[OSM-talk] vehicle fleet tracking system

2010-09-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, A person has a fleet of vehicles and wants to implement a tracking system using OSM for his fleet of taxis. He wants to know where each vehicle is at any given time as well as find the nearest free vehicle to any given point and also calculate the closest routes for his vehicles to follow. So

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Avis
Rob Myers writes: >http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/odc-discuss/2010-August/000291.html > >My understanding of the answer is that the data isn't what you are >licencing under BY-SA. You are licencing the originality/creativity >involved in making the produced work. This depends on some assumpt

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-02 Thread Rob Myers
On 09/02/2010 04:16 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: There was some discussion on how the group wanting to move should be measured, by number of people, by number of edits/contributions possibly only measured over a certain period, but AFAIK no consensus has been reached there. The idea is that people w

Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: "Ed Avis" To: Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons Grant Slater firefishy.com> writes: The vote has been dropped, so don't expect to be asked to vote. It was an OSMF Members vote I'l

Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Loach
Ed wrote: > IIRC, the choice offered was 'I approve the process' or 'I do > not approve the > process'. It wasn't quite clear whether OSMF members were > being asked to vote > on the licence change itself, or just to express satisfaction > with the actions > taken and planned by the licence worki

Re: [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Ed Avis
Grant Slater firefishy.com> writes: >>The vote has been dropped, so don't expect to be asked to vote. >It was an OSMF Members vote I'll quote the first line: >"In December 2009, OpenStreetMap Foundation members were asked whether >they agreed or disagreed with a proposal to change the OpenSt

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-02 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Biber wrote: > On Thu, 2 September, 2010 11:22:54 AM, andrzej zaborowski gmail.com> wrote: >> Besides, there's nothing in the Google Terms of Service which says >> "you may not make use of the facts you learn by using this website". >> That'd just be silly. Not to mention unconscionable,