Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: in some regions/countries like the EU there is also a database protection and those aerial images are / might be considered a database. Then all photos are databases... ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi: different contracts. Yahoo obviously paying more because of more open licence Yahoo also seems to have new data that's 3 years old, so they may get it for the same price (or cheaper), but have more rights to derive data from it?

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fi: John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com writes: 2009/11/2 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com: in some regions/countries like the EU there is also a database protection and those aerial images are / might be considered

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Yeah well, maybe in the US.  In France you can copyright a building and anyone who takes a picture of the building and uses it for commercial purposes without permission is committing copyright infringement.  Maybe they'd be willing to extend that to roads, at

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Shalabh shalab...@gmail.com: I will leave this open to discussion but I thought it better to bring this to everybody's notice, so JOSM can be made more user friendly. You can already convert a GPX layer to a OSM layer and then upload the results, just right click on the layer, however

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-01 Thread John Smith
2009/11/2 Dan Homerick danhomer...@gmail.com: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: You can already convert a GPX layer to a OSM layer and then upload the results, just right click on the layer, however it can be very tedious to remove points

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-02 Thread John Smith
2009/11/3 Michael Barabanov michael.baraba...@gmail.com: Also, a free-hand drawing mode (e.g. press-down left mouse button and drag) in JOSM would go a long way towards faster tracing. Clicking to add one point at a time is pretty slow. +1 ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-02 Thread John Smith
2009/11/3 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No.  I was going to say not unless OSM abandons CC-BY-SA in favor of public domain, but that's not going to ever happen either, so no. Google has no problem with saying where the data comes from, they already do this by commercial companies. This isn't the

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-02 Thread John Smith
2009/11/3 Anthony o...@inbox.org: True.  I should have said a non-copyleft license rather than public domain.  CC-BY would probably be easier to implement than public domain, actually. Actually that's a good point, with CC-BY-SA it's obvious where it came from, public domain can take a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-03 Thread John Smith
2009/11/3 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2009/11/3 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 2009/11/3 Michael Barabanov michael.baraba...@gmail.com: Also, a free-hand drawing mode (e.g. press-down left mouse button and drag) in JOSM would go a long way towards faster tracing

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for JOSM

2009-11-03 Thread John Smith
2009/11/3 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: 2009/11/3 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Gimp lets you plot freehand or if you hold shift will do a straight line, I'm sure there is a number of modifiers that would make a free hand mode useful... Gimp is a bitmap-based-programm

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-10 Thread John Smith
It doesn't look like CC-BY-SA is a limiting factor to google: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/google_australia/ This is just one of the new data sets that Google Australia is planning to incorporate into its Google Maps platform, courtesy of a major open access

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-12 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I realize the toilet map is serious, but I was more interested in whether or not Google is in fact using the data under CC-BY-SA, and if so for what. At a guess they'd only be copying the data, not improving upon it so they can just say there is nothing to

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-12 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Just copying it to their data center so it can sit on the hard drive doing nothing?  I'm mainly interested in whether or not their lawyers think they can do a mashup using CC-BY-SA data plus say proprietary aerial imagery, without releasing the aerial imagery

Re: [OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

2009-11-12 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That might be the case if the data is a single image, but if there is a base layer plus a data layer then what? Ultimately it is made into a single image before it is displayed

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: The is_in tag is not a lot of use either due to it being inconsistent. I thought is_in is depreciated and replaced by polygons? While I don't think this list would be worth piping back in to the database, it might be useful for knowing what were

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk: You could calculate node density (nodes/km2) and assume that node density will decay from the centre of a town to the edge.  This would work for the nodes in ways, since 'in town' will have more streets than 'out of town'. A rural area

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: My first though was for an generated list rather than entered boarders, however thinking again this might need some human intervention to work properly. Boundaries are just as much arbitary as they are geographically based etc I'm not trying to

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/13 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: I like it, but I wonder whether the place=city should be on the way rather than on some miscellaneous node. I'm not sure I like the bodge that is admin_level's I had always thought of them as government administration borders. It's also tagged as

Re: [OSM-talk] does one need to download the planet to use osmosis

2009-11-13 Thread John Smith
2009/11/14 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org: hi, I want to use osmosis to download and extract from the planet. I tried giving the web address of the planet latest file, but get an error saying 'http:/openstre../planet_latest.. not found'. Note that the error gives the address as http:/  

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Potlatch 1.2f has native support for NearMap

2009-11-19 Thread John Smith
2009/11/20 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: Who's up for a virtual mapping party with this amazing imagery: Currently we're trying to completely map out Carnarvon, which is a small town about 1000km from the nearest city.

