm.org Routing Demo[1]. I fixed many issues. You can get a source tarball[2] from my site. [1]: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/?lat=47.43117lon=3.46952zoom=6layers=B000FTFTTmarkers=!52.37101,4.90011!41.98003,2.82021v=motorcarfast=1 [2]: http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/ On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.dewrote: Hi. I have to do some tests for navigation and search for a good solution to create my route files. Changing the format of a file to my target format is simple, but it's really difficult to get the route. It would be perfect if there is an application where I can draw a route by hand, getting a file containing some kind of node-way-node-way list as a result. Everything I found yet either has no current data (YOURS - data is older than my edits I need), or not possible to install locally (YOURS fails due to issues I cannot solve at installing gosmore and partly php5 incompatibility). Hints are highly welcome. Regards Peter ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Directions API available on OSM data
First you need to ask When will they support routing outside Europe / the UK ? On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: Ant, Do you know how often will the data be updated? Cheers, Julio Costa OpenStreetMap Chile http://www.openstreetmap.cl/ On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:43 PM, anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/08/24/new-mapquest-directions-api-built-on-open-data/ Our own blog post goes out Monday, but it looks like programmable web found the slides from SOTM US. Details on our developer network at http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/featured/open-source/directions-service And the API itself is at http://open.mapquestapi.com/directions Cheers Ant Aut invenium viam aut faciam ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Useful changeset comments are useful.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: There are a lot of things that could be added to a changeset. For instance, a useful changeset comment is a simple and obvious way to cooperate with other mappers. http://ow.ly/2u0IQ This this ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/1180563 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license for business: meh
I can't speak for Chris, but you don't make me nervous because you're quite open and you don't drive any issues that may have business implications. On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, I'm sort of sick of allegations that what I say and do in the community is somehow tainted by myself doing business in OSM. Here's a quote from talk a while ago: Chris Browet wrote: The fact that many key players (SteveC, Frederik, Richard(?)) in the project also have commercial interests in the OSM data also make me nervous and doubtful. I assure you it does not have to make you nervous. Just because someone earns money doesn't automatically make him an asshole with no morals. Basically, everyone who writes what you wrote above somehow seems to want to say: We must always consider that he might be lying to us because he wants to make more money. This makes me sad; I spend a lot of time with OSM stuff, and I could certainly be making a lot more money if I'd take a job in some IT consultancy. But I chose to work in OSM because that way I get to do what I like. Hear? WHAT I LIKE. I have found a way to earn a living from doing what I like, and helping to move the project forward while I'm doing that. Until now, I have had exactly one prospective client who, after I had explained the CC-BY-SA to him, want away with a no thank you, and I have had exactly one prospective client for whom the CC-BY-SA would have been fine but his project wouldn't work with the ODbL (forcing him to release a database he would not have wanted to release), so he went away too. So the ODbL isn't really better or worse for business - it depends, or at least that's my view. In a way, of course, I have a business interest in OSM growing and becoming better, but can you hold that against me? You could also say that I have a business interest in the license matter being resolved one way or the other becaus that saves me from having to explain *two* licenses to every prospective customer which is a bit painful sometimes. And as for me being a key player - I am writing a lot on the lists, I am mapping a bit, I have written some software, and I am on the data working group. I am not essential to anything OSM does, don't hold an OSMF post (nor have I ever sought one)... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: Let's keep the Talk-List clean from Legal discussions. Anybody is welcome to join it on Legal-talk. Sorry, but I've seen those kind of invitations, too. I'm not subscribed to Legal-talk and have no interest in the obscure legal details. General discussion about the new License/CT belongs to Talk. The future of the OSM project as such is at stake, here... Chris, It is possible to change the legal status of something without affecting the community. For example the gold standard was removed making the dollar a Fiat currency without an economic meltdown. So please discuss these things on the legal list. Regards, Nic ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.auwrote: Um, what happened in October 2008? If you look at the percentage change in US GDP and you compare it to the 1800s and the early 1900s, then you will come to the conclusion that nothing happened. The economic contraction was very mild. That is more than 30 years after the US left the gold standard. By no means cause and effect. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms
