Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Nop
Hi! Ed Loach schrieb: As I think someone else pointed out, if it is abusable then we could abuse it and not lose any data with the switch. Yep, we would just loose the people and the credibility. This could only be considerd a last resort for data of people that still cannot be reached

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Loach
I wrote: As I think someone else pointed out, if it is abusable then we could abuse it and not lose any data with the switch. And before the flood of emails - I forgot the smiley. I'm sure I read somewhere lots of suggestions about what would happen to various items based on whether the

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Jonas Krückel (John07)
Ian Dees schrieb: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. There are some very quick ideas

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 12:48:43 you wrote: /usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool: line 1222: i486-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found make: *** [mod_tile.slo] Error 1 It looks like you don't have gcc installed. You should start with running: $ sudo aptitude build-essential that solved that

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Ian Dees wrote: To get some conversation going: I really like the Fp4.jpg[1] example on the URL you gave, Steve. It's important to make the map (and thus its data) the largest GUI element on the page. The buttons along the top draw my eye up there to see what's available. I also like

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
D Tucny wrote: I must say, I like that one too... but... So many sites and applications these days seem to be going with all the options at the top/bottom and a full width content section, while at the same time most 4:3 screens are being replaced with 16:10 screens... Screen size is of

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
SteveC wrote: The other thing that could be better is the search engine optimisation of the front page so that it shows up higher for some search terms like free maps and stuff. Why do I always want to barf when I hear somebody mention SEO... Anyway some thoughts are jotted down here:

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:38 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: that solved that problem - now one more: /usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool --silent --mode=link i486-linux-gnu-gcc -I. -DLINUX=2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT - I/usr/include/apr-1.0 -I/usr/include/openssl

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 14:07:11 Jon Burgess wrote: as far as I know, all the dependencies are done (I installed mapnik through apt-get install python-mapnik) The current mod_tile code requires you to use a newer version of Mapnik than is available in the debian packages. I'm afraid you

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Celso González
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:16:21AM +0100, Jonas Krückel (John07) wrote: Ian Dees schrieb: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like

Re: [OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Chilton
As Jon says we are on the case, but it is not simple. BTW not done deliberately, more a result of counties/countries being put in relations and then picking up styling by default that was designed with some other instance in mind. This is equally true of rendering names along boundaries which

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=tertiary[_link?] (was: Re: highway=secondary_link)

2009-03-03 Thread Steve Chilton
One particular use of the foo_link info is that all down to secondary have a seperate position in the mapnik rendering order (painter model) - BEFORE all non_link instances. This means that the ugly junctions between say a motorway_link and a less importantly ranked road are now avoided, and

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
wer-ist-roger wrote: First of all we will lose data. We won't get everyone to agree on the new license. No matter why. Maybe they don't approve the new license or we just can't reach them anymore. There's three categories to consider relating to existing data. 1. People who have made edits

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Peat
I can't see how any plan that involves deleting non-trivial amounts of data is ever going to work anyway as who is going to stop people from re-uploading the data with minor changes to tags and all the nodes moved by a metre or two? Kevin Ed Loach wrote: I wrote: As I think someone

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, wer-ist-roger wrote: But we could lose even more! The ones that don't agree on the change might start a fork and that would be the worst thing that could happen. That's why we talk to each other before taking the next step. If people feel rushed or left out then they are likely to fork;

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Roman Neumüller
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:41:38 +0200, talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: Something that's come up a few times in chatting to people is the front page design of the website and how it's been pretty static for a long time. That's pretty cool as nobody has felt the need to hack it I make a

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ian Dees wrote: I really like the Fp4.jpg[1] example on the URL you gave, Steve. I'm a bit concerned about the similarity to maps.cloudmade.com; I would not want people to think that OSM was a CloudMade spin-off ;-) then again there's not much freedom, design-wise, in making a page with a

