On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
cautious than we need to be. Why do we consider what's written on a
street sign to be a fact, but the same words written on a map to be
copyrightable? And many similar examples.
A map is a collection of facts, which
I've used 'smell' on the proposal; I think more people will know that word!
As an aside, there's a playground viewer app here:
http://ant.homelinux.net/maps/index.html
which shows (as blue icons) any playgrounds created with the new
schema. It's experimental at the moment, working with a
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:54 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
cautious than we need to be. Why do we consider what's written on a
street sign to be a fact, but the same words written on a map to be
copyrightable? And many similar examples.
A map is a collection of facts, which
On 5/17/10 5:38 AM, Andre Engels wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:54 AM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
cautious than we need to be. Why do we consider what's written on a
street sign to be a fact, but the same words written on a map to be
copyrightable? And many similar
Personally I'm starting to use multipolygons more and more - define a
boundary once and reuse is as many times as needed by the landuses
either side.
Steve
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From: Pieren
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Landuse border
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm kind of considering if this is right or not - if a road is the divider
between two landuses, is it still best to unglue it from the landuse(s) and
2010/5/17 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
it doesn't seem to work for e.g. amenity=drinking_water
(you list just Osmarender, but it is also displayed in Mapnik, the
cyclemap and JOSM and probably others as well).
cheers,
Martin
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I was using the OSM maps for my city on my Garmin recently and when I
listed the parking POIs I noticed a whole slew of parking showing up in
there; mainly unnamed.. It got me thinking why those are in there but
then it dawned on me that in my area I've started adding in the parking
lots and
2010/5/16 Zeke Farwell ezeki...@gmail.com:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
IMHO yes, as natural is mainly about landcover (what you physically
encounter on the spot) while landuse is about usage.
If you want do some extremely detailed
2010/5/17 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Jonas Minnberg sas...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm kind of considering if this is right or not - if a road is the divider
between two landuses, is it still best to unglue it from the landuse(s) and
move it into one or the other?
On 17 May 2010 21:00, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote:
the other issue, of course, is when the map contains mistakes, which may
be intentional
on the part of the map maker. in this latter case, they are likely there
to create the copyright
claim.
Again, it depends on the
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.netwrote:
the other issue, of course, is when the map contains mistakes, which may
be intentional on the part of the map maker.
And then what about when the map mistakes become the commonly accepted name
of the road, and then
The ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) just released
a data set of communication transponder locations for TV and radio
station, a lot of these share the same mast/tower however this
proposed feature suggests using multiple nodes to indicate multiple
transponders but this doesn't
On 18 May 2010 13:05, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
Separate entities should be represented by separate OSM elements.
Relations are groups of objects in which each object may take on a
specific role, so I don't think this is appropriate here.
You are grouping
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote:
From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Parking:
The distinction between public parking lots, customer parking lots
(such as at cinemas etc.), and private parking lots (such as for staff
in a business park) is handled with
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