On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:28:59PM +0200, X wrote:
Hello
I just made a tiny tool for fun :
http://gpsrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/06/openstreetbugs-eng.html
That's not a big thing but I found it useful.
Feel free to use it.
This is lovely. I mentioned it while I was at an OpenStreetMap
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:27:56AM +0100, elvin ibbotson wrote:
Why not use Java instead of Microsoft stuff then it would run on
anything.
Java doesn’t really run on anything, and we’re only just getting close
to a full working free software implementation.
For 3D, some framework that sits on
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:21:31AM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
Java runs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris and has been full, free
and working for years.
You're talking free as in beer. Simon was talking free as in freedom.
Correct. If I hadn’t managed to get JOSM working on a free (as in
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:57:29AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
You're talking free as in beer. Simon was talking free as in freedom.
I hope he'll at least be happy once he has a free as in freedom
software implementation.
Oh, I’ll never be happy :)
Seriously, as much as I’d love
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:29:40AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're talking free as in beer. Simon was talking
free as in freedom.
I suppose that being Java open sourced under GPL is free in
both meanings, right?
There’s nothing in the GPL (or in the four freedoms that it’s based
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:33:16PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
An alternative to search=yes that might be more generally useful is to
group parts of a street into a relation (see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Relation:street)
. That would be an object you could point to.
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:26:14PM +0300, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote:
What EXIF data does JOSM use to position the photo? I managed to add the
DateTimeOriginal or Date Taken: field to it, thinking it's the only
EXIF field JOSM needs.
Is this the only field that JOSM needs to position the photo?
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:25:54PM +0200, Thomas Schäfer wrote:
Well we're largely dependent on UCL (and Bytemark to a lesser extent)
being able to allocate us IPv6 addresses for our machines.
Have you asked ? (this year, not in the Dark Ages)
I don’t know about UCL (I imagine as a
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:37:35PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Pieren wrote:
It is a technical discussion because everybody can revert changes anyway.
True. Everyone can delete all of London anyway. This doesn't mean that
we have a button on the web page that says: Delete all of London.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:11:21AM +1000, Roy Wallace wrote:
There are two issues here: 1) what should be tagged and 2) what should
it be tagged with.
For 1), what should be tagged? Definitely the bridge. For two reasons:
firstly, clearance under a bridge is an attribute of the bridge.
What
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:01:45AM +0100, Simon Ward wrote:
What of bridges that cross multiple ways of different heights?
Sorry. I see that this has been commented on elsewhere in the thread.
Simon
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On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 02:08:51PM -0500, Joseph Booker wrote:
Sylpheed Claws can reply to list as well
and how many people have ever heard of that, let alone use it!
Probably very few, since it is called Claws Mail now :)
No, you get double the chance of having heard of it!
This
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:48:32PM +, Ed Avis wrote:
If you prefer web interfaces, you can participate in this list via
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap. That is what I am doing
now.
I’ll add Nabble[1] into the pot.
[1]: http://www.nabble.com/OpenStreetMap-f1218.html
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:27:58PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
LC's have their own mailing list... as for the rest, some of it seems
like tagging, some of it is non-mapping about imagery which judging by
your standards should be on it's own mailing list etc etc etc
Meh. If it’s about
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:09:26PM +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote:
All units in osm should be the metric value, unless the units have been
name spaced. Whenever I enter mph units, I use the tag maxspeed:mph=30
etc as this is the most accurate way of representing the data.
This is my method too.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:38:01AM +0100, Mark Williams wrote:
+1 on the namespace; I'm not generally keen on it, but here it makes
sense. Either the way mentioned, or maxspeed:en as per name:en for
consistency?
“en” is a language code, not a country code. Not all English-speaking
countries
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:32:36AM +0100, I wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:38:01AM +0100, Mark Williams wrote:
Either the way mentioned, or maxspeed:en as per name:en for
consistency?
“en” is a language code
“metric” and “imperial” might be better, although I feel that specifying
the
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:44:07PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
Going back to the newly uploaded draft [1]. Maybe it's me, maybe it's
the legal speak, but where does it explicitly say that if someone
creates and releases to an unsuspecting public a derived work
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 07:24:01PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
This is something I constantly preach on talk-de: We aim to be the
geodatabase to end all geodatabases.
I’d much rather it be the geodatabase to encourage more (free)
geodatabases, but that could just be me.
Simon, not aiming to
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:22:19PM +0100, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
Apologies to all, thats my mistake. I forwarded the wrong version to Mike
for inclusion on the website. I'll have that sorted asap. The version
Richard just posted is the correct one.
Thanks. Now to read it…
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:49:32PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
sergio sevillano wrote:
the key:barrier has been approved and thus the highway=gate now belongs
to barrier
*barrier=gate *
shall we run a script to do this?
No, because this would break existing rendering. First make
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:06:55PM +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
Does anyone have any other high-quality videos I could download and show
at UK Linux Expo?