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/3 Celso González ce...@mitago.net: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:16:21AM +0100, Jonas Krückel (John07) wrote: Ian Dees schrieb: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote:     I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/3 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu D Tucny wrote: I must say, I like that one too... but... So many sites and applications these days seem to be going with all the options at the top/bottom and a full width content section, while at the same time most 4:3 screens are being replaced with

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: There's three categories to consider relating to existing data. 1. People who have made edits and can't be contacted. 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. 3. Large organisations. I have a fourth category to add: 4. People who don't dislike

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
D Tucny wrote: 2009/3/3 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... I guess that makes

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: If I'm on a 1600x1200 desktop, or a 3760x1600 desktop like the one I use at the office, then it won't be. Good for you, because if you displayed our slippy map in 3760x1600 then we would have to block your IP for bulk downloading ;-) Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread David Earl
On 03/03/2009 09:42, D Tucny wrote: 2009/3/3 Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu mailto:t...@compton.nu D Tucny wrote: I must say, I like that one too... but... So many sites and applications these days seem to be going with all the options at the top/bottom and a

[OSM-talk] Rights of way again

2009-03-03 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello everyone, Have had a think about this, primarily as part of developing new styles for the shortly to be relaunched Freemap (UK) / OpenFootMap (worldwide, potentially) OSM site for walkers/hikers/horse riders. I now think the designation tag is a good thing as it simplifies the Mapnik

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Chance
Hey guys gals, get these thoughts onto the wiki! I've added some already: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Front_Page Thanks to Steve the CloudMade designers for giving this some energy! Regards, Tom On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:37:29 +, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. Very pretty in a sort of let's-polish-the-CSS way, which isn't a bad thing at all. In a let's ask for the stars way, though, how about: - a

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Screen size is of course irrelevant to browser window size, unless you're one of those weird web designers that seems to think everybody runs their browser full screen all the time... IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Raphaël Jacquot
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:43:04PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: did you notice lenny has been out for half a month now ? ;) ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Ulf Lamping
Frederik Ramm schrieb: Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: There's three categories to consider relating to existing data. 1. People who have made edits and can't be contacted. 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. 3. Large organisations. I have a fourth category to add:

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 15:51:51 Raphaël Jacquot wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:43:04PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: did you notice lenny has been out for half a month now ? ;) does it work out of the box with lenny? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ulf Lamping wrote: We're only loosing 5% of the data is a very, very strange attitude for me. Not because of the data but because of the people behind that data. Well, we always said we have unlimited free labour ,-) But I just won't continue to spend effort if OSM in the long run

Re: [OSM-talk] problem compilint mod_tile under debian etch

2009-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 14:07:11 you wrote: as far as I know, all the dependencies are done (I installed mapnik through apt-get install python-mapnik) The current mod_tile code requires you to use a newer version of Mapnik than is available in the debian packages. I'm afraid you will

[OSM-talk] canvec2osm v0.05 is now available

2009-03-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi everyone! canvec2osm v0.05 is now available to view comment. You can download it from the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canvec2osm I have gone over in detail the 'transportation' and 'buildings structures' themes; thanks to those on the talk-ca list and everyone who emailed me,

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is MDI. Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen windows overlapping - that's

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is MDI. Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote:  Personally I am feeling excluded from what's going on behind the scenes and I think this is not the way for a project that has open in his name ... If it helps, there _isn't_ anything going on behind the scenes... well, at least not that I know of. Post in German, or

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say Mapnik.. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered using Mapnik anyway :-) I can't imagine what a newbie will think a Mapnik is. Quite. Can someone

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Richard Fairhurst wrote: Sent: 03 March 2009 10:05 AM To: talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO SteveC wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. Very pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Quite. Can someone please come up with names for the two main styles that aren't just the technology that creates them? Mapnik - Standard (or maybe 'Classic') Osmarender - Community cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Rights of way again

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Avis
I am always coming across private roads, which are physically there but not rights of way, and occasionally footpaths which are rights of way but not physically passable! I am surprised that a schema for representing this hasn't been developed already. I have seen access=private suggested for

Re: [OSM-talk] Rights of way again

2009-03-03 Thread Donald Allwright
Tracks known to be private (something the Ordnance Survey do not show, and therefore something that could be a big advantage over OS maps) could be overlaid by a transparent red line to indicate do not go here. I personally would be very wary of this approach, as known to be private can be a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM database. Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement. This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions specifically

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote: I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say Mapnik.. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered using Mapnik anyway :-) I can't imagine what a newbie will think a Mapnik is.

