Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: this is valid for England and maybe Scotland and Wales (and probably some other countries), but it is not working on a worldwide basis. Your definition would in most of central Europe not be functioning: routers would lead pedestrians in areas where they are

Re: [OSM-talk] New Video Tutorial: Presets in Potlatch

2010-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Margie Roswell wrote: I admit to being disappointed in viewership on this one. Can anyone help to get the word out about this video? Video's great! A couple of good places to promote it would be: - newbies@ mailing list - http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ (log on with your usual - Potlatch

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tobias Knerr wrote: IMHO, the argument is perfectly valid. The problem with highway= cycleway and pedestrians isn't that adding a foot=no would be too much effort. The problem is that some people, while they wouldn't mind adding it, don't know that they need to add it in the first place.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: well, the chap that first used cycleway might have been an Englishman, and might have had in mind that pedestrians are allowed, when tagging highway=cycleway, but there is absolutely no logic or natural meaning for cycleways to deduct access rights for pedestrians.

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

2010-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: OK. And where can I find this information? If it is not findable, it will not be used. Well, there's the rub. As a project, we are crap at documentation. Beyond crap. How anyone ever manages to get started with OSM amazes me. (And if you'll excuse me a hobby-horse,

Re: [OSM-talk] New Video Tutorial: Presets in Potlatch

2010-02-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Dave F. wrote: Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: Those who know about the video are probably using JOSM. Potlach's target audience who would benefit from the video probably does not read the mailing lists... Right; and we don't have opposable thumbs either. :-( I said

[OSM-talk] Fun with duplicate nodes

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
We have a bit of a push on at the moment to eliminate duplicate nodes - i.e. where there's erroneously two nodes in the exact same place, which should be a single node so they're joined. == Identifying duplicate nodes == Some of you will have seen Matt's map, which shows dupes and is

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM GeoData License Status

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: At the moment, we are trying to address some concerns raised by OSM and OSMF members about the new Contributor Terms. These have been slightly modified and the latest version can be seen here http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms This is much

Re: [OSM-talk] Fun with duplicate nodes

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: What's the 'flashing' nodes for? It appears to be for new nodes only. Is it just to highlight that they're new or is there something else? It's for dupe nodes. But there was a bit of a cockup on my part earlier where newly saved ones were getting it too - ooops. cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM GeoData License Status

2010-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: Is goes 'edited the project' then as far as 'wrote a wikipage', 'submitted a bug', 'edited the source'. Or is exclusively to geo-data? We're only talking about the licensing of geodata here. There's no reasoning for a coder to have a say over data which they haven't

Re: [OSM-talk] will walkingpapers printed on black and white work?

2010-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: The PDF that a scanner produces will normally just contain a big embedded bitmap image. No idea how easy that is to extract though. Some scanner software produces a composite PDF with both vector content (OCRed text) and the bitmap image in front. The vector content is

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: An observation of a deficiency isn't really a complaint. I actually do want to help with PL2 (if there are things I can do), but it won't be for the next 6 weeks. \o/ If you can code ActionScript 3 (or would like to learn), the world's your oyster. If not, there are

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM will move to Java6

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If you are in the unfortunate situation of having willfully chained yourself to one Hardware/OS supplier and that supplier is unwilling to release Java6 for your platform, it may be time to finally ditch ...JOSM in anticipation of imminent Potlatch 2 wondrousness.

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Sweet. How hard can ActionScript be, really? (I've done plenty of C, Delphi, Java etc in the distant past, usually the difficulty is not the language, it's learning the codebase.) Exactly. If you know Java then you shouldn't find AS3 much of a stretch at all - think of

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM will move to Java6

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I'm not sure; my guess is that the world is silently waiting for Potlatch 2 to be released and will *then* complain about everything that *still* doesn't work. (My info comes from several mentions on, you guessed it, talk-de.) Oh, I'd guessed that much. No-one outside

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributing to PL2 (was: Re: Thoughts on OSM design, and looking forward and back)

