Re: [Talk-ca] Missing harbours and marshes - L Ontario

2011-08-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Bob Dustan bob.dus...@gmail.com wrote: I just noticed that several small bodies of water along the north shore of Lake Ontario have disappeared (partially or completely).  Some harbours

Re: [OSM-talk] Introductory OSM Videos

2011-08-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: In honor of OSM's birthday, I present to the OSM community a new series of videos on OpenStreetMap. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCE6296A33CF47955feature=mh_lolz They're a set of Khan Academy style videos.

Re: [OSM-talk] Investigating Changesets. (repost from help)

2011-08-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Gary68 g...@gary68.de wrote: osmdiff is a fairly old program. there is a better program called useractivity.pl. see wiki. however, it also needs the XML/osm files. i use it to monitor certain areas regularly and i provide these checks on my server. I have

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi Richard, Is how many positions are open and which positions available? I've not seen any information on that yet. Based on the 1/3 per year, I expect 2 or three spots to be up for election.

[OSM-talk] OSMF elections

2011-08-14 Thread Richard Weait
In prior years the elections were held at an AGM with proxy votes by email for those not able to attend. Last year, the OSMF board election was held at SotM - Girona, with the same proxy votes by email. this was seen as an improvement and will be the method used this year as well. We're coming

[OSM-talk] SotM Denver: Preliminary schedule

2011-08-09 Thread Richard Weait
The preliminary schedule for State of the Map is available on the web site. See you in Denver. It's going to be great fun. http://stateofthemap.org/schedules/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Sister Projects / possible data source

2011-08-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:42 PM, assetburned openstreet...@assetburned.de wrote: hi just an idea. would it be possible to include the WiFi or Celltower information that are collected by crowdflow.net into open street map? maybe someone could ask them if they are willing to provide there data

Re: [Talk-ca] Missing street segments

2011-08-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Begin jfd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've found some street missing in Cornwall Ontario.  Seems deleted to me. Someone is aware about that? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.01442lon=-74.73045zoom=16layers=M That does look a little odd. It might

[Talk-ca] Ottawa Mapping Party (?) Sunday, 28 August 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I hear a rumour that there may be a Mapping Party-like event in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sunday 28 August 2011. This will be the day after the FOSSLC Summer Camp[1] at University of Ottawa, and so there may well be some Free Software notables in attendance. It you are planning to attend

[Talk-us] Ottawa Mapping Party (?) Sunday, 28 August 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I hear a rumour that there may be a Mapping Party-like event in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sunday 28 August 2011. This will be the day after the FOSSLC Summer Camp[1] at University of Ottawa, and so there may well be some Free Software notables in attendance. It you are planning to attend

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, straup str...@gmail.com wrote: For what it's worth we were aware that IDs were technically considered unstable when we started down the OSM machine tags extras road, at Flickr. Do you have an idea of how often OSM machine tags are added to items in Flickr, and

Re: [OSM-talk] Download only specific nodes in one large area

2011-07-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Gerrit z0idb...@gmx.de wrote: Hello, because I want to add language-specific name-tags to all cities in one area, I wonder if it is possible to download *only* city nodes for an entire country? If I download the entire country, 1. the download takes too long

Re: [OSM-talk] Download only specific nodes in one large area

2011-07-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Gerrit z0idb...@gmx.de wrote: Am 31.07.2011 20:27, schrieb Richard Weait: You probably don't want to use the API for this, as it would likely be an abuse of the editing API resources.  Have a look at XAPI and similar read-only APIs for this sort of data

[OSM-talk] Happy SysAdmin Day

2011-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
Happy SysAdmin Day to all of the System Administrators on the list. And especially to our very own admins for OpenStreetMap. To all of you who keep our servers running, and lug them through the underground, to the folks who maintain the services that we rely upon and enjoy, to the cartographers

