From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
I also didn't see any consultation on this topic. Just another fait
accompli.
The pull request and automatic mail to the
Whoops - resending to the right talk@ list
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote:
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
http://lists.osm.org/pipermail/talk/2013-July/067499.html (in reply to
Andrew Errington)
Okay, so you even have to read all threads, even if you don't find them
insteresting anymore...
My
From: Maarten Deen [mailto:md...@xs4all.nl]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 2:57 AM
To: t...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Upgraded map controls
On 2013-07-20 11:29, Paul Norman wrote:
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:erringt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:42 PM
From: Shawn K. Quinn [mailto:skqu...@rushpost.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2013 9:59 PM
Subject: [Talk-us] Trunk vs motorway for rural Interstates with grade
crossings
As an example of what I am referring to:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/145137749/history
I noticed that
Neither of those is public domain. I know for individuals there can be
issues releasing data into the public domain, but if a government's lawyers
feel their data is public domain, I generally just take them at their word.
If the data is public domain then a simple statement that the data is
Of Josh Doe
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:59 AM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Ian Dees; Elliott Plack; Imports US; OSM US Talk List
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] [Imports-us] Releasing my data into Public Domain
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Neither of those is public
I don't know how this slipped under my radar, but Kelowna BC has open data,
licensed under the PDDL. I see that they have 2012 aerial photos, which I'll
work on hosting, although I might need to upgrade my server first.
What's more interesting is they have some address data. If there is a local
From: Simon Poole [mailto:si...@poole.ch]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Using OpenStreetMap on a daily basis
There are some clear downsides to our current business model for
example our main brand is not exposed as much as if we were running
4square, MapQuest Open etc., and on the other hand
From: Stewart C. Russell [mailto:scr...@gmail.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] Open Government Licence - Canada
[I guess Bernie's original subject of ‘G8 leaders sign open data charter
of principles’ might've made this important announcement sink without
trace.]
Bernie Connors wrote:
Is there
It’s very important to remember that when the law and license talks about a
database, they are not using the same definition as in IT or CS. I imagine you
can have a database that doesn’t involve computers at all. A database could be
flat files, XML, binary files, or I’m sure other forms.
From: Nyall Dawson [mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 4:27 PM
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [talk-au] Vicmap data released on data.gov.au
Hi all,
I'm not sure if this has been raised yet, but in the last week the
entire VicMap dataset was released on
From: Andrew Elwell [mailto:andrew.elw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:43 AM
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve
Can someone point me to guidelines for where the .au distinction between
the two lies?
I'm trying to map piney lakes (see
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:47 AM
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve
Paul Norman wrote:
It's important to remember that leisure=park doesn't apply to all
parks.
I'm guessing
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] what do we mean by geocoding?
On 6/21/13 9:39 PM, Mike N wrote:
On 6/21/2013 1:42 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
Surveying postal addresses by opening mailboxes (illegal) or knocking
on doors doesn't seem feasible.
probably need to have a bigger look at cleaning up California landuse
imports, there is some weird and wrong stuff there, but that's a wider
discussion that doesn't need to stop us from removing the clearly wrong
stuff.
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 3:29
From: Bryce Nesbitt [mailto:bry...@obviously.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Cleaning up California FMMP residential
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I've been doing some California landuse and have come across a lot
[mailto:tom.taylor.s...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2013 8:56 AM
To: Russell Deffner
Cc: 'Murry McEntire'; 'Paul Norman'; 'hot'; 'OSM US Talk'
Subject: Re: [HOT] [Talk-us] Black Forest Fire Update
natural=wood is the obvious way to me. It's what I use here in Ottawa,
Canada.
On 14/06
I've been doing some California landuse and have come across a lot of
landuse=residential imported from FMMP which is clearly wrong. The
landuse=residential covers entire cities, including commercial, industrial,
retail, parks, schools, golf courses, airports, and pretty much anything
within city
We lost track of this case when Richard Weait stepped down, but I placed a
0-hour block about the complaints and pointing out that changeset comments are
helpful.
The 0-hour block has expired so Cam4rd98 has read it, but have they stopped the
behavior that was the problem? I don’t have the
From: Richard Welty [mailto:rwe...@averillpark.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:22 PM
To: Talk Openstreetmap
Subject: [Talk-us] deleting misleading CDPs
my feeling is that if there's a named town then including a much smaller
CDP with the same name is quite misleading. i think the same
. This covers both
his NE2 and NE3 accounts.