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo imagery through wmsplugin not displaying in JOSM on Ubuntu Linux

2009-11-20 Thread John Smith
2009/11/20 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: The command line I am using for the plugin is 'gnome-web-photo --mode=photo --format=ppm {0} /dev/stdout | pnmcrop -white | pnmtopng' I had no luck with gnome-web-photo on ubuntu at all, just get and compile webkit-image, it's fairly trivial to do

Re: [OSM-talk] What Streets are in what Places

2009-11-20 Thread John Smith
Was there some sort of consensus on how to tag these at all? Even though I don't think they should be automatically guessed at, and even though there is boundaries for most places in Australia, some times the towns out grow the boundaries and it'd be useful to tag these exceptions.

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-20 Thread John Smith
2009/11/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: If we had an application, that could read osm and render on the fly we could have any zoom level we like, including zoom levels between zoom levels, (ie vector graphics) In theory Potlatch already does some of this, buts it written to enter data not

Re: [OSM-talk] Isn't it time for a higher zoom level?

2009-11-21 Thread John Smith
2009/11/21 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: But most people have more CPU than they really know what to do with these days. Actually it's going the other way, mobile phones and netbooks are becoming the most common internet connected devices. ___

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Idea: shp2osm2gpx2donateBYseparate login

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/23 Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatra...@gmail.com: Hi everyone, What do you think of the idea to convert the shp files to OSM, then to GPX and upload it that way? I don't think this would be a good idea, they aren't GPS traces, it would also remove or make more difficult if things need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Does Google use automated tracing from satellite imagery ?

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/23 Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org: So is anyone aware of automated tracing techniques that Google might be using ? Is automated tracing from legally available imagery something I was under the impression that google used their mapmaker technology and had employees, and since

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com: - onboard GPS precision The iPhone has a poor GPS chip from what I've read. - a bit bigger and heavier than iPhone There is more than one phone that runs Android, some are very similar in weight/size to the iPhone, also some have a

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: If anyone has experience with any of the two and additionally the Palm Pre, I'd love to see a comparison too, and especially if there are any OSM related apps.  My experience with Pre so far: Is there a GSM version of the Pre yet?

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Nevermind.  That's about half an inch, and it doesn't seem to be less than a pixel (at my latitude/longitude, anyway).  For some reason last time i calculated it I thought it was more. You should use metric it's easier since metric distances were based on a

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Maybe ~= 100km, but == 60 nm. One nautical mile is exactly one minute of Because they estimated the circumference to 36,000km, but it's over 40,000km arc. Say again which system was naturally suited for all things geo? 1 nautical mile is exactly

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.3

2009-11-23 Thread John Smith
2009/11/24 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 1 nautical mile is exactly 1852m Sorry, it was set to 1853m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] iPhone vs Android - OSM shootout

2009-11-24 Thread John Smith
2009/11/25 Woll w...@2-islands.com: 3) Battery life Not long enough for day trips. The battery runs out in a few hours, even with ordinary usage of the iPhone, so on a day trip with a 2 hour car drive you can't map both the outward and inward journeys. Here's an iPhone negaitve I didn't see

Re: [OSM-talk] Duplicate placeholder IDs in the latest JOSM tested (2510)

2009-11-24 Thread John Smith
2009/11/25 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.com: Sorry for the confusion. I mixed up 2510 (a random recent commit) and 2255 (7 weeks old) in my browser and thought that the current JOSM tested had just been released based on 2510. Obviously it's not *that* big a deal if it has been out in

Re: [OSM-talk] Bridge on Hiking Trails

2009-11-25 Thread John Smith
2009/11/26 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: I assume layer is 0 if I don't add the layer tag. Yes, which is usually anything at ground level. Hopefully this is the correct thing to assume because otherwise things will break if I have a bridge with no layer tag and a another bridge No

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread John Smith
I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't it be simpler from a logical point of view to treat ways as a grouping of lanes and those lanes can be assigned tags that differ from the ways, such as

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-27 Thread John Smith
2009/11/28 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I've been seeing this thread develop, and apart from trying to use areas and relations in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways wouldn't it be simpler from a logical

Re: [OSM-talk] tags for autorickshaw

2009-11-28 Thread John Smith
2009/11/28 Konrad Skeri kon...@skeri.com: They could be put as fee=prepaid/metered/unmetered Perhaps not optimal, but not entierly wrong. metering=prepaid/metered/unmetered ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping everything as areas

2009-11-29 Thread John Smith
A thought occurred to me, that people are only planning to use areas because editors don't easily allow for widths to be entered graphically. I wonder how much work it would be if you could draw the way and then stretch it sideways to fill out the extact area you wanted covered and then the

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-12-01 Thread John Smith
2009/12/2 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: IMHO, the US English/Australian English issue here is spurious. Australians certainly understand and use the word ford to mean a low water crossing. I disagree, I've only ever heard them refered to as causeways and fords up until I started mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread John Smith
2009/12/3 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I find the current practice of duplicating minor roads when there is a median strip pretty unsatisfactory. Even disregarding the effort, the end result never renders well: usually the street name is written twice, the one-way arrows get messy etc.