Re: [OSM-talk] Blatant case of tagging for the renderer

2011-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I'll leave it for a few days so others can see it in all its glory :) http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31408390 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/31408400 Let's be fair. Tagging name=[PAVED,UNPAVED] is

Re: [OSM-talk] querying the postgis db

2011-07-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I know that this sounds a bit of a dumb question: I have installed osm data in a postgis db, and would like to get a list of all localities within a particular city - can anyone give a hint on the sql required

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Parveen Arora wrote: Why birthdays of OSM are not being celebrated on same day, Can't we declare one particular day as OSM's Birthday? Kenneth replied: that will create a huge thread of hundreds of messages debating this

[Talk-ca] Toronto: OSM 7th birthday party

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, It is that time of year again, time to celebrate another year of OSM OSM-ness. There will be other OpenStreetMap birthday parties around the world. Organize your own, or come and join us in Toronto on Saturday, 20 August 2011. RSVP required.

Re: [Talk-us] Chattanooga OSM Meeting on 7/21/2011

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: Update on the meeting. We had 6 people attend. I was really only expecting about 3. Out of the 6, two of us were very familiar with OSM. The other four had no experience. Fantastic! Four potential new mappers

[OSM-talk] Video for conferences (loosely related to SotM-EU)

2011-07-21 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, A recurring question for FLOSS conferences in general is; What's the best way to stream our presentations to those who can't be here, and to store them for the historical record. I don't know the answer. The team at SotM-EU did a super job of recording the talks and posting them

[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap 7th Birthday Party

2011-07-21 Thread Richard Weait
The date for the OSM seventh birthday is coming up. Soon. But when? Which date shall we set this year? Previous OSM birthdays have been celebrated around August on 20 August 2010 22 August 2009 02 August 2008 11 August 2007 12 August 2006 I suggest Saturday, 20 August 2011, and I offer one

[OSM-talk] Data reconciliation. Removing CT/ODbL declined users.

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
that data now or wait another week or two. Once you begin replacing data, check on a regular basis whether the user in question hasn't changed his/her mind and has accepted CT/ODbL. You can look at http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/license/, this is updated every hour. Best regards, Richard Weait

[OSM-talk] data reconciliation tools

2011-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Color-coded map of ODbL status http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/ list your favourites: ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[Talk-ca] wiki cleanup

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Some folks are doing periodic wiki cleanup and noticed that there are pages with Canada in the name that are considered lonely pages These lonely pages aren't linked from any other pages in the wiki. Some of these may be abandoned and others junk, but some might have some forgotten

[Talk-ca] empty relations.

2011-07-18 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, An OSM relation with neither tags, nor members is likely an error of some sort. I see that some of us are on the list of users who last-touched these empty relations. See the discussion on talk@ for more information. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-July/059414.html

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week: Meta. :-)

2011-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
Project of the Week is on hiatus during State of the Map EU but we can still talk about Project of the Week. Have some thoughts? Which was your favourite so far? What future projects would interest you? Help with the survey (5 questions, 3 minutes). http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KRVC2YN

[OSM-talk] From Sotm-EU11: Overpass API

2011-07-15 Thread Richard Weait
I really enjoyed Roland's presentation about his Overpass API. It is a bit like XAPI, but with some interesting additions, like further processing one result set before returning. You should read more about it on the wiki. Nice job Roland. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM3S You should

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Irony, was [talk-au]

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Weait
[Redirected from talk-au to legal-talk due to topic of discussion] Andrew Laughton wrote: Irony is when you buy a shiny new GPS loaded with OSM data, only to find out that you need to pay a license fee to be able to update the map. Gotta love that new license. [Response from Richard

Re: [Talk-ca] Problem uploading GPX files

2011-07-12 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Connors, Bernie (SNB) bernie.conn...@snb.ca wrote: Is anybody else having trouble uploading GPX files to OSM?  Here is a GPX file that I recorded on Saturday with most of the track points deleted. When I attempt to upload this trace to OSM it appears to work and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question regarding compatibility of CC BY SA license versions

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
2011/7/11 Holger Schöner nume...@ancalime.de: Hello, [I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but this matter is urgent, and a cursory web search has not provided sufficient information for me to answer these questions] I am in negotiation with a provider of aerial images (for Austria), who wants to

Re: [talk-au] Irony...