2010-03-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Is it worse or better than the PL1 codebase ?:) Do you want a serious answer to that? :) The codebase is a lot more proper: there's packages and private/protected variables and all of that. You could probably write unit tests for it if you like that sort of

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM will move to Java6

2010-03-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: have you thought about deprecating the live-mode in PL1 though? I really think it is a pain and was happy when you wrote in another thread that it will not be available in PL2. Indeed, you've mentioned one or two (million) times before you're no fan of it. :) To

Re: [OSM-talk] Getting 403-Forbidden from my app that WAS on sale onthe appstore

2010-03-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: I mean obviously the intent is to limit the volume of calls, but we've tended to do that by saying that the point is that it should be used as part of an editing cycle where you are fetching data with the intention of changing it rather than just in order to use it in a

[OSM-talk] Reporting bugs (was Re: What do you wish you'd known?)

2010-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tirkon wrote: I.e. potlatch destroys the correct order of the ways in a route relation, i.e. if you divide a way into two parts. Serious point: if you find a bug or issue or what-have-you in any editor, you need to actually tell us about it rather than just mithering unhappily. I honestly

[OSM-talk] Reporting bugs and documentation

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tirkon wrote: Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net wrote: I honestly didn't know that the relation ordering issue was the case until last week when Frederik pointed it out on this list. I'm now told there'd been some prior discussion of it on talk-de but that doesn't really help

Re: [OSM-talk] Reporting bugs and documentation

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: maybe JOSM's default display style doesn't visualise relations as clearly as Potlatch, I don't know May I humbly suggest that, as the lead author of one of OSM's main editors, you at least look at the competition? I mean I don't demand

[OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey

2010-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
For those who don't live on Twitter: The UK Government has just announced its decision on freeing Ordnance Survey data. Full document is at http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/corporate/pdf/1528263.pdf Quick summary of what'll be released: - medium-resolution vector data (Meridian2),

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(Trolley)

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, we could always use handcart, rather than cart, so as to specify that we don't mean the horse-drawn variety. And then I suggest we go to hell in it[1]. cheers Richard [1] otherwise known as the tagging@ list -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC -(Trolley)

2010-04-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: You might want to wikifiddle a bit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Proposal_Page That page and others still suggest that the talk list be used for tag discussions... Good point - had spotted one of those references but not the other. Fixed. May I therefore

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

2010-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Does OSM have any guidelines about software that is hosted on the wiki? Can people just make software under any license and then put it on the wiki for free advertising ? It is not in any sense hosted on the wiki. If it were hosted on OSMF servers

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

2010-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: I can see both points of this argument, but while James seems to be asking for consistency within OSM, everyone seems to be making excuses as to why there doesnt have to be consistency. Welcome to OSM. We're not consistent. We're a glorious anarchic mess. That's why the

Re: [OSM-talk] Philosophy about Autorouting for Cyclists and new key class:bicycle

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Felix Hartmann wrote: Sadly though many people in OSM are not able to leave their small focussed mind and cannot espace their caged mind and try to use a motorist perspective to do bicycle autorouting (e.g. CycleStreets http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CycleStreets or

[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Occasionally the subject of Flash and free software comes up here in relation to Potlatch. I would encourage people to sign the petition at http://openplayer.net/ encouraging Adobe to make the Flash Player open source. cheers Richard ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
john whelan wrote: Yes but a problem with Flash is it is a major security hole. My considered opinion on that theory is bollocks. It's a frickin' browser plugin, if the browser is letting it access your l337 credit card details then the browser probably ought to address its plugin

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Browser plugin security is a joke and has been for a very long time, and as far as I'm aware nothing has been reported publicly that anything is being done to fix the situation. I think (though I'm absolutely no expert on the situation) that Chrome and Safari are working

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
john whelan wrote: In order to reduce the threat of successful exploitation of Web browsers, administrators should maintain a restrictive policy regarding which applications are allowed within the organization. […] Browser security features and add-ons should be employed wherever possible to

