Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-07 Thread Sean Horgan
Hi Sam, Seems like some great work. I'm relatively new to contributing to OSM so pardon what may be some ignorant questions that I have. 1. How does the spreadsheet fit in with the current process of managing Map Features (RFC Draft, Proposal, Vote, etc)? 2. How will new users to OSM find this

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-06 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/5 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not covered by copyright in general. we could fight over textual descriptions, but the list of tages and basic information is not seen as a copyright-able

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-06 Thread Sam Vekemans
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:46 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/10/5 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not covered by copyright in general. we could fight over textual

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-05 Thread Sam Vekemans
Go ahead and add it :) I set the spreadsheet to free and open access to everyone to edit as they wish.. Do what you want with it, i no longer take ownership of it. And hey, if it gets too ugly i'll remove myslef as an editor :l) I have my origional that im fiddling with offline. cheers,

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-05 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not covered by copyright in general. we could fight over textual descriptions, but the list of tages and basic information is not seen as a copyright-able information. Otherwise you would never be able to use a header file for

Re: [Tagging] SchemaTroll 2.01 - OSM OpenMapFeatures Spreadsheet - Available for edits

2010-10-05 Thread Sam Vekemans
So one application of this, is to create an xml file which has all the ! -This is a map feature type tags. The Potlatch file is by far the best xml schema that i have seen, so it shouldn't be that hard to create a universal version of it grabbing from the (or the new) spreadsheet. Sam On 10/5/10,