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Dave Stubbs osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk wrote:  I keep wanting to scream every time I see it say Mapnik.. as if three of the layers there aren't actually rendered using Mapnik

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, ti...@home is the name of the distributed rendering system. I see it as the name of the project - the t...@h project produces the map, but the osmarender

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, Derivative Databases Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
I've been reading the Use Cases on the wiki and I'm confused. Can anyone help me with where I'm going wrong? I know there's still some discussion about when something becomes a Produced Work so I'm trying to make the use case below a clear cut Produced Work. I download a substantial amount of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, Derivative Databases Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: Am I missing something obvious, or am I just being sneaky in some way? And is there a way it can be made more obvious in the license if it's actually intended to be that way? I think this is a serious error in the ODbL draft 0.9. (I believe Frederik is of the same

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread MP
A little bit more respect to the people that actually did the mapping work would probably be a very good idea. We're only loosing 5% of the data is a very, very strange attitude for me. Not because of the data but because of the people behind that data. Losing 5% of data will do much more

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO - layer names

2009-03-03 Thread Tom Chance
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 03:12:21 -0800 (PST), Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Andy Allan wrote: Quite. Can someone please come up with names for the two main styles that aren't just the technology that creates them? Mapnik - Standard (or maybe 'Classic') Osmarender - Community A

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, Derivative Databases Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/3 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Dave Stubbs wrote: Am I missing something obvious, or am I just being sneaky in some way? And is there a way it can be made more obvious in the license if it's actually intended to be that way? I think this is a serious error in the ODbL

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO - layer names

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: It's not clear that it's the distributed rendering of the data that makes one more community than the other. That's not quite what I was thinking of - it was more the cartographic style than the mechanics behind it. The Osmarender layer tends to prioritise more POIs, more

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Andy Allan wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Osmarender is the name of the rendering software, ti...@home is the name of the distributed rendering system. I see it as the name of the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. _Assuming_ we can get the bugs sorted in ODbL, and we can't take that for granted yet, this percentage should be very small. except that the ODbL does represent

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: This could potentially alienate anyone who wonders why they are doing surveying for free so that cartographers can sell all-rights- reserved map images based on their data. Yeah, just like I lie in bed at night fretting that people can sell all-rights-reserved, closed-source

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Avis
MP singularita at gmail.com writes: I think we should find some way to avoid deleting at all. For some transitional time (in which the data will be still under cc-by-sa but we will be collecting consent of users for ODbL) mark data coming from/derived from people uncontactable/disagreeing with

[OSM-talk] form input field for GPS Traces

2009-03-03 Thread Roman Neumüller
I recommend to add a form input field for GPS Traces where a user can easily search for a tag, let's say GPS tracks for Paris. You can easily upload your tracks but you cannot easily search. I know that I can of course type a tag into the browser's address field like

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: OJ W wrote: This could potentially alienate anyone who wonders why they are doing surveying for free so that cartographers can sell all-rights- reserved map images based on their data. Yeah, just like I lie in bed

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Pieren
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. _Assuming_ we can get the bugs sorted in ODbL, and we can't take that for granted yet, this

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: except that the ODbL does represent a fundamental change in licensing of map images - previously they were sharealike, but with ODbL it will only require attribution? That is hos the license is understood by most people,

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: It's very confusing now about who, how and what is deleted with the license change. I would appreciate if someone could answer the following questions: It's not been decided. What do you think should happen? Everything is up for debate. ODbL itself is up for debate. As Jordan

