Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 19:55, Michal Migurski wrote: For what it's worth, I agree with Jeff and Paweł on this. If OSMF is going to be a big, beautiful mess it should own that and publish the CD for everyone to see. Anarchists gonna anarchate. If on the other hand we want strong leadership that can

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 21:01, Aun Yngve Johnsen wrote: This discussion is way out of hand. You guys screaming for publishing the C+D, didn't you see the answer from SimonPoole? They have asked lawyers about advise in publishing it, as well as releasing more information about it. It is not a sign of

Re: [OSM-talk] STFU

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 22:07, Paweł Paprota wrote: On 02/02/2013 10:23 PM, Chris Hill wrote: Threats to leave the project remind me of the bullshit thrown around during licence-change when hardly anyone actually had the balls to follow through. If people are so unhappy then go, but do so quickly and

Re: [OSM-talk] STFU

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods
On 02/02/2013 23:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: The OSMF board discussed this issue at their F2F meeting in Berlin last November (meeting minutes: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_Minutes_2012-11-03). At the meeting we churned through several variations on the topic of who is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 01/02/2013 16:52, Cartinus wrote: Huh? What's really touchy is the osmf being secretive about something. If you got a letter from some lawyer, then the only way you might get all the volunteers in this project to comply is telling them what is happening. Original Message

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 01/02/2013 18:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/2/1 Simon Poole si...@osmfoundation.org: issue with respect to the trademark GEOCODE owned by Geocode, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia, USA. There are likely to be further related edits and changes both on the wiki and the help site. Please do

Re: [OSM-talk] a license violation?

2013-01-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/01/2013 10:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/1/2 Robin Paulson ro...@bumblepuppy.org: i was looking for unusual uses of osm data, and found this: http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue Oops! We couldn’t find that page. Took a quick look at the store homepage and clicked

Re: [OSM-talk] a license violation?

2013-01-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/01/2013 15:20, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de mailto:o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Am 02.01.2013 11:41, Robin Paulson wrote: http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue osm is mentioned on the web site, but not

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-04 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 04/11/2012 16:48, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: In my opinion, copying from Google Street View is still a legally dubious thing to do. There is no formal licensing agreement with Google that I know of. It is perfectly fine to capture data by taking pictures yourself, but relying on Google Street

Re: [OSM-talk] Abuse of OSM data / censorship in Germany

2012-01-31 Thread Christopher Woods
If there was once HTML at the URL (not just images) it's long gone. If it's always been just a directory index, mark it up as another of SAV's near-legendary false alarms. ;-) (IIRC a defs update false pozzed the entire google-analytics.com domain last year) Chris _ From: Barnett,

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: Place Station ou just Place?

2009-09-17 Thread Christopher Woods
I concur, railway stations most often don't have Station after their name so they should be recorded as-is on the primary signage / on-platform signage (if people can be bothered to doublecheck the platforms). Using the National Rail site should be doable to acquire the definitive station names,

Re: [OSM-talk] Beta testers required for new Windows Mobile OSMClient

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher Woods
-Original Message- From: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com Sent: 13 February 2009 07:14 To: George Styles Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Beta testers required for new Windows

Re: [Talk-GB] London's Shortest Street

2009-02-10 Thread Christopher Woods
...and York probably wins the prize for the shortest street with the silliest name: http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/4437062 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma_Gate To be honest, I've always fancied living on either Australia Road, Commonwealth Avenue, India Way, Canada Way

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Christopher Woods
BTW - I hope you can even _read_ this mail because it's PGP/MIME signed). Quite legible ;) Outlook copes far better than I think some give it credit for! (and I'd like to see Thunderbird seamlessly sync with my WinMo smartphone, the last time I tried it as an alternative it munged half of my

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Christopher Woods
And have you been convinced sending the author two messages...makes sense? or that the default behavior is a private response to a public conversation... I have even found direct emails quite close to rude.(mostly when the responder actually was rude) the default reply should simply

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-09-01 Thread Christopher Woods
The default responder to public conversation venues needs to be to just that ... There's no way OSM could change that default, it's up to your MUA vendor. The buttons you're currently using are reply (with an implied to author) and reply to all, not reply (default) and reply

Re: [OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

2008-08-31 Thread Christopher Woods
iirc, the problem was caused by non-standard (but 'simpler') behaviour of e-mail clients/mailing lists, and people becoming accustomed to that behaviour rather than the standard way of doing things. i imagine microsoft were involved somewhere, but others are probably as bad. now some

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS receiver orientation

2008-07-26 Thread Christopher Woods
On Jul 26, 2008, at 13:37 , Franc Carter wrote: My entirely annecdotal experience has been that my TomTom 910 takes longer to get a fix when I am moving than stationary. I have an external aerial, so the movement should be the main determinent The same for me with my Hamlet GPS

Re: [OSM-talk] Navman B10 SiRFstarIII receiver - any good?

2008-07-02 Thread Christopher Woods
_ From: D Tucny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2008 04:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Navman B10 SiRFstarIII receiver - any good? 2008/6/20 Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This isn't strictly OSM-related, but I do use my

[OSM-talk] Navman B10 SiRFstarIII receiver - any good?

2008-06-19 Thread Christopher Woods
This isn't strictly OSM-related, but I do use my Bluetooth GPS unit to take tracks with my smartphone, so I suppose it applies. I'm just looking at this Navman unit with the SS3 chipset, it's got good reviews and apparently it's quite sensitive - but more importantly, is it accurate? Does the

[OSM-talk] Participating in TAH

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
I have a handful of machines at my disposal (less than ten but more than three!) that I'm interested in using to contribute towards rendering tiles. However, I can't find an easy way of signing up, I can't attach to the project in BOINC and there's not much help on the TAH site. Can someone get

Re: [OSM-talk] Participating in TAH

2008-03-26 Thread Christopher Woods
Install guide is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tiles%40home/Install_Guide Christ on a bike, I saw the link to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] pages and I totally forgot to check the rest of that wiki page. I've had a bit of a 'special' day today. Thanks all ;)

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] new proposal - graveyard

2008-02-04 Thread Christopher Woods
i've noticed that there are two tags for places where people are buried - cemetery and graveyard, with an ambiguous distinction between the two this proposal is to make one obsolete http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/graveyard comments are welcome I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] 1st Birmingham Mico Mapping Event - Inside the Ringroad

2008-01-24 Thread Christopher Woods
That sounds ace - I only live down Hagley Road, so I think I'll have to attend this! I hope I can struggle out of bed on Sunday morning... I'll only have returned from a week in France on the morning of the 2nd (annual music industry trade show down in Cannes) but this sounds like an absolutely