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: Is it just me, or is there a certain amount of irony in Nearmap not allowing OSM to use their aerials to trace from, but being quite happy to use OSM as their street layer? (Don't get me wrong - I think Nearmap have a

[talk-au] talk-au moderation

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
Hi talk-au, In an effort to cool some heads this list will be on full moderation for a bit. This is not an ideal way to run a mailing list for an open project and it is unlikely to be a permanent change. For the next while[1], all posts will have to be explicitly released by a moderator to get

Re: [talk-au] talk-au moderation

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
... There is also a large backlog of messages held for moderation (spam, fishing and non-subscribed), I'm going through that now. Apologies if I take a while to get to your messages. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] How to get more publicity?

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: So here's my solution. We take aim at a date like GIS day in November (I think) or a nice Saturday near to it. We run a national day of mapping parties trying to get one per state on the same day. Each party organizer is

Re: [Talk-us] Announcing the Chattanooga OpenStreetMap Users Group

2011-07-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote: So I tried to come up with a more interesting name...Chattamappers...ChooChoo Cartographers.Pork Chop and the Def MapMakingIdiots..and my favorite: The Barry Manilow Experience. I ended up just going

[OSM-talk] Brilliant!

2011-07-08 Thread Richard Weait
Bravo, Señor España. Bravo. http://opengeodata.org/state-of-the-map ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Mailing list moderation

2011-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
After careful consideration, effective immediately Mikel Maron, Andy Robinson and Mike Collinson have access to the moderation system across the main OSM mailing lists. They will use their best judgment according to the a href=http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Etiquette#Mailing_Lists; moderation

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 July 2011 21:49, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: But that doesn't mean that their content won't show up in a future ODBL map. I've noticed that John Smith doesn't want to answer my question,

Re: [OSM-talk] house numbers, new zealand style

2011-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i'm currently adding house numbers to some properties in my locality (and using this to prepare for an import). the problem is this: some blocks of houses have both a street address and a unit number. so we might

[OSM-talk] Project of the Week: Vienna, and future PotW

2011-07-07 Thread Richard Weait
h2This week/h2 We're on the way to Vienna for a href=http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_Europe_2011;State of the Map-EU/a, so the Project of the Week is to map those things that will help you get to Vienna. a

Re: [OSM-talk] Featured mapping, parks

2011-07-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: Has anyone considered creating Featured mapping of the week, similar to Best of OSM [1]? Or featured/example mapping for key/tag pages? These would pick out certain areas that are very well mapped, to be used as examples for

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-Garmin relationship?

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: Hi, Does someone know if there is some sort of relationship between OSM and Garmin? I'm not aware of any relationship between OSMF and Garmin. I've had two people tell me that their new Garmins arrived with

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: I've started using forward/backward roles rather than north/south/east/west on relations for state highways, due to JOSM's relation editor supporting sorting by them and Nakor's tool Nakor's tool for ... ? Link?

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance Work (Partial Outage)

2011-06-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Some secondary OpenStreetMap services will be unavailable during the following dates, due to power maintenance work at our server hosting: Thank you, again, Grant and server team, for the work during the

Re: [Talk-us] Grand Junction + TIGER 2010

2011-06-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Mike N wrote  I converted a copy of Mesa County for your use: Thanks MIke, that's great!! I just opened it in Josm and looked at one new estate.  All the roads are there and named.  Even Riverside Parkway is

[OSM-talk] Thank you sysadmins!

