[OSM-dev] API 0.6 wiki page

2009-04-19 Thread Lars Francke
Hi,

I have updated quite a lot on these two pages:
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Version_0.6
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6
(changed from a redirect to its own page, not complete)

My main changes are on the API 0.6 page. I tried to begin work on
converting this 'discussion' and 'change explanation' page to a real
documentation page of the API. I cross checked everything with the
Ruby code and I hope I haven't missed any error codes or other
important things. I have one problem though (apart from a lot of work
;-) ): The table of contents is verry cluttered now but I can't find a
way to exclude the subheadings of level 4 and greater from the ToC.

And as I am not a native speaker I'm sure that there are a lot of
errors/mistakes - so please feel free to take a look and correct it :)

I documented what I found in the code. This sometimes varied from the
documentation on the wiki page but as the API will be live in a few
hours I think this is the way to go. The wiki page can be updated when
the code is updated.

I'm off to bed but I plan to continue my work tomorrow.

Cheers,
Lars

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Re: [OSM-dev] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
Stefan de Konink wrote:
> After a few upload problems, a new torrent is available.
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm#Bittorrent

Last 0.5 bittorrent now available:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4858504



Stefan

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Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-legal-talk] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

Greg Troxel wrote:

> Of course I could join legal, but I think it's probably good for the
> health of the project for everyone to see an abstract.

I agree that this would be good but it would need a very balanced and 
unbiased person to write it, because the role of "writer of abstracts to 
the masses" carries quite some political power.

It would be relatively easy to find some people to summarize the status 
quo as "ODbL introduction is going along nicely, slowed down a bit but 
basically proceeding to plan, everyone does their bit and we're moving 
in the right direction, great people doing an awesome job", and it would 
be equally easy to find people summarizing the status quo as "major 
showstoppers still unclear and likely to remain so, legal opinion split, 
ODbL dead in the water".

The difficulty is finding out which of these descriptions is true, or 
more likely, where in between these two reality lies...

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Re: [OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

ahmed2007 wrote:
> I am interested to use mapnik to have a slippy map of Tunisia.
> I have put the data in postgris , and i obtained this tables :
>**)  tunisia_administrative
>**)  tunisia_coastline
>**)  tunisia_highway
>**)  tunisia_natural
>**)  tunisia_poi

This sounds as if you used some predefined shapefile to populate your 
PostGIS database. Don't to that if you want Mapnik rendering. Obtain a 
.osm file for tunisia instead and run it through osm2pgsql to import it.

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Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-legal-talk] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

Francis Davey wrote:
> No, but nevertheless no. I'll review go over the posting history. Thanks.

;-)

If you use Google to search the legal-talk list for the words 
"browsewrap" and "clickwrap" (sometimes hyphenated) you will find a lot 
of the relevant discussion.

I'll try to put it in as little words as possible:

1. If we could be sure our data was copyrighted then we would not really 
have a problem since, as you point out, everybody would have to adhere 
to our licensing terms to legally use our data.

2. We're pretty sure that we cannot be sure our data is copyrighted, so 
we try to enforce our license through the concept of database rights 
which is reasonably well established in Europe; even un-copyrighted data 
gains a protection comparable to copyright, and again, our license has 
to be adhered to by users.

3. Headache comes from places without database rights (like the US) 
where anyone getting hold of our data could simply do anything with it. 
Even for those who think that our data should be put in the Public 
Domain anyway (e.g. me), this is undesirable because it would create a 
wholly different situation in the US than we have in Europe.

4. Because of this, the ODbL tries to be a contract and a license at the 
same time, forcing users in places like the US to adhere to our 
"license" through contract law.

5. It is somewhat unclear, and one of the questions posed on 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues, what 
legal consequences would arise from some "bad guy" stripping away the 
contract information and republishing our data in a non-database 
country; the worst case for us would probably be if this would lead to 
third parties being able to use our data totally unrestricted with 
impunity, even if they know the data comes from OSM.