Paul Norman
For the Data Working Group
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From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 8:45 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; Toby Murray; the Old Topo Depot; Paul
Norman
Subject: Mass deletion in shawnee county, ks
Hi all, I would like some help here. I have spent the past 6 months
working
Individual addresses are always preferable to interpolation lines,
interpolation lines are just an approximation so if you have all the
addresses in a block you shouldn't also have interpolation lines as the
latter duplicates the former.
As for how to tag the addresses, if they're buildings
How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is
probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but
is there more?
Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email
communicat...@osmfoundation.org.
From: James Mast
The only issue with CC BY is that some data owners believe that attribution
reasonable to the medium is more than the ODbL guarantees which allows
notices in a location . where users would be likely to look for it such as
a wiki page linked from /copyright or in the case of produced works, a
How can we get more effective press coverage from events? Part of it is
probably more people volunteering for the communications working group, but
is there more?
Note: If you want to help with the CWG, email
communicat...@osmfoundation.org.
From: James Mast
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Cc: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] misuse of the landuse=forest tag for national
forests
Hello Torsten:
Please see our wiki pages at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dforest and
From: David [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government
Further, so much OSM data ends up in a psql database, one
column per tag. Believe it or not, psql does not like having column
names start with numerals. It
Chances are good that this is a bug with HTTPS anywhere and Firefox. If you
are using that extension with Firefox, disable the OpenStreetMap Wiki
ruleset.
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8841 for the
corresponding HTTPS anywhere ruleset bug.
From: Stewart Russell
From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import
Hi,
If you carefully read the original mail, you will see two download
links. Both of those links it says the data is public domain I
I've started a table at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_U.S._2013#Room_share for
SOTM-US room shares.
Anyone considering a room share should plan it soon because the Holiday Inn
Civic Center special SOTM-US rate requires booking by the 10th. Other hotels
don't have a hard
From: Mike [mailto:mike.cuttl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 1:36 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata
I am however concerned that
if more people simply assume that the status quo is there to stay
(IDs are stable
Thanks for the proposal, I have a few comments
From: Matthew Petroff [mailto:openstreet...@mpetroff.net]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:03 PM
Subject: [Imports-us] Baltimore Building Outlines Import
Using QGIS, I assigned approximate street addresses to each building
using a parcel map [3]
From: andrzej zaborowski [mailto:balr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:08 PM
To: Frederik Ramm
Cc: OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata
I am less concerned about the Wikidata side - if they make a bad
judgement then it is their mess to
I was wondering who the workshops on Friday before SOTM would be of interest
to. Advanced mappers? Developers of OSM software? Developers of software
using OSM data?
I'm trying to figure out what days to fly in/out on.
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From: Simon Poole [mailto:si...@poole.ch]
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:58 PM
To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] FW: OSM place name data from Turkey
Hi Paul
Has anybody from the TR community tried to get permission from HGK (with
a pointer that the data is
Clarification on numbers:
Assuming every node has been moved, we'd be talking about 26k place or
mountain peak nodes I can definitely keep, about 3k I can restore from the
existing redactions, and about 3k that I'm not sure about.
Now, it's entirely possible a bunch of nodes haven't been
: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 8:15 PM
To: 'Suha Ulgen'
Cc: 'OSM Mikel Maron'; 'Schuyler Erle'; 'Mikel Maron'; 'Kate Chapman'
Subject: RE: OSM place name data from Turkey
From: Suha Ulgen [mailto:m...@suhaulgen.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 7:56 PM
Subject
From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:em...@katpatuka.org]
Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 10:41 PM
To: talk-tr@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-tr] HGK source
Did you contact Mr Ulgen?
Because pnorman could not wait and eagerly started to redact on 18th of
April...
The conclusion of the
If you find another source you could then use that source, it doesnt permit
the use of HGK maps.
From: H. Can Unen [mailto:can.u...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 1:56 AM
To: Paul Norman
Subject: Re: [Talk-tr] HGK source
Mr Ulgen did not respond after that.
Paul
this seems
to be insupportable by the license.
From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:08 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Talk
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor
mark)
Paul -
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Paul
The example notice for OdBL contents is “Contains information from DATABASE
NAME, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).”
