[Talk-transit] Should railway station relations include bus stops?

2009-09-09 Thread Frankie Roberto
Hi all, Last question of the night from me. I've been creating relations for railway stations (see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_train_stations) and just noticed, when doing Marylebone ( http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/238413), that there's already a

Re: [Talk-transit] Should railway station relations include bus stops?

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Wood
NaPTAN provides relations for stations (or at least it should, I've yet to check), in most cases, this will contain the station node, and entrance nodes, and child relations eg, the stops outside of it. I've yet to import them, but I do have all the backreferences stored to do so. On 10/09/2009,

Re: [talk-ph] request for daily snapshot of OSM Philippine data

2009-09-09 Thread maning sambale
I downloaded the philippine snapshot and it seems the whole archipelago is not covered. The cloudmade extract uses this boundingbox http://downloads.cloudmade.com/asia/philippines/philippines.poly On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, maning sambaleemmanuel.samb...@gmail.com wrote: Big thanks to

[OSM-talk-be] gebruik gegevens giswest databank ?

2009-09-09 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Hallo, Ik ben nog nieuw in dit project, dus ... hallo iedereen. Een vraagje: Ik heb deze week eens een babbeltje gehad met iemand van de gemeente bij ons om een lijst te krijgen van alle straten in de gemeente inclusief GPS-gegevens. Hij zie dat hij die eventueel wel kon verkrijgen, op

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Openstreetmap Foundation: the Belgian Chapter

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Van den Borre
Hi all, 2009/9/1 eMerzh merz...@gmail.com: I think also that an asbl / vzw is a good thing for OSM in belgium. Some thoughts: * Please define the goals of the organisation _very_ well. * A dry run without the formal structure, but pretending to have them may prove _very_ interesting when it

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Openstreetmap Foundation: the Belgian Chapter

2009-09-09 Thread ivom
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Mark Van den Borre wrote: 2009/9/1 eMerzh merz...@gmail.com: I think also that an asbl / vzw is a good thing for OSM in belgium. Some thoughts: * Please define the goals of the organisation _very_ well. The goals are currently somehow stable. It is not wise to make all

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@... writes: OK, I think we have a potential case of GMaps + OSM data here... ... By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common. Do you think there might be something wrong in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Jukka Rahkonen escribió: By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common. Do you think there might be something wrong in doing so? I do. I think that their DB is a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Stefan Baebler
Look also at the positive site: This mechanism might be in place to prevent a sudden surge of fantasy streets (or even whole new cities) popping up all over OSM, vandalizing our data. Of course, this doesn't make all things all right. Their final OSM derivate is a subset of OSM (intersection of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Stefan Baebler escribió: Look also at the positive site: This mechanism might be in place to prevent a sudden surge of fantasy streets (or even whole new cities) popping up all over OSM, vandalizing our data. ... or to detect easter eggs in big G's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Simone Cortesi
2009/9/9 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: ... or to detect easter eggs in big G's data. And I want that list of (possible) easter eggs. Iván, there is no reason trying to catch all the easter eggs. When you find one, and report it, they move it somewhere else. -- -S

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Stefan Baebler escribió: [...] Yes, and then we will unleash our team of high profile lawyers [...] You mean IF we can snatch them out of the pub. ;-) -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es Un ordenador no es un

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/9 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: OK, so it seems that they're using GMaps as the background, and OSM as the actual street data provider. See: http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/MonopolyCityStreets_1252505633167.png

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Millar
I think that OSM is entitled to ask if the Creative Commons license has been complied with. The Monopoly City Streets game is produced by Tribal DDB which is part of Hasbro Inc., one of the biggest toy manufacturers in the world. They own, among others, Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Matt Amos
On 9/9/09, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@... writes: By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common. I think that their DB is a derivative work of the OSM data and that share-alike

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Ed Avis escribió: Even if that is true, they are not distributing their database to anyone else. They are ... to the players, in the form of lists of streets owned by one player and whatnot. -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Peter Millarpeter.mil...@yahoo.com wrote: I think that OSM is entitled to ask if the Creative Commons license has been complied with. The Monopoly City Streets game is produced by Tribal DDB which is part of Hasbro Inc., one of the biggest toy manufacturers

Re: [OSM-talk] source=(survey, yahoo, gps...)