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all. OpenStreetMap came through the scheduled maintenance on 23 June in great shape. We should all thank the sysadmin team for making the server move happen. Grant, Andy and Harry were all on site at one or both ends of the move. Andy's friend Mark helped out as well on site. Tom was

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Is it a temporary file or Derivative Database under ODbL

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Weait
re-routing from talk@ On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 4:13 PM, ThomasB toba0...@yahoo.de wrote: Hi, i have a practical questions. If I want to generate a Garmin map for a larger country and want to add contour lines, it is impossible to merge the data only in the RAM. Hence a local temporary file is

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Walking Papers is back and I'm sorry it was down.

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hi everyone, I fixed Walking Papers today. It was not processing new prints and scans for almost two weeks. It's been hit with a double-whammy of garbage input and not enough of my time to fix it. Thank you, Mike.

Re: [Talk-us] Walking Papers is back and I'm sorry it was down.

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Michal Migurski m...@stamen.com wrote: Hi everyone, I fixed Walking Papers today. It was not processing new prints and scans for almost two weeks. It's been hit with a double-whammy of garbage input and not enough of my time to fix it. Thank you, Mike.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 2.2 is live. New features include: - [Awesome] - [Awesome] - [Awesome] Nice work, Potlatch Team! ___ talk mailing list

[talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Weait
JohnSmith your four changesets today are missing descriptive changeset comments. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JohnSmith/edits The barrier here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8480159 does not advise of the source you used. The connected way claims yahoo as source, but that

Re: [Talk-us] Road Trip to SotM

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, I know there was some talk about the GeoBus for State of the Map. Well, on a much smaller scale myself and Iván Sánchez are going to drive from Washington D.C. to Denver.  This is a one way trip and I plan to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:39 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 19:22, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: Tiles are clearly *maps* and so protected as artistic works under article 2(1) of the Berne Convention and therefore (one hopes) in every country which is a

Re: [OSM-talk] Something between a changeset and a comment

2011-06-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, yvecai yve...@gmail.com wrote: A xml extract of the changeset of the user would be great :) Maybe heavy? Yves Do you mean a changeset of the collected activity of each user? Isn't that like looking at the user/edits page?

[OSM-legal-talk] active contributor

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer schrieb: The first problem is that the right to vote depends upon being allowed to contribute. It it defined anywhere what contribute means? From the contributor terms v1.2.4 An active

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] application of ODBL to an extarct of OSM obtained via jxapi

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Word in quotes below relate to the meanings given them by ODbL Assume I use jxapi to download an extract of the main OSM database .  Is the downloaded extract a Derivative Database, or since the download was provided

[OSM-talk] Something between a changeset and a comment

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Have you ever wondered about a changeset comment from a particular mapper, but found that browsing through a changeset was a little more involved than you had hoped? Me too. I've always wanted some kind of a summary, of what is being done in a changeset, or various places. I still

Re: [OSM-talk] Hack the Map An Idea for Online Mapping Events.

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Mike N nice...@att.net wrote: On 6/15/2011 4:53 AM, Parveen Arora wrote: Please give your valuable suggestions to make it better, also add the points that you wants to take care about during this kind of online event event.  Just a note for the local venue -

Re: [OSM-talk] Hack the Map An Idea for Online Mapping Events.

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Parveen Arora m...@parveenarora.in wrote: Hello Everyone, I am organising event to do online mapping, to increase the enrichment of OSM maps, also we have set up a lab to train the students and to make them able to work on OSM on that day.

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote: It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because nobody got around to talking to the OS folks yet... There have been several attempts to engage with OS, if I remember correctly, both by LWG and by

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote: On 15/06/11 14:41, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Jones roller...@sucs.org wrote: It seems a bit backward to block my new contributions just because nobody got around to talking to the OS folks

[Talk-ca] Fwd: link on wiki to new research report

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Weait
Interesting use of OSM and transit feeds for a report on multi-modal trip planning. -- Forwarded message -- From: Hillsman, Edward hills...@cutr.usf.edu Hi all, One of my colleagues and I have completed a report on developing multimodal trip planners. The report focuses on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This will mean that anyone who has explictly declined the new contributor terms will no

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
Also the current acceptance numbers are ~166,000 accepting, vs. 406 declined. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM. Dear Ben, Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: ... Both on the confidential legal-talk list ... This is a perfect example of a process that never involved the average contributors. Nonsense. The separate list for legal discussions was created because legal discussions were

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM. Dear Ben, Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's

[talk-au] License change Phase 4 coming soon.