This will always be acceptable as it is explicitly stated as meeting the
requirements of 4.3. I can’t see any legal justification in the ODbL
This is not correct – there are no mandatory tags, and there is no legal reason
why a source tag can’t be removed. Incidentally, source tags are perhaps the
ones most frequently removed as osm2pgsql drops them by default.
If you’re looking at doing an import
Are there any reservations on or near the I-5/I-405 between Canada and
Bellevue? I can divert on my way to Issaquah to attempt to ground truth some
of this.
From: Clifford Snow [mailto:cliff...@snowandsnow.us]
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 10:55 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: Talk Openstreetmap; Paul
I can't speak for the US, but tagging of them in BC was set back by people
pushing the view that they should be tagged as provinces. There were also
issues that someone imported a bunch without geometry or tag cleanup.
The fact that they generally cross admin_level=* boundary=administrative
[mailto:can.u...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:42 AM
To: Orkut Murat YILMAZ
Cc: Paul Norman; d...@osmfoundation.org; talk-tr@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-tr] HGK source
Hello,
HGK prohibits every action besides personal use of the purchased maps, so using
HGK data
From: Suha Ulgen [mailto:sul...@imagins.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:14 PM
To: Paul Norman
Subject: Re: [Talk-tr] HGK source
Paul,
HGK is the abbreviation for the Harita Genel Komutanlığı which is the
Turkish General Command for Mapping.
Do you have any information about what
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:08 PM
Subject: [Talk-tr] HGK source
In early April I noticed a number of place=village created by Muthukumar
(e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2250559178) with
source=HGK.
At the time I wondered
The current Nanaimo license is not compatible with OSM. In fact, the current
Nanaimo license does not permit you to redistribute their data at all!
I have some contacts from the Open Data summit and I’ll see if I can make any
progress on the license issue.
Was there a particular dataset
From: Bob Eddings [mailto:eddi...@mac.com]
Subject: [Talk-us] Need an OSM dev in PDX to make a custom vector map
file
I'm working on a local design project and need to meetup with someone in
Portland with the tools skill to create a custom vector map of the
Portland metro area (minus
From: Darryl Shpak [mailto:dar...@shpak.ca]
Subject: [Talk-ca] openstreetmap.ca
Good morning everyone,
So: I am just about to renew this domain for another year. I would like
to pass control of the domain over to the Canadian mapping community, to
someone who will do something --
I might be giving a talk to the local remote sensing industry association
(think multi-spectral imagery, LIDAR, etc), but don't have any clear talk
ideas and was looking for some.
The two ideas I had were
- How OSM uses imagery. The imagery part might be too basic for the
audience, but the
From: Roland Olbricht [mailto:roland.olbri...@gmx.de]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Area tags in Overpass API
The reason to choose objects with name was that all use cases so far
have been variations of the question Where am I?. And without a name
or other distinctive tag value, the area has been
Thanks for the link.
It's good to see a court decision reminding parties that (in Canada) there
is no copyright in data.
From the court decision: However, there is no principle of property law
that would preclude anyone from making use of information displayed in a
publicly available paper
It's worth noting that source:maxspeed=sign is the most common value. I
looked at the last-touched authors for a couple of the country:region values
and for sign and survey and it was my impression that sign and survey had a
wider distribution of users using them.
From: the Old Topo Depot
From: Roland Olbricht [mailto:roland.olbri...@gmx.de]
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org POI display: next beta
Dear all,
the beta for a popup POI display has got its first round of
improvements. See http://overpass.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/
for the live demo.
From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 6:38 PM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [OSM-talk] EWG policy on including features end users versus
mappers
Hi Peter,
When you talk about Users, who are you talking about? To me, the users
of
From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 7:34 AM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] osm.org POI display: next beta
Hi Paul,
There was some discussion at the EWG about POI display being targeted
at mappers vs. end users.
From: Ben Supnik [mailto:bsup...@xsquawkbox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:52 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: 'Mack Stanley'; OpenStreetMap US Talk
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Questions about bsupnik's NHD OSM files
Hi Y'all,
I've been out to lunch re: NHD for a while..Paul, a stupid q
With all the address stuff I've completely dropped NHD off my plate.
I had been working on a NHD to OSM conversion and had gotten so far as to
get a Potlatch2 instance with it as a background layer, see
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2012-November/009515.html
and
I'm not exactly following the logic in the code. Could you produce a .osc
file result with the changes that it would make?