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread Jon Stockill
Richard Fairhurst wrote: IMX it's a platform thing. Windows people genuinely do run their web browser, and most things, full screen. Hence the aberration that is MDI. Us Mac people, by contrast, usually have about 57 different non-full screen windows overlapping - that's why Apple came up

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Avis
Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net writes: Under CC-BY-SA, as I'm sure you know, a printed map can only be licensed as copyleft. The cartographer therefore no longer has exclusive rights to their added value (colours, selection of data to include, and so on), which are clearly apparent

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: What you wrote above is a very good argument for it. Rendering the data into a printed map is not a great deal of effort. Anyone can do it and many already do so. There are not many people who would be put off from rendering maps by being unable to make the result

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/3 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. _Assuming_ we can get the bugs sorted in ODbL, and we

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, wer-ist-roger juwelier-onl...@web.dewrote: The only thing I'm missing right now is a little more explenation on the wiki page. For example why needs the database a license at all? The database is nothing without the data init. So first of all why dose the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Gervase Markham
On 03/03/09 09:43, Frederik Ramm wrote: 4. People who don't dislike ODbL per se but dislike the manner in which it was brought about, and thus feel rushed/excluded. People who make sensible suggestions for improvement but see their suggestions brushed away or simply ignored because this would

[OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Gervase Markham
The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month. I don't advocate the N years that the GPLv3 took, but currently the plan says: 2nd

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread MP
I think we should find some way to avoid deleting at all. For some transitional time (in which the data will be still under cc-by-sa but we will be collecting consent of users for ODbL) mark data coming from/derived from people uncontactable/disagreeing with license with some special tag. Let

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread MP
We can make sure the existing-people-problem doesn't get worse meantime by making people creating new accounts agree to dual licensing under CC-BY-SA and ODbL 1.0. Perhaps give option to agree to ODbL also to existing accounts (though do not make it mandatory for now). This could also solve

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/3 MP singular...@gmail.com: I think we should find some way to avoid deleting at all. For some transitional time (in which the data will be still under cc-by-sa but we will be collecting consent of users for ODbL) mark data coming from/derived from people uncontactable/disagreeing with

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month. We've

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gervase Markham wrote: 4. People who don't dislike ODbL per se but dislike the manner in which it was brought about, and thus feel rushed/excluded. People who make sensible suggestions for improvement but see their suggestions brushed away or simply ignored because this would just delay

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/3 Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net: The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month. It may well be too quick. And given

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Matthias Julius
Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net writes: 80n wrote: What percentage of data would other people feel willing to see sacrificed in order to move forward with the new license? I'd be interested to see this related to our userbase and editing stats. If (say) we lose 5%, how many months

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andy Allan wrote: We've been talking about the ODbL for a lng time now, way more than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated April 2008. If you're new to the discussions, then welcome, but don't make like the ODbL has never been seen before and that we're

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works

2009-03-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:40:08AM -0500, Richard Weait wrote: I see SVG as just another image. Raster or Vector; the image format is not a problem. […} The problem is behaviour. In this case the potential problem is Some Jerk trying to use OSM database without living up to their license

Re: [OSM-talk] Add 'Keep right!' to the list of map links in the 'place' template

2009-03-03 Thread Harald Kleiner
Shaun wrote: This crossing of a highway and a railway needs to be tagged as railway=level_crossing Is not quite right as it should also allow railway=crossing. a crossing is a crossing just for pedestrians, while level_crossing is a crossing where larger vehicles can cross too.

