Re: [OSM-talk] Contributor Terms

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Correcting myself: My clear recollection of it is that we decided to ask new contributors to agree to ODbL+CT should be to ODbL and a contents licence. CT wasn't on the table then. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2010-08-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[moved from t...@] Dave F. wrote: On 13/08/2010 10:34, Richard Fairhurst wrote: ...(This is one of the reasons I'm not greatly enamoured of the upgrade clause in CT 3.) Am I understanding this correctly? Of the people that drafted the CT, 50% now don't like it? The Contributor Terms

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Chris Browet wrote[1]: The fact that many key players (SteveC, Frederik, Richard(?)) in the project also have commercial interests in the OSM data Wut? I don't have any commercial interest in OSM, at all. I'm a magazine editor. We do have maps in our magazine but we (well, I) make them

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: I note someone below saying Potlatch 2 will only have the offline mode. Ugh. That's a real pity. Live mode is more complex to code (and, hence, a potential source of bugs) by an order of magnitude. Stuff like merging ways and undo is incredibly convoluted in P1 because of

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Question 1 : is culvert commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that a term mainly used by civil engineers ? It's in very frequent use among boaters on the British canals, largely because the ruddy things keep collapsing and taking the canal with them. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Question 1 : is culvert commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that a term mainly used by civil engineers ? It's in very frequent use among boaters on the British canals, largely because the ruddy things keep collapsing and taking the canal with them. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: Second, because it will do minimum damage to the community (the discussion here is evidence that the community WILL be badly harmed by relicensing). We'll lose people whichever way it goes. I guess, for example, that Etienne might not contribute to an ODbL-licensed OSM.

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Körner wrote: after two weeks without contradictions, I'll open up voting for the Craft proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Craft Please, this stuff belongs on tagg...@. If there is a tagging suggestion that you really really feel that talk@ HAS to

Re: [OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: [helpful response] I've wikified this for the Developer FAQ: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ#I.27ve_been_blocked_from_the_API_for_downloading_too_much._Now_what.3F cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: This is because a gate with no access tags implies that nothing can go through. Where on earth do you get that idea from? barrier=gate states that there's a gate. The thing about gates, as opposed to (say) walls, is that you can open them to get through. Here are some

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: Nic Roets wrote: This is because a gate with no access tags implies that nothing can go through. Where on earth do you get that idea from? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:barrier in the sidebar under 'implies' And AFAIK that rule goes back to 2008. Wow. The OSM wiki

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Cordina wrote: As to the usefulness - a map compiled from purely the OS streetview data would serve one of my purposes for OSM data (rendering nameless maps of streets and natural features) 100% perfectly, so it is not a fair assumption that more data = more value. If you want a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Cordina wrote: As to the usefulness - a map compiled from purely the OS streetview data would serve one of my purposes for OSM data (rendering nameless maps of streets and natural features) 100% perfectly, so it is not a fair assumption that more data = more value. If you want a

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and we'll put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street? Find a mailing list? Add a point of interest? What should they do? That's up to you. At the risk of stating the really bleeding obvious, there's

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 and shp files

2010-10-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sam Vekemans wrote: Does anyone know if there are plans to ipliment the auto-conversion of shp files to be used in the foreground of the potlatch2 environment? Not automatically converted into the foreground, no. The idea is that you load them as a vector background layer, and you can then

Re: [OSM-talk] Ongoing bulk uploads of GPS traces?

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: There was a Russian transport mob who managed to completely overload the track upload system trying to put up gps traces to the main database. Separate hosting would keep that from happening - WA is on the same huge scale as Russia. Different issue. The issue with

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: And along those lines, based on the constructive criticism, the default map shown on the main OSM page should be a pretty map, using tiles from Mapquest, while mappers that have a need to view more details can select one of the existing map styles. 41latitude is a really

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: Point 1: I'm not denying that the data in the U.S. is messed up. On the other hand I can't count the number of times people say things that I summarize to 'God, why are you Americans too stupid, lazy or import crazy to map your own country? It really makes people want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Körner wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing their tiles under a free license. They distribute it now for free? Why? They are forced to by the CC-BY-SA License. ...is evidently

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: Again: Left and right co-exist nicely. I do not propose to convert between them. That is of course up to the individual mapper. Again: What I _do_ propose, is to rename a tag on some elements. From top to bottom in the example. It's all right, you can stop explaining.