From: Eric Fischer [mailto:e...@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 7:11 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Cc: Michal Migurski; Alex Barth
Subject: [Talk-us] Updating
With the new Montreal open data, perhaps they have aerial photography they
can release? Or perhaps they already have, but I couldn't find any. If
someone can get it, I can host it.
From: nicholas ingalls [mailto:nicholas.inga...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 11:18 AM
To: Harald
From: Harald Kliems [mailto:kli...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Licence de données ouvertes, Montréal
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
Lastly, cadastral data is probably the least exciting type of data for
OSM
It’s good to see more municipalities opening up their data and open data
catching on. Seeing more municipalities writing their own licenses isn’t so
good.
Now, on to the more practical questions needed to use the data.
Could you provide a translation of 4.1 and 4.2 of their license? Are
Both of those relations describe areas. In fact, I believe osm2pgsql uses
the exact same code for building type=boundary as type=multipolygon.
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:38 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Park
The fact that you can’t mix OSM + proprietary data and then distribute it as
some kind of “OSM but better” without releasing the proprietary data is a
feature of share-alike licenses, not a bug.
The public domain argument is a bit of a red herring. If OSM used a PD-like
license like PDDL
From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.alli...@teksavvy.com]
Subject: [Talk-ca] GeoBase tags
Hello:
Are the Geobase attribution tags relevant, should I leave them in
or strip them out?
There's no legal reason why you can't remove the attribution=* tags (or any
tag, for that matter).
A us-only taginfo. Frequently the tag usage distribution varies between
regions which is why there local taginfo instances for a few countries
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Taginfo/Sites)
The taginfo sqlite databases total about 4GB for the planet so this
shouldn't take much space, but
From: Jochen Topf [mailto:joc...@remote.org]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Comments On New Tile Layer Guideline Process
So... who would like to build such a everything goes map site? I think
it is relatively easy. One Openlayers of Leaflet site.
http://mapstyle.petschge.de/ is one implementation
The problem is that people think that a vote on the wiki pages means that the
far more common tag is wrong. I tag my bus stops with highway=bus_stop (as well
as operator, ref and shelter/bench information)
From: Jo [mailto:winfi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:35 PM
To:
Nothing in that presentation says that Google sourced the data from
Wikipedia, just that Wikipedia and Google had the same coordinates, which in
this case would be from some official source. The current data on Google
also differs from Wikipedia.
From: Michael Patrick
From: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com]
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes in
France
Hi all,
I'm submitting here a question about the legality of keeping French long
hiking routes called GR or GRP or PR in OSM. All these routes are
very well known, have
[reordered to place copyright matters together]
From: Pieren [mailto:pier...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:26 AM
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes
in France
Again, you have to understand that
From: Jason Remillard [mailto:remillard.ja...@gmail.com]
Subject: [OSM-talk] additional layers on osm.org
Hello Everybody,
I wanted to confirm the major reason we only have 4 layers on osm.org,
is a resourcing issue, rather than a political issue. Basically, we do
not have enough disk,
From: Brian Cavagnolo [mailto:bcavagn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:29 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] parcel boundaries and associated data in OSM
Is parcel data useful to OSM?
Parcel data in of itself has not found a use in OSM. Parcel data bounds
From: Peter Wendorff [mailto:wendo...@uni-paderborn.de]
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 10:21 AM
To: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Display names of crossroads
Am 13.02.2013 14:44, schrieb Hans Schmidt:
Concerning tagging: I don’t think that there should be some
I'm working on a presentation and was wondering if anyone had some examples
of use of OSM for maps in the recent US election. I know there were some,
but I can't find them
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From: Simon Poole [mailto:si...@poole.ch]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Takedown notices
I doubt that it would be wise or legally possible to publish the full
text of any takedown requests we have received, and if it is just for UK
data protection regulations. I do think it would be a good idea
From: Ilya Zverev [mailto:zve...@textual.ru]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue
Hi. Since no one has explained, I'd quote a part from OSMF Board Meeting
Minutes:
OSMF received C+D letter from someone who trademarked the word
“Geocode(TM)” and asks us to
Darn - I'm out tonight (and every Tuesday)
-Original Message-
From: Serge Wroclawski [mailto:emac...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:56 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Import Committee Meeting tonight on Google+
Hey all,
A quick reminder that
Well any imports would need to go by the imports@ list where hopefully the
license would be reviewed if necessary.