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/9 Anthony o...@inbox.org: If the way lines up with the GPS trace, the GPS trace was used as the source of data.  If it doesn't, it wasn't (or it has been changed). Am I missing some reason that's not correct? You're assuming only one type of source was used to generate a way, when

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any evidence of people mistakenly selecting it

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Jack Stringer
We are diverting away from the original question. Is it OK to use Google Streetview data to check/confirm the data we have? Clearly its not OK to use the images to gather information for use in OSM due to derived data part of the copyright. Jack Stringer

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: I had to revert changes for someone this week who specifically said to me that's what had happened - he didn't realize he was editing live data. People don't read stuff in front of them. Well, you can't completely idiot-proof these things, and it's a great shame to

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 09 Sep 2009 3:21:02 pm Jack Stringer wrote: We are diverting away from the original question. Is it OK to use Google Streetview data to check/confirm the data we have? no - for all the reasons already mentioned. It is not ok to use it for anything whatsoever to do with OSM. --

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Anthony wrote: Eh, I'd take on Google pro se (or with the help of free EFF lawyers or the like) over the issue of the ToS, and based on US law I'm pretty sure I'd win. However, I'm aware that other users of OSM don't have the benefit US-jurisdictional copyright law with respect to factual

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article, and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse in another database. Is there a difference between 1) using one fact from a

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/09/09 11:46, Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article, and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse in another database. Is there a

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Kenneth Gonsalveslaw...@au-kbc.org wrote: no - for all the reasons already mentioned. It is not ok to use it for anything whatsoever to do with OSM. First, all I have seen here are just opinions. Second, copyright laws and definition of derivative work depends

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Because (in the EU) Database Right kicks in and prohibits substantial extraction. Tom If someone starts to copy the photos themselves, yes you are right. But here, we speak about reading a street sign on a picture, not copying

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/09/09 11:55, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/09/09 11:46, Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article, and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Tom Hughes
On 09/09/09 12:07, Pieren wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Because (in the EU) Database Right kicks in and prohibits substantial extraction. If someone starts to copy the photos themselves, yes you are right. But here, we speak about reading a

[OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Liz
copied from rss feed for diary entries for attention of list Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok? [Don't have access to mailing list atm] ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: First, all I have seen here are just opinions. [...] There are some questions here : is the content of a photo copyrighted like the photo itself ? May I humbly refer people to http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 which deals principally with aerial photography, not

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: copied from rss feed for diary entries for attention of list Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok? [Don't have access to mailing list atm]

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Wood
2009/9/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: copied from rss feed for diary entries for attention of list Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok?

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: On 09/09/09 11:55, Tom Hughes wrote: On 09/09/09 11:46, Roy Wallace wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk   wrote: There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Woodgrand.edgemas...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, the coordinates should surely not be in wikipedia either? Is commercial reuse allowed on wikipedia licence? I don't know and I'm not a wikipedia contributor. I just asked them where they found the

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com The example of a newspaper is a bad example. You cannot copy a text writen by somebody else. This is because it is his own creation. If you write yourself an article, It is allowed to mention some parts of an other article, small extracts are allowed as

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:18:33PM +0100, Brian Quinion wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Valent Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using address interpolation for the first time so I would like to ask if somebody can check if I did it ok or if there are some errors:

Re: [OSM-talk] Seoul

2009-09-09 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/9 Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk I don't disagree. However, the convention has been established, and it's not entirely a bad thing. It means I can contribute to the map (in English) and I can read the map at the OSM site (because Mapnik renders the name=* tag, not a

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Obligatory IANAL disclaimer. Let's be honest, we would like to avoid it as much as possible not because copyright law is in fact in our side (*checking* facts with other, commercial sources IS NOT copying and IS NOT covered by copyright law, period). We want to avoid just because we *think*

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Mike N.
I'd suggest moving all the following tags addr:city = Osijek addr:country = 385 addr:postcode = 31000 addr:street = Starigradska to the way (rather than the individual nodes). And I'd suggest that addr:country = 385 is unlikely to be understood. No! Please don't do that. That makes

Re: [OSM-talk] Seoul

2009-09-09 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Actually, the convention is that objects should be tagged with four names. The 'name=*' tag is Hangul followed by English in brackets. This is the most important, as it is the 'fallback' tag for rendering a