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: In fact tagging it highway=*, ford=yes makes it *easier* for routers as they have to do less checking to see whether the ways on each side are the same. Hang on a sec. :) Gorm has already changed highway=ford on _ways_ to ford=yes, highway=something_or_other. This has

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
S Omeone wrote: OpenStreetMap has of cause something similar with OpenStreetBugs (which Google may well have used as inspiration), but unfortunately, as too often, less convenient. [...] Can we perhaps learn something from Google of how to build a nice user friendly crowd sourcing of

Re: [OSM-talk] tracking deletions

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: Is there an easy way to track deletions only in a particular area? When editing the area in Potlatch, you can press 'U' (for undelete) to find deleted ways, and recover them if you desire. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] tracking deletions

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: that works great, thanks how does potlatch recover this information? is there an API method I haven't noticed? Only in Potlatch 1's AMF API at present, but you can call this from Perl, Python or Ruby if you're feeling brave:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Do you mean to say that the earlier statement is true - that it's not possible to produce truly public domain, unrestricted map tiles or printed maps from the ODbL data? Yes. ODbL is very clear that there's an attribution requirement (4.3). (I believe that the reasonably

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: It's curious that two of the strongest defences of 'strong share-alike' come from yourself and Richard F. - but both of you prefer public domain. I, too, would prefer public domain over the ODbL. What's going on? Shouldn't we stop adding more legalese and just focus on

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect ofBing Mobile

2010-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Grant Slater wrote: Same answer for the Potlatch... http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1602/how-can-i-use-microsofts-aerial-imagery-in-potlatch Potlatch 2 can now, as of five minutes ago, display Bing-format tiles. We're waiting for the official start tracing announcement, and any

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

2010-11-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups to legal-talk please] David Murn wrote: I have no interest in the legal detail of the licence, only interested in talking about the ramifications of the licence on our map data, no matter how many times people try to derail this important issue to a legal mailing list. It is

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 almost down?

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I get a 404 error for P2 via Mapquest through geowiki It loads the editor displays a selected background but no data Could you try the Geowiki instance again? I've just tweaked a little problem that was showing up. (I tend to forget people use the Yahoo imagery. Roll on Bing.

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Felix Hartmann wrote: Is source=bing verified? Else it is pretty bad to start mapping As already posted, there is no formal requirement in the Bing licence to use a source tag, but it's good OSM practice anyway. FWIW Potlatch 2 has source=Bing as the preset tag. Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: That however does require the importer/mapper to raise the issue to a level where that support exists. As the LWG has pointed out, that hasn't worked in the past, and there is IMHO no reason to believe that it will magically start working in the future. Oh, sure,

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: The source is documented in both the changeset comments and on the nodes themselves. I saw a conversation on IRC to the effect that the data is indeed PD so there don't seem to be any worries on that front at least. A simple assertion that this is PD isn't good enough.

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the data, it should be enough. No. By that logic we'd never revert data which is clearly traced from infringing sources. We can, and we do. The OSM map is a single collaborative project, not a

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: So, can you tell from every edit you did, whether you used nearmap as a reference while doing the edit? If so, you must be one of the very small percentage of people who tagged 100% every change they made or one of the very large percentage of people not from Australia.

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: I'm really wondering who is pulling the strings there, because now it is even more trivial to see how much better we are. Anyone is seeing this happening in their area's as well? Certainly in the UK there's a lot more 'Google-sourced' data appearing on the maps,

Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: Specifically I'm wondering if everyone has androids because we're all open source nuts or if it's more balanced? Only the data will show. I have a Samsung B130. It's fantastic. You can make phone calls on it, and stuff. Actually, no. You can make phone calls on it. According to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I will currently be one of the people locked out because I have used the Ordnance Survey open data which is apparently incompatible with the new license. OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. cheers Richard -- View this message in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Clause 2 requires contributors to make a large grant of IP rights to OSMF on any content added to OSM. I believe that the intent here is actually that you only grant OSMF the rights necessary for them to act as described in clauses 3 and 4. Agreed. Lets now

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: given that at least one contributor has been pointlessly editing my personal contributions apparently so that they are no longer ODbL-ready, sickly sadly all too possible. That's vandalism, of course. Could you share their user ID? cheers Richard (Rather

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: They seem to be evenly spread over the planet and was depreciatedhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features almost three years ago. Depreciated means reduced in value. You mean deprecated, but you can only deprecate a feature from the wiki docs, not from the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Alex Mauer wrote: Which one were you thinking of? I count two road types in your list: highway=track and highway=unclassified. And it could be other highway=* types too. highway=track doesn't imply a road round here; clearly YMV. It’s still better to use highway=road even if it turns