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread John Smith
2009/12/3 Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@googlemail.com: Unless you want to write routines for pre-processing two almost-parallel ways back into a single way so it can be rendered neatly, I suggest it's a mapping problem. Don't make work for other people if you don't have to. I thought

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] putting Q150 survey marks on osm

2009-12-03 Thread John Smith
2009/12/4 nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au: These marks are part tourist attraction, part survey control. Most are located where a car with an in-built GPS can drive right up to it, so the driver can check the accuracy of their GPS signal. The Gympie co-ords are wonky to say the least, it

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread John Smith
2009/12/4 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Again, this proposal is not primarily about rendering. That's a nice benefit in some cases. The goals are: 1) More appropriate data structure How is this more appropriate, you are loosing real world information to improve rendering. 2) Better

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided roads proposal

2009-12-03 Thread John Smith
2009/12/4 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: The main focus is *adding* information to roads currently mapped as single (non-divided) roads. Gaining information. Not losing. There are a huge number of places that this will add information that was not previously mapped. This opens up a can of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/6 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Creative Commons, of course, has practising copyright lawyers too. They have said that CC-BY-SA isn't applicable to data and we shouldn't use it. There has also been a lot of data imported from Government sources that released data as CC-BY-SA

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No sense in wasting everyone's time if the OSMF members aren't going to agree to it anyway? I'm pretty sure he meant asking contributors before threatening to remove their contributions. It'll still be there.  In perfect form for the fork which will

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Are you also living on planet Frederik? Out of all the crazy claims this has to be the most crazy. Where have you been the past year of consultations? How is insulting people going to help things? ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. And you are coming off just as unrational as you are claiming they are being and not helping fence sitters one bit. If you want a dictatorship on the matter say so, otherwise you or others wanting the change

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Click through type agreements have already been deemed as unenforceable, Can you provide me with a few links to back that up (off-list or on the legal list if you think it's too off-topic)?  To my knowledge the enforceability is spotty and unclear. Trying

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Read the wikipedia entry on tit for tat, and iterated prisoners dilemma. That's just it, I'm trying to avoid the conjecture in coming up with an opinion on if this is a good thing or not for me and my contributions or not. ie am I wasting time contributing

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Might want to check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click-through_license .  A quick scan finds one case where the license was found unenforceable (because it was unconscionable), and several where it was found enforceable. As I said, the judgement I'm thinking

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I prefer 1.  Of course, what works for you isn't the same as what works for me.  I'm fine with everything being public domain.  Why an open content project would try to place restrictions on the use of a collection of facts is beyond me. If GPLv3 was inspired

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] my views on the ODbL

2009-12-05 Thread John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: What, you say, you already had that right anyway?  Well, here in the US, I already have the right to copy and redistribute the OSM database. Depends what laws the laws in your jurisdictions are derived from. Sometimes it's anything goes unless you aren't

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-06 Thread John Smith
2009/12/7 Anthony o...@inbox.org: But I would argue that a selection of a finite set from an infinite possible nodes that can represent the centerline of a road is a sufficiently creative endeavor that is automatically afforded copyright according to the US copyright system. Inaccuracy isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-06 Thread John Smith
2009/12/7 Graham Seaman gra...@theseamans.net: This is the aspect of the whole thing I find most worrying too: this signover of rights to a centralised body makes external attack much more possible. Is it really necessary for the OSMF to have both functions (management and rights ownership)?

Re: [OSM-talk] ??? Compatibility of OSM w/ CC-BY-SA sources ???