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: Adobe has explicitly said in the past that they can't open source it because they've used a lot of parts in in that they've licensed from somewhere else. http://www.adobe.com/de/products/eula/third_party/flashplayer/ Pretty much all the all rights reserved stuff

Re: [OSM-talk] older GPS Tracks not displaying in Potlatch

2010-05-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: Older gps traces (10 months+) don't appear to be displaying when I click on The Icon (G) in Potlatch. They're still listed in GPS Traces are PUBLIC. Is there a time limit for their visibility? Potlatch pulls them down 10k (IIRC) at once to avoid boggling the server too

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki contributions

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I don't think that an a patch for the rails port which lets people add feedback would be difficult to do http://www.skobbler.co.uk/osmbugs Skobbler rocks. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/new-logo-tp5046672p5064419.html

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Martinez wrote: Now, could everybody still in doubt please do a simple google image search for good logo and check for logos that tell a story! I bet you'll hardly find any. Robert, I think you have produced a good logo. Not an outstanding one, like (to quote two of my favourites)

Re: [OSM-talk] Navigation Debug Map Style Available

2010-05-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Welty wrote: which is a perfectly good theory, and very fussy in practice. i am unfamiliar with any jurisdiction which enforces speed limits to fractions of km/h or mph. There are signs on the UK canals which inform the boater that the speed limit is 6.43kph. I kid you not. cheers

[OSM-talk] Yahoo Maps to be provided by Nokia

2010-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nokia will be the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo!'s maps and navigation services http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=472765 Nokia, of course, owns data provider Navteq, which in the grand scheme of things is a rival to OSM. Yahoo! currently offers OSM the

Re: [OSM-talk] Italian Government approved the use of official data for OpenStreetMap updates

2010-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simone Cortesi wrote: We are still dealing out on how to use this thru editors which do not make use of WMS access to imagery. Will potlatch or mapzen get WMS anytime soon? Potlatch 1 will never have WMS support. Spherical Mercator is sufficiently hardwired into the code that supporting

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash to JS+SVG ?

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Smokescreen, a 175KB, 8,000-line JavaScript-based Flash player written by Chris Smoak at RevShock, a mobile ad startup, and to be open-sourced 'in the near future.' Wow. Just wow. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom rendering of a small map

2010-06-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: It would take an age to change it all manually in the SVG. What are my options for a custom render? FWIW: Halcyon, the Flash rendering engine used in Potlatch 2, uses a simple CSS-like style language called MapCSS and would be an easy way right now to produce a bitmap

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and NearMap sourcing - what? why?

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 10 Jun 2010, at 02:01, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: trac called, it wants its job back. It is really really really unhelpful to bring up every little thing on the mailing lists rather than

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and NearMap sourcing - what? why?

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 10 Jun 2010, at 18:12, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I would. It already happens and it's right that it does. Trac's UI is much, much better for this sort of thing. As a bug reporter, I find that the trac UI sucks massively. I have spent ages

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim McNamara wrote: [stuff about scope of share-alike] [stuff about whether a share-alike or an attribution-only licence is better] Hello Tim; you are new here, I think (and welcome!). There is a bit of prior discussion on this. About five years' worth, in fact. :) If you'd like to look

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Paleino wrote: [...] it seems like that was a unilateral decision made by Richard. [...] Richard says I think the wiki may be wrong [...] Richard, please don't take this as a personal attack :) For the avoidance of doubt I should perhaps point out that this is another Richard. cheers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Andy Allan writes: If they have geographic data that we don't have, and they mix it with OSM data, then the whole point is that we end up with access to their geographic data. [...] You are obviously reading section 4.5 in a different way that I do. [...] For me

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

2010-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Users must just take care that they do not edit cable lines according to what they see on the OSM map, otherwise all of the cable network data will be considered to be derived from OSM data and thus fall under odbl. Very very broadly yes, but actually at that point