Steve, I'm trying to be on your side. But as chairman of the OSMF board, you really need to pick your words better. By saying which every rational person I know thinks is the best step forward - the ODbL, you are implying that a lot of people are irrational. I see that your company recently raised $12m, and I deduce that your goal is to make money. And that will be harder if NT and TA can use our data. My goal and that of many other OSM contributors have nothing to do with money. We want people to use the data. If some of the data leaks because of the current license, then it may not be a bad thing. Then it may be simpler to solve the other issues with the current license by presenting each user with a number of check boxes like this: [ ] I give the OSMF the right to sue persons for copyright infringement on my behalf. [ ] Should the OSMF choose not to take legal action, I will not sue anyone myself. [ ] For the purposes of the Share-Alike clause, I interpret alike as meaning ... ... Even if we do not get 100% response, then we remove some of the uncertainty with the current license. One thing we certainly we do not want is closed discussions with lawyers. Regards, Nic On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:23 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: NearMap is the only company I'm aware of attempting to hold a lot of data hostage in this way. We all have our different opinions on the license, but the point is that we need to do something going forward which will be on average better for everyone. It won't be perfect. Therefore we have to make compromises. NearMap have some valid things they pointed out might make the CT's better. The LWG has had approximately 12 hours (from memory) to look at them, and for all we know might think they're awesome and change. Maybe not. We don't know. That's not the same thing as oh my god we should do whatever NearMap want us to do. Therefore it's a discussion about the points in the CT's, which may or may not be changed. Not just do whatever NearMap says. I think a much better position from NearMap would be to compromise on the data already in. Say, yes the data already derived can be used under the CT's. Then work with the LWG to fix the issues they see. You can't really put it's not our place as a company to try and direct or influence the direction of OSM. at the end of an email which is all about trying to direct and influence the directions of the LWG and OSM and expect to be taken seriously. I'd be more honest and say, yes, we do want to change the direction so that it suits our business better. Because that's the reality as I see it. And it's not really that bad. I think the bigger issues is NearMap mistaking the intention and the word of the license. We can debate for the next millennia the meaning of a future free and open license under the specific wording of what that might mean. These are open issues that will take a long time, possibly a lot longer than the ODbL process to figure out. I don't think we're going to get anywhere bouncing between people who want everything to be PD (like USGS) and folks who want it to be some variant of attribution-sharealike and possibly NC (NearMap). We need to move forward in the spirit of compromise on to something which every rational person I know thinks is the best step forward - the ODbL. The other way of cooling this off is to not see the ODbL as the final step. I don't think it was intended to be. Once that's in place, then the field is open to discuss the next steps. Finally, I think the most honest step forward for NearMap and us unless they show some compromise on things like past data is to just shut it off. Believe me, there are a lot of other aerial imagery options being pursued hard and NearMap aren't the be all and end all. If they don't want to play ball and want to place restrictions on OSM, lets just work on alternatives. Steve stevecoast.com Cheers, Peter. 2010/8/19 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com: If it's about NearMap, then talk-au seems more appropriate. On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: this discussion must move to legal-talk. If we don't change the contributor terms, then we lose NearMap. That's not a legal discussion. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- mortigi tempo Pēteris Krišjānis ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org
Re: [OSM-talk] Howto add simple push pin or marker to OpenStreetMap ?
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Could perhaps someone add a Marker-Permalink-Link on the map? Would increase the usability a *lot*! :-) Ummm, Patches Welcome ? ;-) We have something better: The routing demo allows manipulation of multiple markers. http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/?lat=47.43117lon=3.46952zoom=5layers=B000FTFTTmarkers=!52.37101,4.90011!41.98003,2.82021v=motorcarfast=1 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Software Freedom Day 2010 Pretoria
Ok, I got openmtbmap working with mapsource 6. Routing works, but is limited to +- 30 km. The large printed maps did not get a lot of interest last time, so I'm just going to use the old one. I still need to find a way to handle questions regarding StreetView: Umm, no, it's not us, If you look at this route [1], you will see that it just makes things more confusing. Actually, it's quite misleading. And it's of limited use for property buyers because so many properties are sectional title or part of gated communities [1]: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=Twig,+Pretoria,+Gauteng,+South+Africadaddr=Freesia+Street,+Pretoria,+Gauteng,+South+Africahl=engeocode=mra=lssll=-25.766967,28.297434sspn=0.028677,0.038581ie=UTF8ll=-25.767112,28.296543spn=0.003237,0.009645z=17layer=ccbll=-25.767025,28.29686panoid=eh74jXX-6_bUwKzolWMnrAcbp=11,90,,0,5 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 16 August 2010 16:01, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: There is also this map: http://openmtbmap.x-nation.de/maps/africa/mtbsouth_africa_and_lesotho.exe My personal preference is: (German but easy enough to navigate) http://download.raumbezug.eu/garmin/osmGarmin.php?id=3 http://www.raumbezug.eu/ag/internet/osmGarmin.htm Another question came up at the Wikipedia Chapter discussion and is sure to come up again: Android users in South African can currently only download free apps from the app store. Is there an app for them ? Good few listed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android Android port of Navit sounds interesting. / Grant ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