Re: [OSM-talk] Seoul

2009-09-09 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/9/9 Gustav Foseid gust...@gmail.com How do we deal with all other languages than English that does not use Hangul characters? Do we need to tag all these place names with all language codes? name=* should contain the native language value name:en=* should contain the English translation

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/9 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: If someone starts to copy the photos themselves, yes you are right. But here, we speak about reading a street sign on a picture, not copying the picture. Legal arguments aside, there is very few street signs I've seen on google street view that I can read

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Loach
No! Please don't do that. That makes it harder to use. Then there are two possible ways, where data can be. Please use only addr:interpolation on the way and everything else on the nodes. Which seems to be the opposite of what the section on the Karlsruhe interpolation wiki section says:

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Brian Quinion
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/489432179 I'd suggest moving all the following tags addr:city = Osijek addr:country = 385 addr:postcode = 31000 addr:street = Starigradska No! Please don't do that. That makes it harder to use. Then there are two possible ways, where data can be.

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Karran
2009/9/9 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: Back in March, Ed Parsons pointed out [0] that since StreetView images are Google-owned, if someone asked nicely-enough we could get them to give us a license to explicitly map based on the streetview images (similar to the explicit license we have with

[OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/graveyard This page is old/unfinished and very ambiguous. Can somebody make clear how to tag cemeteries, and how to name them correctly? If I have polygon do I add name= to polygon or do I add a point in the middle of cemetery with

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Valent Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/graveyard This page is old/unfinished and very ambiguous. Can somebody make clear how to tag cemeteries, and how to name them correctly? If I have polygon do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
OK, so it seems that they're using GMaps as the background, and OSM as the actual street data provider. See: http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/MonopolyCityStreets_1252505633167.png http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/MapCompareGeofabrikTools_12525056572.png Still deserves some more

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Karran
Noticed in the archives[1] that my mail was chopped off, so resending with some different characters around Ed's email: [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/041753.html 2009/9/9 Dan Karran d...@karran.net: 2009/9/9 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: Back in March, Ed

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: copied from rss feed for diary entries for attention of list Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok? [Don't have access to mailing list atm]

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Jochen Topf
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 02:51:36PM +0100, Ed Loach wrote: No! Please don't do that. That makes it harder to use. Then there are two possible ways, where data can be. Please use only addr:interpolation on the way and everything else on the nodes. Which seems to be the opposite of what

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Avis
Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com writes: Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok? After analysis, it seems that a bot is making a massive import of copyrighted data from the IGN in France. I sent a mail to data

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Avis
Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com writes: Check this out: http://blog.monopolycitystreets.com/2009/09/almost-there.html Hmph, all the news reporting has been 'Google Maps' this and 'Google' that... I hadn't seen any article mentioning OSM. Then again, from this screenshot:

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread David Muir Sharnoff
Perhaps the OSM database should be moved out of the EU to a location that doesn't suffer from a Database Rights law.Extracting from no-EU data source by people not in the EU would then be okay for sure. Extending the Database Rights law to extracting turn restrictions from Streetview is a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Avis
Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@... writes: By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common. I think that their DB is a derivative work of the OSM data and that share-alike should apply. Even if that is true, they

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Ed Avis escribió: Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets that players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath. That seems a bit lame. They are. More info at legal@ and IRC. --

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets that players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath. That seems a bit lame. I'm playing it right now, and this appears to be

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Childs
2009/9/9 Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Perhaps they are using OSM for data, dividing up the world into streets that players can buy and sell, but rendering the Google Maps tiles underneath. That seems a bit lame. I'm playing

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 9 Sep 2009, at 17:00, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Does the osmify bookmarklet http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/12/31/new-version-of-osmify-bookmarklet/ work in the Monopoly game? No. It appears that they might be using a special

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Jonathan Bennett
David Muir Sharnoff wrote: Perhaps the OSM database should be moved out of the EU to a location that doesn't suffer from a Database Rights law.Extracting from no-EU data source by people not in the EU would then be okay for sure. Great! Let us know when you've secured the funding for this

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Shaun McDonald
On 9 Sep 2009, at 17:16, Ian Dees wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: The game is built using Flash so the osmify bookmarklet won't work as it needs the javascript api instead. The game is built entirely with JavaScript and HTML.