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Actually there is a 3rd option, some people prefer cc-by... By and large the holy war is share-alike vs non-share-alike. Attribution is kind of a sideshow; IMX most 'PD' advocates (myself included) would be equally content, maybe even more so, with an attribution licence such

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Oliver (skobbler) wrote: Some people might want to achieve a wider use for humanitarian projects. Then address referencing won't help and a license change won't change either. There needs to be common understanding of the vision where OSM is seen in five years from now. No, there

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Oliver (skobbler) wrote: It might be true that OSM is the best map in the world for cycling and the best map in the world for humanitarian use. If the higher goal of OpenStreetMap is to become the best map for cycling and the best map for humanitarian use I will not complain. I did not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Oliver (skobbler) wrote: How do you want to find the right licensing, funding and communication approach (to avoid the word strategy) without having a strategic goal? By encouraging a welcoming, meritocratic environment in which talented people are able to do cool things. It's worked

Re: [OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed

2010-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John F. Eldredge wrote: Recently, I have been using Potlatch, with the Yahoo aerial-photos background, to clean up some errors in data that originated with the TIGER import. According to the Potlatch documentation on the wiki, if I drag a node belonging to one way onto a node belonging

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding a relation to a relation in Potlatch

2010-07-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Is it possible to add a relation to a relation in Potlatch? I've tried some things but haven't found a way yet. No, not currently in Potlatch 1. You can in Potlatch 2. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Liz wrote: I am campaigning, actively for no change. Please do not ask me to change my opinion. I have said consistently that the Australian section of the map stands to lose an enormous amount of data in a change to ODbL. So let's say Australia wants to stick with CC licences because most

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, (Deep breath) I'm delighted to unveil a test version of Potlatch 2, the all-new, completely rewritten version of OpenStreetMap's online editor. You can play with it at http://www.geowiki.com/ . It talks to the main OSM server and you can make real edits with it. This is a public

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: One thing I can't find is GPX tracks (key: G). Has it not been implemented yet or am I going blind? Not yet! It's next on the list. But you can load a GPX from somewhere on the web (Flash permission stuff notwithstanding) using the vector layers stuff in the Background menu.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: I think the point where it's good enough to start thinking about replacing Potlatch 1 on the edit tab is still a long way off. It's much more likely that, when it moves out of alpha, Potlatch 2 appears and gets used on other sites first since it's much easier to customize.

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: For example remember positions like Richard Fairhursts in the thread (I know that it's not an official OSMF/LWG position) Of course it isn't. I'm not on the OSMF board let alone LWG; indeed, I actively told OSMF earlier this year that I did not intend to assist it in any

Re: [OSM-talk] Error loading Yahoo-Images in Potlatch

2010-07-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Herison wrote: Now the strage part: Closed FF. Cleared browser cache without hope but... After starting FF again, the error-images were gone. I could continue editing like before and see all Yahoo-Images. Even these tiles that has errors before. I tried the same here at home (again)

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Is there any actual mapper who strictly don't like SA? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain (I reply merely to inform rather than to prolong the debate, as sticking my head into a grinder is already seeming like

Re: [OSM-talk] renaming rendering layers

2010-07-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: Should we continue to name the osm.org tile layers by the renderers they use? Is overloading the terms mapnik and osmarender as both a tile layer, style file and rendering library confusing? We had this discussion way way way way back, and I vaguely remember

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: In that case, is it legally sound if I download my own contribution due, to database rights? Difficult to say - I can see an argument either way. A database right certainly exists and governs extraction from the database; but if what you're extracting is exactly what you put in

Re: [OSM-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
, right? I look forward to Richard Fairhurst suing Richard Fairhurst for violating the license on Richard Fairhurst's data. *facepalm* cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Re-License-Cut-over-and-critical-mass-tp5333864p5333989.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: the edits that we're submitting all come from one user (that represents NearMap) since we don't (and can't) require users of our site to all be registered with OSM. Um... this is the sort of stuff that really, really needs to be discussed first. Whenever it has been raised

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: I'm not sure I agree. We don't want to put barriers in the way of an average user (and I use that term to explicitly distinguish between the average map site user and a mapping enthusiast) making simple corrections such as adding address information or naming un-named streets.