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Alex Mauer wrote: Sounds like the usage is wrong “round there” then. The example image on the wiki[1] clearly shows a road http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingslandschft_Aaretal_Schweiz.jpg I think if you described that as a road in the UK you'd have the Trades Descriptions

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: Crikey, dont let them see the Old Eyre Highway across southern Australia, or the Outback Highway[1] across Central Australia. Together over 3000km of highly travelled road, connecting the western coast of the country to the central/eastern regions. Just goes to show the

Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

2011-01-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Asztalos Attila wrote: On 11-Jan-2011 15:51, Richard Mann wrote: Which is not to say that knowing which roads are cobbled wouldn't be handy sometimes (but I probably think of this as something you need to render for yourself (cue ad for Maperitive...)) I certainly see the merit of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Come on people. There's enough editors for everyone. There's a ton of reasons, for *every* editor, why someone would use or not use it. Personally I am glad that this is so Absolutely. I'd also add that transferring your expectations of how one editor works onto

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin wrote: I am not sure for newer potlatch, but the few times I was forced to use it (why the hell there is undelete api available only for Potlatch and not as XML?) Hey, calm down. Less of the why the hell, please. The reason Potlatch 1 can undelete is because I wrote the undelete

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Sabo wrote: This is a really bad idea. Drawing collinear features by sharing nodes is NEVER a good idea beyond 1 or 2 shared corners, that's what multipolygons are for. Disagree very very strongly. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Investigating missing relation

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: I'm thinking this would be a useful feature to add to Potlatch - loading and saving files from disk. (If possible within Flash) That'll happen when we migrate from requiring Flash Player 9 to Flash Player 10, but we're not ready for that yet. cheers Richard -- View

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Clearly no rendering of any map is going to be unmodified in the sense of having identical sequences of 0s and 1s to the database, in which case there could be no such thing as a collective work based on a database, ever. For print, yes, that's about the size of it.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: On 03/02/11 14:23, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Jonathan Harleyj...@spiffymap.net wrote: OSM applies the license to data - the license attribution it requests specifically mentions Map data. Again, who wrote the license attribution request? Not me.

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: I'm not a lawyer, but the current TOU seam not to allow it to be used in our editors. My understanding of this Bing term is that it's _intended_ to mean not available for use in an editor that is only available under commercial terms, e.g. the ArcGIS plugin. I agree

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: Oh, I was tricked by the wiki page stating it's GPL... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch2 Wow. Who on earth added that? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/magical-road-detector-tp5993637p5998760.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: You mean, as author of potlatch Only one of the authors. you dont have the potlatch wiki page on watch for edits? I also notice the edit you made, removed the entire software info block from the wiki page, not just changed the licence. Was that intentional? Yep. Way too

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: We wouldn't tolerate anything so disconnected from reality on the map, Yes, we'd fix it. Up to a point. We have scarce resources. We don't have enough mappers and we _certainly_ don't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matthias Meißer wrote: Sorry for the mistake, but as everybody knows, this can happen, even if you fight alone against a dozen of wikipages ;) Anything I say here will only get me into trouble so I better not. :) But I don't see why did you removed the template completely instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matthias Meißer wrote: well your theorem on getting all with one shot is great, but this doesn't work for me. Things (esp. on the wiki) are to large to do it in one step. So if you don't know, put a FIXME there. It's what we do on the map. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Returning to the question of collateral damage

2011-02-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Edward Hillsman wrote: We refer to the OSM community, and the need to respect the work of others. The way this particular situation was handled could have done a much better job of respecting the work of others. If software needs to be modified to make it easier to show such respect, then

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

2011-02-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: It seems there is no XAPI server available for a long time, what's going on ? Is this service deprecated ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iandees/diary/12916 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2011-January/021742.html cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

2011-02-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: If the service isnt designed to be portable (it only runs on one system currently, in the world), then who cares about java, why isnt it written in optimized C or some other similarly lowish level language, rather than java? Your search - murn site:svn.openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

2011-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
This is getting crazy. Exhibit 1: http://twitter.com/#!/maproomblog/status/39053538692698112 Whoever imported CanVec in Aylmer, Quebec obliterated hours of work and introduced hundreds of errors. #osm #openstreetmap #whybother Once again, some keyboard jockey has decided that his l337 import

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl

2011-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Reeves wrote: without explaining in layman's terms what this means. http://old.opengeodata.org/2008/01/07/the-licence-where-we-are-where-were-going/index.html Follow-ups to legal-talk please, so that those here who have made their mind up one way or the other don't have to read the whole

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tom Roche wrote: How best to use OSM to map non-existent features for planning purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? This shouldn't be mapped in the main OpenStreetMap database. OSM is for mapping real, verifiable locations, not hypotheticals. Rather, you should set up your own OSM install on

Re: [OSM-talk] Named passages on hiking paths

2011-03-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gilles Bassière wrote: Eventually, I used a custom tag for my latest edit: hiking=passage [5] but I'm not sure this can make sense for other mappers I _think_ I'd call that a traverse. Generally that would apply to a passage with significant movement in the x/y axes as well as the z axis!

