Serge Wroclawski wrote:
I go back to my central point: We're spending a lot of time
blocking people and explaining to people why they're blocked.
Let's find a way to turn this adversarial relationship into a
cooperative one. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this?
I do.
If I read you
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote:
Serge Wroclawski wrote:
I go back to my central point: We're spending a lot of time
blocking people and explaining to people why they're blocked.
Let's find a way to turn this adversarial relationship into a
Hi,
On 10/12/11 12:50, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
So if I read you right, you're saying if I register a domain and buy a
server, you'll hand over administration of the OpenStreetMap
Foundation to me.
I don't think that everybody who runs a not-for-profit tileserver should
be handed over
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 01:53:46PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
On 10/12/11 12:50, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
So if I read you right, you're saying if I register a domain and buy a
server, you'll hand over administration of the OpenStreetMap
Foundation to me.
I don't think that everybody who
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Op 09-10-11 19:40, Frederik Ramm schreef:
On 10/09/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote:
OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that
commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more).
I'm surprised to hear that
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
wrote:
Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free
Hi,
On 10/11/2011 09:00 PM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
It's also a fact that a lot of people/organizations, when we tell them
Run your own tileserver, don't want to. And they also don't want to
use a third party tile service. They don't want to because they aren't
interested in a Mapworld Map or a
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
Yes but there is no OpenStreetMap map. There is an OpenStreetMap database.
The osm default mapnik render is the OSM map- let's not squabble
over words. The style is part of the OSM repository. Do you have a
better name?
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net
wrote:
Please bear in mind that, even if we wanted to offer free tiles to every
commercial app in the world, our hosts would not permit us to
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Op 09-10-11 16:39, Richard Weait schreef:
Providing commercial tiles is not a problem that the OSMF should
try to solve.
OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that
commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more).
Hi,
On 10/09/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote:
OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that
commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more).
I'm surprised to hear that from someone who usually doesn't trust OSMF
one bit!
RichardWeait is right in saying that
Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
- reduce services available to the community
- hurt the community by competing against it
Why do I think that having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is such a
bad idea?
Hi Richard, yes I can see there are some issues
Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
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Absolutely. This may be a rather controversial opinion, but would it maybe
be a good idea to offer Qt like licencing for use of the OSM tile server?
Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
- reduce services
One could set up an entirely separate not-for-profit organisation e.g.
Openstreetmap-Applications that is geared towards providing OSM based user
oriented services, such as tileservers, user friendly map interfaces,... It
could charge commercial customers a fee proportionally to operating costs
Hi,
On 10/09/2011 09:59 PM, Kai Krueger wrote:
One could set up an entirely separate not-for-profit organisation e.g.
Openstreetmap-Applications that is geared towards providing OSM based user
oriented services, such as tileservers, user friendly map interfaces,... It
could charge commercial
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nick Whitelegg
nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote:
Richard Weait said, earlier
Having the OSMF provide commercial tiles is a bad idea. It would:
- reduce services available to the community
- hurt the community by competing against it
Hi Richard, yes I can see
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