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I kind of understand your situation but I think the way forward would be to either use OpenStreetBugs or set up an OpenStreetBugs like system yourself, maybe integrate that in your editor - so that users without an OSM account can only place OSB markers, and those (the

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: In particular ODbL+CT will require a contractual relationship (i.e. the contributor terms) between OSMF and the user. If you are not exposing the user to the sign-up process, they are not agreeing to this contract. No, they're agreeing to terms and conditions with us. We

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution of OSM on nearmap.om?

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: More seriously, though, this question has already been raised, and we follow the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F and credit OpenStreetMap in the same way and with the same

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts? I did, last time I did some mapping. I faithfully recorded where the paths, gates and stiles were, rather than pulling some fictitious locations out of my ass. I realise that you've been far too busy trolling the

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nick Black wrote: The current mechanism by which Mapzen and Mapzen POI Collector users authenticate against OSM is horrible for users. At the risk of being really hand-wavy and imprecise, I'd just say: Twitter's OAuth UI is really exemplary. It's a great demonstration of how to get it right.

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I respect PD guys, but in overall, I start to grow to openly dislike their attitude. Could you cite who these alleged PD guys are, please? Thanks in advance. I'm getting increasingly exasperated with people projecting this big bogeyman (or strawman. A big man made

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Isn't it going to present some complicated management problems if the LWG changes the contributor terms at this stage in the process? No, not in this case. The proposal is a subset of the powers currently available to OSMF, not a superset. It is the existing CT _minus_ the option

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: What about a tracing of a photograph of a flower? [...] What about a tracing of a photograph of a lake, as viewed from an aircraft? Bauman v Fussell may be relevant here. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Why don't you try this. Import some Ordnance Survey Street View data into OSM, then render it as a Produced Work with the ODbL required attribution I've written fairly extensively on this in talk-gb, but to reiterate a posting from May: To comply with ODbL for data obtained

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: This is quite a good place to start: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright_protection_of_databases It's good to see licence sceptics starting to look at the case law too. There are of course a million things you could say about rights pertaining to factual compilations in the US.

Re: [OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I'm not being petty in the least, I want a compromise, but others have outright refused to even consider any kind of a compromise that will save years of work without resorting to shady legal tactics. Hey, now that's not fair. The reason I suggested to LWG that they drop

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. I'm not suggesting, I'm reporting. You might like things to be easy but that isn't the way the law works... or we wouldn't have been having this discussion for the

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: No idea about printed maps, but several sites recently only linked to an attribute page on their site, rather than displaying it on top of the map, so maybe having a small lookup table of major contributors that can be linked to would be suitable? We do. :)

Re: [OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andreas Labres wrote: 1. accessability with low cost air carriers ...and please remember those of us who try to travel by sustainable means, too. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Portugal-proposal-for-the-SOTM-2012-tp6990490p6995954.html

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: We suggest that re-mapping by individuals is more important initially than automated revert scripts as it puts back often more and better content than was taken out. We'd like therefore promote that and to concentrate on tools to help folks easily see what needs

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change final cutover date

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: the April 1st is mentioned in the LWG minutes and in a LWG mail to legal talk. However, as a non native english speaker I am a bit confused by the vague wording. Is the date final, if nothing material happens in the meantime Yes - barring unforeseen circumstances (of

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Václav Řehák wrote: Any tile server provided by the app author will be way behind in the updates. I expect the Locus tile server to be updated once in a week or so making it unusable for my weekend mapping trips. I think this, sadly, falls under the category of collateral damage. The 1% of

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I encourage you and others to get involved in the Foundation (ie become members, get active on the lists, tell the board your feelings, vote) You missed out the most important one: help cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

[OSM-talk] OSM(F) strategy - suggestions review

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, [crossposted to various groups] As you may know the OSM Foundation has lots of terribly boring-sounding working groups and the Strategic Working Group is possibly the most boring-sounding of the lot. However... occasionally we do things that are not stultifyingly boring and this

Re: [OSM-talk] Friends

2011-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: Or maybe, just maybe, some of the blessed developers who know Rails well enough could help make connecting with other mappers easier/smoother/even_delightful There's lots of stuff that can be done and I suspect OWL, Matt's what edits are actually happening in a given area

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Logo, which one the right one?