Re: [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
F. Heinen wrote: Z,akskjsjkjdi That certainly wins the prize for the most coherent posting in this thread. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Licensing-Working-Group-tp6199509p6207146.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: My first intention was to ignore this message but I cannot Anyone round here ever seen the film 'Groundhog Day'? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Okay-this-is-just-cool-Lockport-NY-tp6225128p6227765.html Sent from the General

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Anyone round here ever seen the film 'Groundhog Day'? If you mean it's a desperate fud which will never end, I understand. Yes. If we separate the horrid neologism into its three component parts - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt - then I'm entirely with you on that. We are Uncertain as

Re: [OSM-talk] April fools that should have been

2011-04-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Project of the Week: Mother's Day. Map your mother. As, of course, amenity=your_mum. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/April-fools-that-should-have-been-tp6234058p6234432.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: There is zero chance that any large organisation would try to use OSM's CC-BY-SA licensed map data and think that they would get away with it. I agree with you here FSVO large. I doubt we have to worry about Google, Tele Atlas or Navteq consistently and deliberately using OSM data

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: What's not clear is how the ODbL+DbCL licence would help this situation. It would at least straightforwardly permit the publishing of map tiles without any attribution or share-alike requirement Disagree. (This has been gone over ad nauseam on legal-talk, I'm just pointing it

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: So do the produced map tiles (a Produced Work under the ODbL, I think, or am I mistaken there to?) have to be distributed under the ODbL also - or can you use any distribution terms as long as it has attribution - or what? ODbL 4.3 allows you to distribute Produced Works

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: To answer my own question - I guess that 'reasonably calculated to make...' suggests you should include an attribution notice and ask downstream users to respect it - although it doesn't mandate any particular choice of licence. So we would still have the attribution

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jochen Topf wrote:  Don't be so hard on the Strategic Working Group. After months of talks they have actually done something! I think we should celebrate that! After dipping their toes into many important subjects for the future of OSM they have chosen the logo change as the most important

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: It would be great if we could somehow reboot and arrive at something sane again. Superb posting. +1 to all of that. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/New-Logo-in-the-Wiki-tp6319413p6321156.html Sent from the General

Re: [OSM-talk] Ipad and openstreetmap.org

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Floris Looijesteijn wrote: I was wondering if anyone is working on Ipad support for openstreetmap.org? AIUI gesture (touch-screen) support is in the latest development builds of OpenLayers, and will be available on osm.org when they make an official release. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: [...] Please take this to talk-gb. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Tracks-and-there-place-in-society-tp6389100p6389114.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: All we need is a phisical list, and an access list. Um, we have that already. For physical tags, we have: highway=footway, or highway=cycleway, or highway=bridleway, or highway=track See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging. If it quacks like a

Re: [OSM-talk] Tracks and there place in society

2011-05-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ben Robbins wrote: Also, I have no idea how to take this to talk-gb, except by simply replying there not here, and breaking up a string of responses. I did however justify why it's here, which your welcome to read. I'm still struggling some what with getting these replies in the right place,

Re: [OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled

2011-05-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: Any thoughts or widely accepted customs regarding this? I'd use a length of either railway=disused or railway=abandoned. IMX it only takes a year or so for a disused railway, often called OOU in the UK (out of use), to become unsuitable for trains to turn up and go. On

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: Yes, I attended to previous LWG teleconference and I asked for LWG, as a committee, to enter into direct negotiations with me, an individual mapper. The draft minutes are online [1]. Thanks for the link, which I see contains your conditions. As I know there are people on this

Re: [OSM-talk] Kothic JS - a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Komяpa wrote: Glad to announce the first release of Kothic JS map rendering engine. There's live demo on http://kothic.org/js/ This is seriously amazing. This is possibly the first thing that brings the promise of it's open source, make your own maps into the realms of possibility for your

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Graham Jones wrote: In my day job I look after quite a few decision making processes to help our organisation make difficult decisions. I always say that I will have failed if at the end of the day we have to resort to a vote to decide what to do That's good. But

Re: [OSM-talk] Airspace Co.