From: Pekka Sarkola [mailto:pekka.sark...@gispo.fi]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:51 AM
To: 'Licensing and other legal discussions.'
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Advice
I'm sure we're all overjoyed to have this come up again...
Background/refresher:
GADM is a global administrative boundary dataset under a non-commercial
license. Some people imported data from it into OSM, not realizing (or not
caring) that it was incompatible with CC BY-SA, ODbL as well as any
Whoops - wrong cc. Too tired + autocomplete. Not that there's anything
secret, just no need to say anything much if we got permission.
Just a random work item from the DWG.
From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:32 AM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] GADM
From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark
My initial writeup could have been clearer: This RFC _does_ seek to
replace the currently recommended line (c) OpenStreetMap contributors
linking to http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright with a
From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RFC - OSM contributor mark
My initial writeup could have been clearer: This RFC _does_ seek to
replace the currently recommended line (c) OpenStreetMap contributors
linking to http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright with a
I see that there is an event in Vancouver and some people from the city will be
there. I'd like to compile a list of issues with the Vancouver license
beforehand. I know rweait had some as blog posts but I think they're offline.
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
From: Pierre Béland
to
connect town boundaries to them). I'd be interested to know how well
that data source matches others for the state boundary, too, though.
Paul Norman got me thinking about the BC/Washington State border. Comparing
Washington State's border files with TIGER data you'll find discrepancies. I
On 2013-01-09, at 7:38 PM, Sailor Jerry sailorje...@scmarinetech.com wrote:
Looks I like barged straight to the committee boat and now I need to do my
720 turns :-)
Here is what I've done so far:
1) Reverted all my previous submissions ( see
On 2013-01-06, at 7:50 PM, Nathan Mixter nmix...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if OSM could do the same thing. Could we buy as a group a
program like Feature Analyst, eCognition or Imagine Objective and add
buildings that way? We could combine the buildings with any existing address
Resenting to the right address...
Sent from my iPad
On 2013-01-03, at 12:09 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote:
I'm considering going to this conference and presenting on OSM use of open
data. I figure it might be of interest to a few people as data used by us
will be used by Wikipedia
From: Alex Sims [mailto:a...@softgrow.com]
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Using CC-BY as a source for Openstreetmap
Hi,
I looked at wiki.openstreetmap.org and couldn't find a straight answer
as to wheter CC-BY data sets can be used as a source for Openstreetmap.
The South Australian State
Ive been looking at a bot to fix the double-space issue with
CanVec/Geobase, but no idea when Ill have the time for it so dont let that
stop anyone else interested from developing one, consulting, etc. Serges
work in the US with TIGER name expansions might be helpful.
Also, just a
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:31 PM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?
I have been pondering the use of the admin_level key in the USA, and
have come to the realization that while values 2, 4, 6
From: Werner Hoch [mailto:werner...@gmx.de]
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] House Numbers
That one looks strange to:
3490 OSMF Redaction Account
I don't think that the redaction bot actively mapped adresses.
I'd expect the redaction bot has mapped zero adresses.
In certain scenarios the
help clarify guidance moving forward.
(my take on the answers are: no (2 weeks minimum), no (that page is a
disaster), and no clue.)
Thanks, Jeff
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote
I'm going to be in Toronto in the new year and was wondering if any OSM or
GIS events, meetings or mappy hours would be taking place. I'll be arriving
on the 2nd and leaving on the 7th for Penetang but might be free after that.
I'll mainly be spending time with the relatives, but the dates for
on it but the person doing so
would probably be okay since they didnt make the K.S.A. 45-220(c)(2)
certification.
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 9:51 AM
To: Martin Koppenhöfer
Cc: Paul Norman; imports; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re
...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 6:51 PM
To: Paul Norman
Cc: imports; talk-us@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Imports] [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse
Well we can remove the names of the lbcs codes, I left them for now because
it is very useful for editing. I am using them
of the consultation.
From: Mike Dupont [mailto:jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:05 AM
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org; Paul Norman
Subject: [Talk-us] shawnee county landuse
Hi,
Paul Norman pointed out that I forgot to mail people about my work on
topeka. I have
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