2011-12-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frans Thamura wrote: i just hacking the osm logo (develop using inkspace, isnt it?), now ichange and make it AI. Illustrator's SVG import is famously buggy (and I say that as someone who generally likes Illustrator very much). Your best bet is to use a tool with a better understanding of SVG,

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: I think that should be made more clear on the remapping page. You mean the fact that the _very_ _first_ _sentence_ of the main page content is Remapping means 'replacing with new content'. It does not mean simply copying the old content - that might infringe the

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: For example (there are a lot more examples): http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfelon=-0.81228lat=51.72366zoom=17 shows a path with red nodes, but I added that and no-one else has edited If you look at the history of each node, you can see who's edited it. In this case,

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Isn't it time to block edits to non-CT content? There is certainly an issue here, and what you describe as non-CT content can take two forms. There is content that will not be relicensed. This is the content input by those who have declined the Contributor Terms. I agree that it

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: is there something else I need to do? It'll only work in the default, 'Potlatch' map style (not 'Network' or 'Wireframe' or others - I need to fix that!) but apart from that, yes, that should be all you need to do. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: Oh wow - I must have been on some long gone map style, it's all looking very different now I've changed the map style (and looking good too). Am I right in saying that purple outlines mean things are part of a hiking route, and green outline means foot route right?

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The two forms you describe are quite irrelevant and just muddy the water. Can you answer the question, please? You have edited a bunch of stuff in the North Cotswolds, which is an area very near where I live and which I care about. I remember one changeset called Cotswolds, another

Re: [OSM-talk] Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st

2011-12-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: David, many people have been coerced or suckered into agreeing. I've been badgered many times (including three times today, on this very thread by an OSMF board member). No. I am badgering you to say what you will do, or explain why you will not say. Obviously, I would prefer it

Re: [OSM-talk] tools for the transition (was: Editing of content that will be deleted on April 1st)

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Edward Hillsman wrote: that Potlatch does not highlight everything that even the OSM Inspector designates as being at risk of removal or reversion (giving false positives and false negatives; I have identified one of each in the area I map) Potlatch 2 uses exactly the same source as OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Well, since all history of that data before API v0.5 is lost Hey hey hey. Slow down. Data before API 0.5 is _not_ lost. It is archived. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Who mapped it first with ref to forth coming deletions - implication

2011-12-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: That is something different than what 80n said earlier 80n, not for the first time, is wrong. So, which is it? Cleared and no details about any previous modifications or archived and earlier details available? You have to excuse the confusion, because these are

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Map Maker gets a UI overhaul

2011-12-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: there's bound to be people slave-mapping for GMM that would contribute to OSM instead if 1) they knew about it or 2) it were easier to get started. If we had more than five people coding on the main site then maybe we could start to fix 2. ;) We're kind of hamstrung

[OSM-talk] 97.2%

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Our appeal for a new server is tantalisingly standing at 97.2%: http://donate.osm.org/server2011/ Will we get to 100% by Christmas Day - a Christmas present for OSM? If you can give just £5/€5/$5 or local currency of your choice, please do - it'd be lovely to get to 100% for

Re: [OSM-talk] 97.2%

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
...100%! And the order for the new server has been placed. Have a happy Christmas everyone. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/97-2-tp7123532p7123971.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] what is happening here - potlatch oddness with orange highlights?

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?lat=-36.878407lon=174.741523zoom=19 the landuse polygon has an orange highlight on it, why does it do that? You've turned on the Show licence status option in the options box. That'll give any object mapped by someone who's refused the new

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