2009-12-07 Thread John Smith
2009/12/8 Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com:    My major concern with a license change is compatibility with CC-BY-SA sources such as dbpedia,  wikipedia,  etc.    So far as I'm concerned,  dbpedia and freebase are the core of a linked data space that assigns taxonomic identifiers to (most)

Re: [OSM-talk] Coastlines and Structures

2009-12-07 Thread John Smith
2009/12/8 David Fawcett david.fawc...@gmail.com: I have some questions about standard practices for coastlines and structures that define or protrude from the coast.  Is there a specific place for discussion of this topic area, or is this list the best place? For tagging, there is now a

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-07 Thread John Smith
2009/12/8 Anthony o...@inbox.org: But if it's copyrighted, who owns the copyright on it?  Each person who uses the tag?  The people who participate in the list discussion?  The OSMF? You own the copyright on your changes but you also agreed to release it at present under CC-BY-SA, as does

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread John Smith
2009/12/8 Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com: John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com writes: If GPLv3 was inspired by Tivo, I think this license is somewhat inspired by Google and other commercial mapping companies, who have a habbit of sucking in all the data they can get their hands on and not giving

Re: [OSM-talk] Deleting Sections of AND data for India

2009-12-09 Thread John Smith
2009/12/9 Shalabh shalab...@gmail.com: Is there anyway the AND data can be segmented such that it can be deleted in sections and a new track with correct attributes put in as and when a mapper gets the correct data? Now I am a BIG 0 as a programmer, so if this is a no go, what else can be

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-10 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Anthony o...@inbox.org: It's not.  However, if we could convince businesses to give back to the community, it'd be better. If you feel that way, the ODBL would in principal be the better option to ensure it happens with a stick just to make sure.

Re: [OSM-talk] When will the next mapnik coastline update be?

2009-12-10 Thread John Smith
It's slightly annoying now that things render so quickly that the coastlines don't. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I see no evidence that that's the case.  I don't think attempting to impose a contractual agreement on others without their consent is going to work, and I think there will be significant negative side-effects to such immoral behavior. I don't think immoral

Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Paul Wagener osm-t...@paulwagener.nl: This might sound like a crazy idea, but can't we just ask businesses nicely about giving us their added data back? It has already got us this far. You'd be surprised how far a little mutual trust can get you. Isn't that in essence what licenses

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Fwd: Re: Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: so we don't need imported data? --  Forwarded Message  -- Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 From: paul youlten paul.youl...@gmail.com To: Liz ed...@billiau.net Liz, The coastline

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/12 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: If the intent of OSM is to represent the centerline of a road as accurately as possible (and presumably other land features too) then this is another reason to consider dropping the SA requirement - or dual licencing or dual databases or being

Re: [OSM-talk] View CSV file data from a GPS on a map

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 wonderling em...@verizon.net: Where are there instructions for viewing data points? The format is: ., ., ., comments The need is to evaluate the validity of the points before publishing. Convert it to an osm file and load it in JOSM as a new layer

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:17 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I have with that is my labour is used to commercially benefit others and in turn nothing they do would have to be returned to the community. So you want to be given

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:56 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's the issue I have, I have no problem giving back to the community, but I don't want commercial companies just sucking up all the data and not giving hardly anything back

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-12 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 Anthony o...@inbox.org: If CC-BY-SA can enforce what?  Attribution?  If geodata isn't copyrightable, then it doesn't matter if the derivative works are released under CC-BY-SA. CC-BY is attribution, CC-BY-SA is Attribution with Share Alike. While geodata might not be, the meta data

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: So John, given you wish to don't want commercial companies just sucking up all the data and not giving hardly anything back in return if they extend the map - I never said at any point I agree with ODBL, I said I agreed with the intent.

Re: [OSM-talk] When will the next mapnik coastline update be?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/13 Jon Burgess jburgess...@googlemail.com: On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:10 +1000, John Smith wrote: It's slightly annoying now that things render so quickly that the coastlines don't. I ran the coastcheck utility last night to update the coastline shapefiles on the main Mapnik layer

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Anthony o...@inbox.org: If the the data is not copyrightable, it is PD, and no license is going to magically make it not PD. Not all legal systems are derived from the British/Common Law legal system, there are others that instead of having all rights by default you only have rights

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No, I mean it isn't needed. If everyone believed it wasn't needed we wouldn't be having this discussion... I believe you added something to my comments. What did I add? You said cc-by-sa can't protect geodata (in your jurisdiction), so it can't prevent it

Re: [OSM-talk] Slightly OT: Learning GIS?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com: So where does someone like me begin? Is there a good book I can read? A video course online? Are you more interested in theory aspects or practical aspects? I realize that many universities offer a GIS class, but I'm wondering if this is

Re: [OSM-talk] Slightly OT: Learning GIS?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com: Practical, but knowing a little theory helps know how to apply the practical. Theory only helps to point, practical is different because you are dealing with software implementations of GIS, someone was making a mapnik virtual image that might be as

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Anthony o...@inbox.org: I certainly don't remember saying that, and it doesn't sound like something I'd say.  As I have said before, to protect my geodata, I use backups. I was extrapolating based on what you stated earlier, backups are a protection of sorts, but the discussion is

Re: [OSM-talk] Slightly OT: Learning GIS?

