Re: [Talk-GB] Video tutorials (was: OSM Analysis New Data and bot)

2011-06-22 Thread davespod
Ed Avis wrote: Note that David Ellams is one step ahead and has already created some video tutorials on how to use Potlatch 2. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Video_tutorials That's only one piece of the puzzle. Agreed. Not everyone likes watching videos, nor are they very easy to go

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 video tutorials subtitles

2011-06-20 Thread davespod
groppo otto wrote: I have made subtitles in English and Italian for David Ellams video tutorials [1] [2] with Universal Subtitles. That's great! So far we have English, Italian and Dutch. I hope speakers of a few other tongues rise to the challenge. Cheers David -- View this message in

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

2011-06-18 Thread davespod
JohnSmitty wrote: As I said before, you can easily do this with copyright, use CC-by-ND instead of CC-by-SA, but if something is licensed as CC-by-SA it can legally be derived from as long as the resulting work is also CC-by-SA. What I am saying is that Creative Commons guidance appears to

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

2011-06-17 Thread davespod
Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Let me try copyright-only examples. I can take up the full text of all of the works of William Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations, and release the book under CC-BY-SA. Now since the original text by Shakespeare is already in the public domain, I

[OSM-talk] Navigon to Sell OpenStreetMap POIs Packages for PNDs

2011-06-14 Thread davespod
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/Navigon-Add-22-Million-POIs-To-SatNav-Devices--1060.php An interesting development. If I understand things correctly (and assuming CC-by-SA holds water for data), they can charge for these derived data sets, but they would still have to be CC-by-SA, and so anyone who

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-15 Thread davespod
Steve Doerr wrote: Yes, there's no such word as 'trailor'! That is embarrassing! Unfortunately, I then copied and pasted the mistake into several other columns, too. Fixed. Cheers David -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Maxspeed tagging for the UK

2011-04-14 Thread davespod
Peter Miller wrote: Assuming we are supporting these second format then where should the look-up table be that gives the values? This page is having a go at it but doesn't seem to be doing a very good job! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed What about updating

Re: [OSM-talk] Videos

2011-03-20 Thread davespod
Sorry this has taken so long, folks. I have been fighting my video editing software (and/or my hardware), which has prevented me from achieving a good a result as I wanted. In the end I have had to settle for a lower res version, and it has some rough edges. The worst of these is that in a few

Re: [OSM-talk] Videos

2011-03-16 Thread davespod
Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: Where is your first video? http://www.vimeo.com/18559427 However, the sound quality is very poor. I have just re-recorded the voiceover (which I have been meaning to do for a month) and also trimmed out some of the pauses to make it about shorter. I will probably

Re: [OSM-talk] all our addresses are belong to you

2011-03-03 Thread davespod
Pieren wrote: And after a quick check on the FR addresses, I've seen that about 10% of the post codes are wrong. Yes, I think this may be a very useful additional resource, and I commend Mapquest for releasing it, but please don't anyone think about a global bulk upload. I just checked

[Talk-GB] OSM and The Big Society

2011-03-02 Thread davespod
The Cabinet Office's Office for Civil Society has just published a report citing international examples of The Big Society. Case study number 1 is OpenStreetMap: http://www.arnaudriegert.com/wp-content/uploads/international-examples-big-society.pdf Cheers David -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 tutorial videos. (Was: Re: Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?)

2011-02-12 Thread davespod
Sorry, Tom. I meant to reply to your feedback. Tom Chance wrote: Not sure if I'm also in Richard's you lot club, but I produced a fairly easy going introduction to OSM and Potlatch 2 including a video last year: http://www.openecomaps.co.uk/contribute.php I need to redo the video now I've

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 tutorial video: part 1 (rough cut)

2011-02-09 Thread davespod
: http://www.vimeo.com/18559427 Cheers David (davespod) P.S. I’d consider releasing this CC0 to maximise worry-free re-editing and re-use. However, I’m slightly concerned there might be howls of anguish if OSM data is in a CC0 video. I suspect it would be fair use, as would using Bing imagery

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 tutorial videos. (Was: Re: Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?)

2011-02-07 Thread davespod
Richard Fairhurst wrote: That is absolutely _brilliant_! Thanks for your kind words. Thanks to Tom, too. I will try to find time later to respond to suggestions made both here and by private mail. (Summary: I agree with some and disagree with others!) My faith in human nature is restored. :)

[Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 tutorial videos. (Was: Re: Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?)

2011-02-04 Thread davespod
tutorials?). Here it is: http://www.vimeo.com/18559427 Cheers David (davespod) P.S. I have no particular interest in having my name in lights and I’d consider releasing this CC0 to maximise worry-free re-editing or plagiarism. However, I’m slightly concerned there might be howls of anguish if OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-08 Thread davespod
Richard wrote: For those who are similarly humourously challenged may I point out that I have checked and no, the OS OpenData licence does not refer to pubic sector information. [...] Oops! It may read as a sense of humour failure, but it was actually a literacy failure. Maybe, therefore,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread davespod
Richard wrote: Mike Collinson wrote It incorporates the Open Government License for pubic sector information I sincerely hope it doesn't say that! I'm afraid it does. So, the question is does the modification of the terms invalidate the part of the OGL guaranteeing ODC-by compatibility?

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-09 Thread davespod
Joseph Reeves wrote: Sorry, but I find this to be a really negative attitude; there's loads of people that want to draw a line on the map for the first time, but less who want to tidy existing streets, or just add POIs. What would be wrong, for example, with collecting the first GPS trace of

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org wrote: you should not map from any imagery area you know nothing more about. If there's consensus for this view, get it documented on the wiki, and call it policy.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:33 AM, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1 See item 3.* Very interesting. That line was added by Ben in January 2009, and that sentence hasn't been touched since. Bah! You're

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

2010-12-08 Thread davespod
Richard Mann wrote: I wouldn't recommend remote tracing, but if you do it with due care, or maybe to supplement stuff you have surveyed (or maybe even just seen out of the window when passing), I completely agree that supplementing stuff you have surveyed or even tracing something you have

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect of Bing Mobile

2010-11-24 Thread davespod
(and whether MS would be willing to buy it!). Here's hoping! David (davespod) -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Steve-Coast-Joins-Microsoft-as-Principle-Architect-of-Bing-Mobile-tp5767431p5771900.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com

[OSM-talk] Think before you bot

2010-09-23 Thread davespod
This is just a general plea to those using bots. Please use your immense powers with extreme caution. There seems to me to have been an increase in bot edits lately, and some of them are becoming very bold. I've seen shop=pet_supplies changed to shop=pet and some similar examples of late, that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Osmf-talk] The license/fork discussion: A solution proposal

2010-08-24 Thread davespod
Apologies to legal-talk, it would have helped if I had quoted the original proposal that started the thread On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:17 AM, ce-test wrote: A fork as stipulated should not be necessarily about a group of people leaving OSM , but about we (OSM) deciding to continue in two or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, CTs and tracing GPS tracks

2010-08-18 Thread davespod
Jukka Rahkonen writes: I have understood that uploaded GPS track logs that we have now are effectively public domain. They are facts (even they do not allways tell the truth) and they miss all the creativity so they are not copyrightable. Everybody can use at least individual tracks for

Re: [OSM-talk] A GPS Trace Visualizer

2010-08-18 Thread davespod
There is likely to be a considerable difference between the average speed and the maximum speed, particularly along streets that are badly congested at different times of day. The average speed is useful for routing decisions, but should be tagged separately from the maximum speed. Even