Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 09.04.2018 um 00:30 schrieb Michael Kugelmann: > On 08.04.2018 at 14:12 Simon Poole wrote: >> PS: that doesn't mean that having our own clean copy as a backup >> wouldn't be a good idea, > I very much encourage the OSMF to host a copy of the license as the > OSMF distributes their data (=> th

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread john whelan
Looking at the methodology in the associated blog it appears to include villages that are connected with a path, track or tertiary highway and since it was run in 2016 may possibly be a little out of date. Can anyone think of a JOSM search that would pick them out? Thanks John On Sun, 8 Apr 2018

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread Michael Kugelmann
On 08.04.2018 at 14:12 Simon Poole wrote: PS: that doesn't mean that having our own clean copy as a backup wouldn't be a good idea, I very much encourage the OSMF to host a copy of the license as the OSMF distributes their data (=> the raw OSM data)  using this license. This could be clearly m

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Pierre Béland
My experience from all the humanitarian responses. Yes, it is important to know the territory and adapt. For the North of Mali humanitarian response in early 2013, people had difficulty to identify villages, flooded by water on the available images with the rainy season that last 6 months. In d

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Warin
In Papua New Guinea there are villages without roads ... people there travel by foot, plane or boat! The terrain is such that vehicle roads, even for bicycles, is impractical. I don't have detailed knowledge of Africa to say if these villages could be real or not... but I would hesitate to del

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2018 10:26 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Not only that, someone has already picked them out: Looking a bit more at the list, I wonder if we should maybe delete all nodes that * were imported before 2010 from GNS * were never used since * have a "fixme=no population estimate available,

Re: [OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2018 10:16 PM, john whelan wrote: > If you look in parts of Africa there are a number of villages on the map > but no connecting highways.  Bing imagery is available for many of them > that show highways that connect them. > > Is there an easy way to pick them out? Not only that, so

[OSM-talk] Villages with no highways

2018-04-08 Thread john whelan
If you look in parts of Africa there are a number of villages on the map but no connecting highways. Bing imagery is available for many of them that show highways that connect them. Is there an easy way to pick them out? Thanks John ___ talk mailing li

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread Stefano
Hi, I linked this thread to Rufus Pollock and the opendatacommons website is now up again. The OKFN chat is here https://gitter.im/okfn/chat Regards, Stefano 2018-04-08 14:18 GMT+02:00 James : > Just because you are not the curator of the license doesnt mean you cant > display the full legal tex

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread James
Just because you are not the curator of the license doesnt mean you cant display the full legal text somewhere else...The text wont change. GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc projects usually distribute their software with a license text file with the full legal text and dont depend on 1 single point of failure

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 08.04.2018 um 13:30 schrieb James: > why not host it on the osmf website? Because we don't own the domain (which is what most references to the actual text use) and are not the curators of the licence (aka we could in principle simply covertly change the text of the license, having a third pa

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread James
why not host it on the osmf website? On Sun, Apr 8, 2018, 5:46 AM Simon Poole, wrote: > Currently I'm pointing to > http://web.archive.org/web/20180317184051/https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ > however as the opendatacommons.org links are all over the place that > isn't really a solutio

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] ODbL text

2018-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Currently I'm pointing to http://web.archive.org/web/20180317184051/https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ however as the opendatacommons.org links are all over the place that isn't really a solution. OKI seems to be aware of the issue, but that is about all what we know (they seem to be intend