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Brian Quinion
that you can ignore tags on the way just doesn't work. Your advise Do you have numbers for that? There are, as of last Wednesday: 46899 uses with addr:street in this way I described 209340 uses with addr:street used to link a building outline to a street 2947067 uses with addr:street used to

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Bennettopenstreet...@jonno.cix.co.uk wrote: If the photos are geocoded -- which SV's are -- then you are deriving data from the whole product, both picture and location. This constitutes a database. While the law on this may be a grey area, it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Brian Quinion wrote: No, duplication is almost always bad (caching may be an exception). Inconsistent data is the enemy of all good database management *Inconsistent* data is surely not desirable, but *redundant* information may well have its place because it makes it easier to spot

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread wynndale
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 00:10, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Earl wrote: Richard - why do we still need this mode now you can save in Potlatch and groups of changes fit much better with changesets anyway? Lots of people still prefer it. I've not seen any

[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - greenhouse_horticulture

2009-09-09 Thread Polderrunner
This proposal for tagging land covered with greenhouses is now open for voting. Please visit the proposal and cast your vote at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/greenhouse_horticulture Polderrunner ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Valent Turkovic
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Brian Quinionopenstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Valent Turkovicvalent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm using address interpolation for the first time so I would like to ask if somebody can check if I did it ok or if

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2009 21:43, Valent Turkovic wrote: Is grave_yard tag used? I don't see it in JOSM. Why is the wiki so confusing for this simple thing to map. I think the original distinction was that a graveyard is the burial ground around a church, while a cemetery is a separate pice of land set

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread David Earl
On 09/09/2009 12:07, Pieren wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Tom Hughest...@compton.nu wrote: Because (in the EU) Database Right kicks in and prohibits substantial extraction. Tom If someone starts to copy the photos themselves, yes you are right. But here, we speak about reading a

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Sybren A . Stüvel
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:06:07PM +0100, David Earl wrote: we are potentially infringing the copyright of the map used to geolocate it. This applies even to CCbySA photos gelocated on flickr etc, unless they were located using OSM in the first place, or by GPS. But there is no way to know

Re: [OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ed Avise...@waniasset.com wrote: That is, unless Wikipedia and the OSM project disagree about the legal status of the information and whether it can be distributed under CC-BY-SA, in which case you need to ask the legal-talk mailing list... Wikipedia's policy on

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Legal arguments aside, there is very few street signs I've seen on google street view that I can read anyway, most of them seem to be blurred out, either intentionally, due to motion blur or jpeg like artifacts.

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Jennifer Campbell
It's certianly slow and buggy, I'm guessing that is down to demand. Overall I'd give it a grade C, could do better. But, this has got me thinking... (a very dangerous thing) If this can be done with OSM data, would it be possible to create a Transport Tycoon type game along similar lines?

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jennifer Campbell schreef: If this can be done with OSM data, would it be possible to create a Transport Tycoon type game along similar lines? Create bus routes and run trains, boats, trucks along real streets? The only thing that I doubt

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 10 de Septiembre de 2009, Jennifer Campbell escribió: It's certianly slow and buggy, I'm guessing that is down to demand. Overall I'd give it a grade C, could do better. I guess that it's overly unbalanced, given the surplus of players (and money) into the system. Not to talk about

Re: [OSM-talk] Vandalism/user error?

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:06 AM, wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: Why not go straight into Edit and Save and then have a button to go to Edit Live (one click to go there as now)? +1 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Address interpolation

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, andrzej zaborowskibalr...@gmail.com wrote: in this case I agree we should stick to the schema the way it was originally defined, good or bad, and I normally only use  addr:street on the nodes. +1 Another argument for doing that is that the addr:interpolation

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/10 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Legal arguments aside, there is very few street signs I've seen on google street view that I can read anyway, most of them seem to be blurred out, either intentionally, due

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 09/09/2009 22:00, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 21:43, Valent Turkovic wrote: Is grave_yard tag used? I don't see it in JOSM. Why is the wiki so confusing for this simple thing to map. I think the original distinction was that a graveyard is the burial ground around a church,

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Ulf Lamping
Craig Wallace schrieb: On 09/09/2009 22:00, David Earl wrote: On 09/09/2009 21:43, Valent Turkovic wrote: Is grave_yard tag used? I don't see it in JOSM. Why is the wiki so confusing for this simple thing to map. I think the original distinction was that a graveyard is the burial

Re: [OSM-talk] source=(survey, yahoo, gps...)