2011-06-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[sorry, just noticed this one] Lennard wrote: the editor can hide all nodes with a certain tag Potlatch doesn't do it, but it seems it's a feature just waiting for a developer. Potlatch can do it fairly trivially; just give it a MapCSS stylesheet that doesn't render said tag. cheers Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: This issue not just one person's hobby horse - its an issue that is very topical and very relevant. Think you're missing an IMHO in there... and that's rather the point. I can list plenty of things that I personally think are more topical and relevant. I'm sure others on this list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Navigon to Sell OpenStreetMap POIs Packages for PNDs

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: That means we can mix it with OSM, but not contribute it back to OSM because the new contributor terms don't allow using ODbL licensed data. The standard Contributor Terms don't have to be the only Contributor Terms. cheers Richard -- View this message in

Re: [OSM-talk] Poll on Governance, what constitutes news, wiki front page

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: Richard, can't we just live and let live? You're profile has the wise words to avoid endless discussions and go do stuff. I think it is possible since we recently dropped a discussion that was going nowhere, at your suggestion [5]. I respected your request - live and let live. I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Eric Marsden wrote: Reading odbl.de, 60% of users have accepted the new contributor terms in Europe (40% in the USA, the proportion worldwide is not shown). There 417k users. So (extrapolating) 200k have not accepted the new terms and 190k have accepted. Hopefully the decision on whether to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: However your argument above completely fails to refer to Clause 2 of the CT's (and Robert Whittaker wrote similarly) Yes. It's my belief that 2 onwards have to be read in the context of 1a/1b. There would be no point having 1a/1b if that were not the case; and my reading of

[OSM-talk] Potlatch 2.2

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I'm pleased to announce Potlatch 2.2 is live. New features include: - Greatly improved vector background layer support (load shapefiles in the background and bring elements through one-by-one), including reprojection from OSGB - Control-drag an area to select multiple elements -

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: Well, if it is to be this way... ...then maybe it would be a good opportunity for you to help! Why not volunteer to help LWG in its communications with the German community? It seems a shame to lament that things are as usual and not do anything about it. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Apologies if this feature exists in all of the mainstream editing software. JOSM has a MOTD feature. Potlatch doesn't (and won't) because it's always used when embedded within a website which can choose to display whatever message it likes: indeed, osm.org does sometimes

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: How should that work - without concrete information posted anywhere? Ok. How do you fancy volunteering to be the person who posts the concrete information, then? You seem to be under the impression that magic communication fairies will crop up and make everything ok. It doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: Maybe you dont understand the role of office-bearers of a 'non-profit' foundation. Sure, they are volunteers, but if they dont have the time to do the job they volunteered for properly, then it only hurts the community they claim to serve. Indeed. And if they don't, you

Re: [OSM-talk] Pitiful proceedings - as usual

2011-06-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
NopMap wrote: Yeah, sure, I'll just burn some incense, look deep into my crystal ball and guess what everybody has been doing. Why do you need to do that? Why don't you e-mail LWG and say: I think you've been having difficulties with your communications. I'd like to volunteer to be your

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it a temporary file or Derivative Database under ODbL

2011-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: And what do you think a laywer will say when asked when the community using the license has no idea? The community has a perfectly good idea, as indeed you would do if you actually read the licence. ;) Under ODbL you are publicly using a Produced Work from a Derived Database.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Since recently was decided that in NL cookies are subject to explicit permission of the users, I'd think that Openstreetmap provides information on what information and settings are actually used by OSM. Ok then. OSM per se doesn't store

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Markus Lindholm wrote: But there's no need to store them on the client, as all users have to log in the preferences can be stored server-side. Atleast I throw away all cookies when I close the browser. That works for osm.org but not on a third-party Potlatch deployment, where it would require

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: In that case, could it be made to remember custom backgrounds from one session to the next? If I want to use the UK postcode layer, I have to add it manually every time. Sure - as ever, put it in a trac ticket. Stuff mentioned passingly on mailing lists gets forgotten.

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash cookies

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Adam Hoyle wrote: Sorry to be dumb/lazy, and I'm sure you've told me before, but please can you point me at the Potlatch2 trac/svn etc. trac is the same for all of OSM: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ . Make sure to select potlatch2 as the component. And only set the priority to critical if it

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: This may well be my first post to the talk list Brave soul. :) (But welcome, seriously.) Browsing a little with the new license status option of Potlatch 2.2 I'm seeing unfortunately lot of red on the map (and some orange, too). Don't get too disheartened. To take your

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The attribution was put into the JS file, but I'm looking into why that doesn't display. You probably need a DG file instead. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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