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
Just announced on legal-talk is that Phase 4[1] of the license change process is scheduled for this Sunday, 19 June 2011. During Phase 4, only contributors who have accepted CT/ODbL will be able to edit. That is, the 406 contributors who have declined CT/ODbL will not be able to edit. I

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM. Dear Ben, Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's

Re: [Talk-us] Categorizing Stores/Restaurants

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Kristian Zoerhoff kristian.zoerh...@gmail.com wrote: I would think Sears = department store; they called themselves that for many years. I think something like Super Wal-Mart or (here in the Midwest) Meijer is tougher; is it department store, clothing, grocery,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Import from Ushahidi Libya Instance

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Legal-talk, any opinions or insights on this question? == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Mean high water level rendering

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ed, Given the renderening speeds we are seeing, I wonder if it would be possible to calculate and update OSM with actual estimated tide heights, say once every 5 minutes for coastlines of interest. Now just how

Re: [talk-au] nearmap LWG minutes

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit late to the game but the one of the LWG minutes talks about nearmap... It isn't apparent from the link, but for the information of those reading them here without checking the original document, the

Re: [Talk-us] What happened here?

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Kristian Zoerhoff kristian.zoerh...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I've heard from both users. Juliana was a newbie, and messed up an edit badly. Martin tried to fix it, but just couldn't fix it all by hand. I hate to revert his changeset, as he's a good mapper, but I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Possible OSM copyright violations

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ciprian Talaba cipriantal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would be interested to know if this is the place where we can discuss possible OSM copyright violations or should I direct my concerns directly to the Data Working Group? The problems I noticed are related to

Re: [OSM-talk] tile downloads

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Geza Gyuk gg...@adlerplanetarium.org wrote: Hi, I'm a little unclear if this is the method I should be using to ask about acceptable use of the tile.openstreetmap.org server, but here goes: The Adler Planetarium runs a high altitude ballooning program for kids

[Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM Subject: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011 To: Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org, OSM Dev List d...@openstreetmap.org, annou...@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM Subject: [OSM-dev] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - 23rd June 2011 To: Talk Openstreetmap t...@openstreetmap.org, OSM Dev List d...@openstreetmap.org, annou...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] NHD conversions to OSM

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: If I remember correctly the converter is keeping as little in-memory as possible (so it can convert huge shapefiles). Also, it will split ways at 2000 nodes and turn things into multipolygons. If that 2000 could be cranked

Re: [OSM-talk] Slim mode in osm2pgsql and out of memory error

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Saphy Mo saphy...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear friend, I am trying to import whole Europe.os.bz2 in a Postgis database named EuropeLl as you see in the script below. CPU: Dual Coe 3 Ghy RAM: 3 GB HDD: 1 TB osm2pgsql.exe -d EuropeLL --latlong --slim -c -C 500 -H

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Gordon Dewis gor...@pinetree.org wrote: And it is done. Thank you, Gordon. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Different account for Canvec data

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Robert Shand b...@shand.org.uk wrote: Based off of a recent discussion I'm looking at creating a new account for the Canvec data I'm importing. I just want to clarify what things I should setup when I create my account. Specifically how should I answer In

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM, john wilbanks wilba...@creativecommons.org wrote: Yup, I said this: I'm going to be a little provocative here and say that your data is already unprotected [under CC-BY-SA], and you cannot slap a license on it and protect it. ... That means I'm free to ignore

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:24 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Earlier, Jonathan Crowe said, but JW messed up the attribution: Treat his edits as vandalism and proceed accordingly. I would be extremely happy to see all my edits removed. So you are happy to be known as a vandal,

Re: [Talk-ca] wetlands in canvec

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:48 PM, James A. Treacy tre...@debian.org wrote: Hello, Is it allowed to have wetland outside of land? I don't know. I think it depends on how your definitions match for the extent of the wetland vs. the extent of the other water body. Certainly tidal water can be

Re: [Talk-us] Which county next?