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:52 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/9 Anthony o...@inbox.org: If the way lines up with the GPS trace, the GPS trace was used as the source of data. If it doesn't, it wasn't (or it has been changed). Am I missing some reason that's not

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:39 PM, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Legal arguments aside, there is very few street signs I've seen on google street view that I can read anyway, most of them seem to be

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Craig Wallace
On 10/09/2009 01:21, Ulf Lamping wrote: Craig Wallace schrieb: Though around here, quite a few of the graveyards next to churches are operated by the council, and they are called placename Cemetery or similar. So what's the question now? The question is what's the difference

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, there is some other, more practical arguments why such checking isn't healthy thing to do. First of all, it's still just another source, not field check. Second, it is quite interesting what happens when you

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread David Muir Sharnoff
Has anyone set a letter to Google's legal department asking for clarification or permission? -Dave On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Anthonyo...@inbox.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, there is some other, more practical arguments why

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/10 Anthony o...@inbox.org: If the fact is binary (can turn left/can't turn left), then checking is equal to copying, right? It seems there is 2 things in play here, 1 deriving information aka copying, 2 and simply a fact that is being stated. It seems to me most copyright questions

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Ulf Lamping
Craig Wallace schrieb: On 10/09/2009 01:21, Ulf Lamping wrote: Well, it's simply a bad thing to indicate stuff by something that's nearby. What's nearby? 1m/10m/100m/1000m? Is it indicated by a place_of_worship, a building=church or xy? But why does it matter whether there is a church

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen Hope
What landuse would you recommend for a cemetery? It's been said that all land should be covered by some landuse or other. Like putting in Landuse=retail but also listing the individual shops as amenities. So should we put both landuse=cemetery and an amenity=cemetery/graveyard node, or are you

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/10 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Richard's contribution was interesting though, and obviously does have a basis in law (http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100). Just because someone quotes legal cases doesn't mean it's legal advice, I think OSM is to the point that it needs to seek

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:21 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/10 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Richard's contribution was interesting though, and obviously does have a basis in law (http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100). Just because someone quotes legal cases

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/10 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I'm not sure what help a lawyer is going to be - they're not going to be able to guarantee you that much of anything is 100% (or 99.9%) safe in 100% (or 95%, weighted by user-base) of jurisdictions, especially not for free.  As Richard says in the comments, In

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

2009-09-09 Thread John Smith
2009/9/10 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: But being able to say but lawyer X said we could! in court will not make you immune to lawsuits. Nonetheless, legal advice from a lawyer would be great - John, any ideas on how to get this? It doesn't make you immune, but if you follow the legal

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: By the way, I think a cemetery is better described as an amenity, not a landuse, as I think it is a useful and important facility moreso than an area of land used by people

Re: [OSM-talk-nl] OpenStreetMap Gebruikersdag tijdens Software Freedom Day bij Gendo, Amsterdam?

2009-09-09 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:40:58 +0200 you wrote: Philip, zou jij over de nieuwe mogelijkheden van yournaivagtion.org een presentatie willen verzorgen? Dat zou eventueel kunnen als Lambertus een redelijke set slides heeft (en die door mij wil laten gebruiken). Ik heb geen tijd om

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-09 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:18 +1000 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I've been doing that for a while (well, except waste_basket=*), so that's a +1 from me :) Any objections (from anyone) to adding these to

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-09 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:57:29 +1000 Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote: I need to research a little more to see where it's at. It builds on this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/unified_stoparea but I think there is a tidier page somewhere. Bah, I can't be

[talk-au] TomTom Anounces an Open Source GPS Technology

2009-09-09 Thread Andrew Laughton
Slashdot has an interesting item; http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2216255/TomTom-Anounces-an-Open-Source-GPS-Technology?art_pos=1 *According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent

Re: [Talk-br] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Claudomiro Nascimento Junior
Realmente foi a febre do dia. Eles falaram em mais de 1,7 milhões de visitantes... Pena que o OSM não foi muito citado na cobertura jornalística, mas só o pequeno link na tela já deve atrair bastante gente para o projeto... On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Junior, Claudomiro

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