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Ed Loach
Martin wrote: Perhaps give option to agree to ODbL also to existing accounts (though do not make it mandatory for now). This could also solve some problems if people leave the project in the meantime (perhaps because they have already mapped their area of interest or whatever ...) I was

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Pieren wrote: It's very confusing now about who, how and what is deleted with the license change. I would appreciate if someone could answer the following questions: My take: - do you delete only data from contributors who explicitly say 'no' to the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: It might be easy to do an automated rendering. That's not what I'm talking What concerns me is hand-drawn cartography. The program code for that, in my case, is something like Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator, which

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:21:02PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote: because of a change to the data, but the (unpublished) tools creating the images, thus nothing of use would be contributed back to the free world with ODbL. Then we need to make sure as many tools as possible are free software, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Möller use...@ulfm.de wrote: John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way

[OSM-talk] Fwd: It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Peter Miller
-- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:04:57 + Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast... To: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Even now we are getting no explanations from the foundation to our questions. Either this is

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread wer-ist-roger
Am Dienstag 03 März 2009 schrieb Gustav Foseid: On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, wer-ist-roger juwelier-onl...@web.dewrote: The only thing I'm missing right now is a little more explenation on the wiki page. For example why needs the database a license at all? The database is nothing

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: The cartographer goes off on a tangent; he does not help us in reaching the goal of a free world map; he is a *user* of the free world map and not a *creator*. It is nice if he makes his work available because it allows us

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wagener
Thank you for your post Frederick! I've been lurking on this discussion for awhile and you just summed up exactly my thoughts on it. Hi, OJ W wrote: Currently OSM surveyors do their thing in the understanding that cartographers will turn the result into something nice that they can use

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: If the cartographers then devise a new license that says my contributions are more important than yours, I should get exclusive rights over my additions to the map with a paintbrush while you shouldn't get exclusive rights over your additions to the map with a GPS then it reduces

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:11:13PM +, OJ W wrote: Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone else could do anything

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Allan
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:14 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: Do we want to see the slippy-map tileservers becoming a commercial battleground for who can make the most money while imposing the most restrictions, where currently it's a nice easy everything is CC-BY-SA level

Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

2009-03-03 Thread OJ W
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: SteveC wrote: I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. Very pretty in a sort of let's-polish-the-CSS way, which isn't a

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Nop
Hi! OJ W schrieb: If anyone who converts map data into a map image is provided with WTFYW license and gets to choose who is permitted to use, view, modify, overlay, and copy their images then lots of websites might decide I paid for hosting and rendering, so only people who agree to these

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Roland Olbricht
Everything is up for debate. For me, this license change resembles the EULA story with openSuse, see http://zonker.opensuse.org/2008/11/26/opensuse-sports-a-new-license-ding-dong-the-eulas-dead/ and http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/opensuse-ends-eula At least in Germany, this EULA story

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:04:57 + Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast... To: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org Even

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread Gervase Markham
On 03/03/09 18:23, Andy Allan wrote: We've been talking about the ODbL for a lng time now, way more than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated April 2008. If you're new to the discussions, then welcome, but don't make like the ODbL has never been seen before and

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Tobias Knerr
Frederik Ramm wrote: I have never mapped anything thinking hey, maybe someone else is going to make a nice map from this that I can then use. Not one single time. I don't know if that makes me an exception. Most people I talked to were enthusiastic about the data being collected, and were

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: [routing source code] I saw that as a bit of a loophole in the license which is unfortunate but rather difficult to close Ok, that's consistent. Extreme, perhaps, but consistent. But: [...] we can just declare that it should meet sharelike standards to ensure that OSM players

Re: [OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

2009-03-03 Thread 80n
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.netwrote: On 03/03/09 18:23, Andy Allan wrote: We've been talking about the ODbL for a lng time now, way more than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated April 2008. If you're new to the

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread MP
- if you decide to delete contributions and those contributions are only part of the history of objects, do you rollback  to a previous version of these objects ? Rollback to the last version before any changes incompatible with the new licence are made. This could be perhaps optimized: if

Re: [OSM-talk] License plan

2009-03-03 Thread Simon Ward
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:33:56AM +0100, MP wrote: This could be perhaps optimized: if user A creates some highway=road, user B changes it to residential and user C changes it to secondary. A and C agrees to new license, B won't. But contribution of B was completely removed by C's edit, so it

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