Bye
Frederik

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Re: [OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 19 de Abril de 2009, ahmed soua escribió:
> Yes i have installed mapnik 0.6.0.
> But the generate_tiles.py script no.

Then you need to download the generate_tiles.py and the generate_image.py 
scripts, from the openstreetmap subversion server.

If you're using linux, please check-out these scripts by running:

svn co http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/mapnik

You will find a README file. It contains instructions on how to use these 
scripts to render tiles.

Once you have the tiles ready, you'll have to use OpenLayers to serve them 
through a web browser.


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Re: [OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread ahmed soua
Hi all,
Yes i have installed mapnik 0.6.0.
But the generate_tiles.py script no. what its function??
What are the steps to make tunisia slippy map.
I will be very grateful .




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Re: [OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Domingo, 19 de Abril de 2009, ahmed soua escribió:
> Hi all,
> I am interested to use mapnik to have a slippy map of Tunisia.
> I have put the data in postgris ,[...]

Do you have mapnik up and running? Do you have the generate_tiles.py script 
from the OSM SVN server?

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[OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread ahmed2007

Hi all,
I am interested to use mapnik to have a slippy map of Tunisia.
I have put the data in postgris , and i obtained this tables :
   **)  tunisia_administrative
   **)  tunisia_coastline
   **)  tunisia_highway
   **)  tunisia_natural
   **)  tunisia_poi
 i am asking about the next step, because the manuel : "How to make a local 
open street map speak about a world map", i didn't found the solution to make 
the same initiative to make tunisia map.
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[OSM-dev] How to make a slippy map of tunisia

2009-04-19 Thread ahmed soua
Hi all,
I am interested to use mapnik to have a slippy map of Tunisia.
I have put the data in postgris , and i obtained this tables :
   **)  tunisia_administrative
   **)  tunisia_coastline
   **)  tunisia_highway
   **)  tunisia_natural
   **)  tunisia_poi
 i am asking about the next step, because the manuel : "How to make a local
open street map speak about a world map", i didn't found the solution to
make the same initiative to make tunisia map.

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Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-legal-talk] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Troxel

Frederik Ramm  writes:

> Everything you say is true, but unless you have just joined the project 
> you must be aware that the new license being contemplated - the Open 
> Database License - rests heavily on the European idea of database 
> rights, and tries to supplant them by a contract for jurisdictions that 
> have no "sui generis" database protection.
>
> A contract of course requires agreement by those who are party to it 
> before it can be of legal relevance.
>
> (Maybe you're reading this on dev and are unaware of the 1000+ postings 
> in the previous year on legal-talk about the matter...?)

As a random data point, I read your note on talk but am not subscribed
to legal-t...@.  It would be nice to have a monthly summary of where the
licensing discussion is and a sense of what the debate is posted to
t...@.  It would particularly interesting to see the discussion around
expected impacts to free distribution of planet dumps.  Of course I
could join legal, but I think it's probably good for the health of the
project for everyone to see an abstract.




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Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-legal-talk] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi,

Francis Davey wrote:
> In almost all jurisdictions various information rights are property
> rights, which means they operate against everyone. The licence is a
> permission to use (say a work) without violation of the rights holders
> rights. I.e. the default is total restriction, which may only be
> bypassed via the licence. It is irrelevant whether a use of the
> information is aware of the licence since it is permissive not
> restrictive (although it may be constructed by stating exceptions to a
> generally given permission).

Everything you say is true, but unless you have just joined the project 
you must be aware that the new license being contemplated - the Open 
Database License - rests heavily on the European idea of database 
rights, and tries to supplant them by a contract for jurisdictions that 
have no "sui generis" database protection.

A contract of course requires agreement by those who are party to it 
before it can be of legal relevance.

(Maybe you're reading this on dev and are unaware of the 1000+ postings 
in the previous year on legal-talk about the matter...?)

Bye
Frederik

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