[OSM-Talk-ZA] Software Freedom Day 2010 Pretoria
We've been invited back to software freedom day and I said yes. It's on 18 September at the Department of Science and Techonology on the CSIR campus. http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Africa/SouthAfrica/Pretoria David Richfield offered to run a Wikipedia stand / stall / booth. A local chapter is being formed. So Heinz and John, you are welcome to show up / help out, but it is not really required. This year I want to download all or most of the South African tiles (tileCache??) and view them offline with OpenLayers. Regards, Nic ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-Talk-ZA] Tagging in the Table Mountain National Park
Hello Bryan, I would tag them as motorcar=private because it will tell me that (some) motorcars can physically go there, but only after being granted permission. But the wiki and the international community are now using the access tags much more to reflect the legal status. This makes it impossible to correctly tag some uniquely South African features. For example a road can be a legal right of way, but the house owners association may have erected a fence across it. In some cases the exact legal status may even be subject to pending litigation. To make OSM easy for ordinary people, I would much rather that we adopt a different test to determine 'access': Would you advise a person whom you don't know to use that road ? (So it includes physical attributes, legal attributes, safety etc) The human mind is hot wired to answer that question. Even preschool children will often get it right. Regards, Nic On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Bryan Devine gr8scot...@gmail.com wrote: Glen Thanks for the input. In the TMNP only Cape Nature or someone with permission from them can take a vehicle onto the jeep tracks. Hence my motorcar=no suggestion. The roads are gravel tracks in the forest and fynbos, so I think that fits pretty well with the forest/agricultural idea of a track. Quite a number of the jeep tracks are presently tagged access=private, but to my mind this is public land that can only be accessed by vehicles with permission. Sorry about the confusion caused by the capitals, but my email client insists on automatically capitalising the start of a sentence. Just to confuse things further, a main path in TMNP is called the Contour Path. So my suggestion was to name paths and tracks that do in fact have official names. Also Skeleton George, Nursery Ravine, etc. On 7/23/10, Glen Wilson 1tinsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bryan Tagging the Jeep tracks as motorcar=no suggests that you can't take your 4x4 that way, ever. If this is the case then highway http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Highway=path http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dpath /might /be more appropriate. A while ago somebody (Nic?) mentioned that highway=track was intended more for agricultural or forestry use but I can't remember exactly what they said was better. If you have information on the trail difficulty, add sac_scale=* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:sac_scale to the footways. *I* think naming the ways contour path (lower case) indicates a generic name whereas Contour Path is a proper noun (and a more official name). I'd say tag the ways as highway=footway (because capital Highway=footway is not the same thing[1]) but I'm sure you know that already. Later Glen (Tinshack) [1] See Q A on the Adding Tags http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.4.1 page of the Beginners Guide on the Wiki. On 2010/07/23 04:56 PM, Bryan Devine wrote: I've been fortunate in being given a set of (non-copyright) gpx files that covers almost every safe footpath and jeep track in the TMNP. These have been uploaded into the traces database and I'm presently tracing them on to the map. However, I've come up against a variety of tags that have been applied to existing tracks and footpaths. In the interest of conformity within the TMNP (and possibly other national parks), could I get some input on a tagging scheme that I can apply throughout. My suggestions are: Jeep Tracks: Highway=track access=permissive motorcar=no bicycle=no foot=yes surface=gravel name= Contour path or whatever if the track has a name Footpaths Highway=footway Foot=yes Name= Contour path or whatever if the track has a name Bryan -- Sent from my mobile device ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za ___ Talk-ZA mailing list Talk-ZA@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
Re: [OSM-talk] visualizing relation on gosmore
Hello Sergio, I made a small change to the rebuild process that should solve it: When a route relation has a 'ref', all ways belonging to it will have that ref string appended to their string data. So now you can search for that ref, it will appear many times, and after you select it, all ways that are part of the route will be highlighted (pink outline). If you want me to update spain.zip, please email me off-list. You will not need a new gosmore.exe Regards, NIc On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:43 AM, sergio sevillano sergiosevillano.m...@gmail.com wrote: wouldn't be nice to be able to visualize a route relation in gosmore, in a noname style. just when you input relation id. quite useful to visualize a route and compare to the gpx been recorded. s ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