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: Okay that works for me, Hennepin will be next. So you have an incentive to get all you're friends to finish off the current one, as we all do. It's kind of neat in that anyone can now help OSM without needing to map. So

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Why is that 2/3 majority not sought for the current license move? Current respondents are far above 2/3 accepting the new license and contributor terms. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Samuel Mandell shmand...@gmail.com wrote: I'm designing a project whose goal is to prepare folks in my community for disasters. An essential part of any disaster kit are maps of the local area so that when electricity has gone out people can still navigate to

[Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
Dear John, Your edit today http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8355694 deleted thousands of nodes and ways, with a comment of bixi bike_rental but in fact deleted large portions of Leslie park.

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: Acting on your advice I accepted the new CT. If I recall discussion you asked what the license was all about and why was there so much chatter about it? And if I recall my reply, it was something along the lines of, you

Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:10 PM, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: According to the new CT terms OSM can change the license to anything. Dear John, Your interpretation of the contributor terms is incorrect. See §3 http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms ... or such

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PGS coastline

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: My account used for importing PGS coastlines just got an email asking that it agree to new contributor terms - has anyone already declared this is OK during the import-checking phase of license change? Asking on mailing list,

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, James Mast rickmastfa...@hotmail.com wrote: Here's some examples you could test: Great list with links. Thank you, James. Thanks to everybody for their suggestions with links. I'm leaning away from distinguishing Future shields; I've already stripped the

[Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Weait
I'm doing a little work on shield rendering for Interstate and US Route shields, etc. Who has a favourite highway overlap? I'd like a few examples of each of the following. - two Interstates overlapping on a way - three Interstates overlapping on a way - combination of Interstates and US Routes

Re: [Talk-us] shields and overlaps

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Weait
Oh why not. How about an overlap of one I, one US and one state-something as well? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-06-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Nakor Osm nakor@gmail.com wrote: I have also noticed that some tiles does not have all street names. For example the tile covering Pointe-a-la-Croix, QC and Campbellton, NB have all street names on QC side but only a few ones on NB side. You shouldn't be

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: [OSGeo-qc] Party carto le samedi 18 juin 2011 a l'Universite de Sherbrooke

2011-06-02 Thread Richard Weait
2011/6/2 Yves Moisan yves.moi...@boreal-is.com Hi All, I'm redirecting this email from Jérôme Théau about a mapping party in Sherbrooke on June 18. Cheers all, Yves Message original Sujet: [OSGeo-qc] Party carto le samedi 18 juin 2011 a l'Universite de Sherbrooke

Re: [Talk-ca] Railways duplicated in CanVec data

2011-06-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Samuel Longiaru longi...@shaw.ca wrote: What?  Didn't know that.  We should be importing under a separate account? How is that to be set up?  Sorry if I've been doing this wrong. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Use_a_dedicated_user_account

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Next FredOSM event

2011-06-02 Thread Richard Weait
Another OSM event is in the planning stages for Fredericton, NB. Join the fun if you are local. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bernie Connors Hi everybody,   I did not organize an OSM event for May but I am planning one for the week of June 20th.  My plan is to walk the streets

[Talk-us] Who is mapping on the ground in US?

2011-06-02 Thread Richard Weait
I see that a mapping party is planned for Boston this month. This is awesome, and if you are nearby, you should attend. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Boston/June_2011_mapping_party There is also a mapping party on that date in Sherbrooke, Quebec. But why aren't there ten times as many

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