2009-12-13 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com: also something to do with 'geometry'.  There are obviously interesting things in GIS that are not related to graphics like the datums and projections and geometry on a sphere and I don't know where one learns these, I know little about them.

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: What is *materially removed* from you if your labour is used to commercially benefit others and/or commercial companies [are] just sucking up all the data and not giving hardly anything back in return if they extend the map? I'm not a source

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: And the copyleft mindset of the LWP continues to perpetuate substantial legal [...] restrictions on [...] use.  So really, the OSM project has failed to deliver on this latent demand. I've seen the same comments regarding GPL v BSD licenses,

Re: [OSM-talk] Why the BSD vs GPL debate is irrelevant to OSM

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: Google has a lot of data and are good at getting more, be it official or crowdsourced. It would be a huge loss for the collective knowledge of everyone if this data escapes the virus. I can't afford that loss, maybe you can. What is being lost

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: I've seen the links and I trust I'm clear on what the LWP is up to. However that's not what I signed up for, to be honest. I mean it's an OpenStreetMap not a CopyleftMap or anything that unambiguous. I got sold on the blurb on that wiki page

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Peter Childs pchi...@bcs.org: CCbySA says you must attribute where it came from, ODbl make no such demand. So by following ODbl you break CCbySA. and the law is about black and white not shades of grey. CC-BY is attributation, CC-BY-SA is attributation + sharing changes under

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: I suppose you would have hated contributing to Linux then. GPL has similar sharing required by ODBL, if you had said BSD you might have had a point, MS and others have taken BSD code and given nothing back, they have recently been shown to have

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: I agree! (-: When pondering this earlier today I realised one of the fundamental ambiguities is: Is freedom/openness enforced on the dataset *itself*? Or Is freedom/openness enforced on your right to *use* that dataset? I'd always assumed

Re: [OSM-talk] Why the BSD vs GPL debate is irrelevant to OSM

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: What is being lost though? When Google sucks up data what's being lost is supporting the greater good, Google just sucks up all the data they can for their own good

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: And that requirement has a chilling effect (holds you back) on some productive ways. Hypothetical example: I want to put my fast food joints on a map. If I licenced from a typical commercial provider, I pay a one time consideration, produce my

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/14 Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au: Well it got mixed up as soon as most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions collided with the existence of ShareAlike. No, your assumptions are bumping into the share a like provision, you assumed something that

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: My primary reason for not wanting to release my data as PD is that I don't want to support OSM if it decides to go with the ODbL.  A street map licensed under ODbL is not something I find worthy of my (uncompensated) support, and the fact that the project

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Again, I don't remember saying that.  And if I did, I apologize. Sorry if I'm mistaken, but I'm pretty sure you mentioned it. In any case, if OSM decides to take the position that my contributions are not copyrightable, and therefore they are free to

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: CC-BY-SA says this: You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. The ODbL attempts to do exactly that. Correct, but the reason for ODBL is

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Ah, but I don't plan on ever visiting the OSM website when and if they switch to the ODbL. I doubt just visiting the OSM website without some kind of click wrapper similar to nearmap.com does would force you to agree with ODBL for just using the website. On

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: CC-BY-SA isn't enforcible on anything.  It grants rights, it doesn't take them away. It's a license, if you break licenses on software you can be taken to court to make sure you do follow them in future and are punished for past digressions. So while it grants

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No, if you break copyright law you can be taken to court to make sure you don't break copyright law in the future.  If break licenses, then, well, it depends on the license.  In the case of CC-BY-SA, if you breach the terms You are confusing contracts with

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Read Jacobsen v. Katzer, and the commentary on it, and then get back to us. Wasn't there some case where one company sued another for not making source code available as required?

Re: [OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Browsewrap may or may not be enforceable.  And even if it is enforceable any judgment for damages would probably be minimal.  But I'm willing to abide by the terms of service of the sites that I visit, at least when I take the time to read them.  Not doing so

Re: [OSM-talk] Ditches

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: In a park is a ditch.  There is a very small bridge going over the ditch. I've tagged the ditch with barrier=ditch.  Should the ditch be layer=-1? Even though the park is layer=0?

Re: [OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

2009-12-14 Thread John Smith
2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No, if you break copyright law you can be taken to court to make sure you don't break copyright law in the future.  If break licenses

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