I created animations for the Wales and Bradford mapping parties using
party render
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:54:52AM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
Let me disagree. You are implying that just because I can add stuff to
map features, I can also decide to mark all highway=* as deprecated? I
think we should supercede highway=* with path=* because that makes so
much more sense.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:17:35AM +1100, Joseph Gentle wrote:
councils, proprietary satnav systems, google earth, etc. I don't think
I’d rather people didn’t make their stuff proprietary at all. PD
doesn’t encourage it, but doesn’t discourage it either. Share-alike
discourages it, and that’s
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 05:56:53PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
I'm all for free data, free software, people giving away stuff,
encouraging creativity, not bunkering their assets and so on. What I
don't like about share-alike is the small-minded attempt to codify this
giving away into
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 04:36:30PM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
They certainly lend themselves to it. That's not to say it's a good idea.
The vast majority of these things could be done instead with a much
less intrusive auto
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:47:26AM +0100, vegard wrote:
The online th and mapnik layers are the showcases for OSM for outsiders.
The one thing that can impress people, is the level of detail we get. So I
say it's good to have a layer with as much detail as possible.
or a layer that allows you
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:10:44PM +0100, Pieren wrote:
This map already exists:
http://www.lenz-online.de/cgi-bin/osm/osmpoinit.pl/
Thanks, I thought I had seen at least one like this around before.
Simon
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simple system
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:21:44PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Another thing one could to if public messaging does not find favour is
posting a caveat immediately over the write message text area,
something along the lines of if you're about to criticize someone whom
you don't know, think
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:41:41AM -0800, SteveC wrote:
Um it sounds like we need a system to report abuse rather than just
making it public?
I'm with that, and mentioned it already. Who should get sent abuse
reports?
Simon
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:23:59AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Come on, how can you be critical of a project that single-handedly
implements an issue tracker, a wiki, and even forums! It's probably just
a few more lines of rails code and it also has a geo database, then
we'll just drop
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:10:28PM +0100, Patrick Kilian wrote:
I really dislike
bugzilla and that I was really glad when I found out that OSM uses trac
for its bugtracking. Unless we find a REALLY compelling reason to switch
I'd stay with trac.
I’m
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:16:07PM +0100, Martin Norbäck wrote:
b) 2+1 ways as we call them in Sweden, they are normal ways but have a
small fence in the middle and 2 lanes on one side and 1 lane on the
other side. They look like this:
http://www.vv.se/filer/Vägprojekt/3-Falt.jpg
Having the
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:49:41AM +0100, Xav wrote:
- I want the simplier interface with only lat/lon/date, two bug
states, and a text. I do not want a crapy interface with 30 text areas
and 60 combo-boxes
I don’t suggest there should be a crappy interface with lots of inputs,
but it
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:17:09PM +, Dave Stubbs wrote:
It's what happens when you hit reply to all. Get used to it -- it's
gonna happen to you a lot.
It’s a pity more MUAs don’t have reply to list or take note of the
List-Post header. ☹
Simon
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:37:31AM +, Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote:
Anonymous read-only access exists, so have fun :) Poke Till or myself
via the osm2go-users mailing list if you have some contributions and
you'd like write access.
There's a Debian port taking shape in
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 03:07:30AM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
There's a Debian port taking shape in branches/ports/debian which is of
relevance to this thread.
/me suddenly gains an interest
I'd already got an svn checkout but hadn't got as far as doing anything
with it.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:24:29AM +, Steve Chilton wrote:
OSM appears in the 100 top sites for the year ahead list in UK's
Guardian newspaper today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/18/internet-websites
I like the comment for Where’s the Path:
“Let down by OS's absurd
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:19:02PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Rather than try to centralize everything we know about the world into
OSM, we would be better off figuring out how multiple databases can be
tightly connected.
There’s the added bonus that when you make a project independent from
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:17:24AM -0800, Donald Allwright wrote:
I like the comment for Where’s the Path:
“Let down by OS's absurd OpenSpace restrictions.”
and if you try clicking on that site, you'll discover it's let down by
what appears to be a restriction on the number of page
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:29:29PM +, Andy Allan wrote:
be running, which is in the future and the timetable changed this
week[1].
[…]
[1] hypothetically, but actually did quite recently for the UK rail
network, which is a useful illustration.
If you’re lucky they’ll give you advanced
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:42:01PM +0200, Nic Roets wrote:
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote:
Why do people use _ instead of , seems very cumbersome really.
Because
* it's been an OSM convention (standard) since 2006. No one voted and
the wiki wasn't
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:07:06AM +, Tim Waters (chippy) wrote:
Well even so, it would probably be against the terms of use etc from
Google, and they can ask for it to be taken down, so whilst it may be
useful, it cannot be used...
It’s up to Google to do that, we can’t speak for them.
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:09:40PM +, Thomas Wood wrote:
I brought this up in IRC a few weeks back, and I know its been brought
up before that.
It's also appeared on the mls before, Richard's response pretty much
sums it up..
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:34:13PM +0100, Pieren wrote:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote:
A possible consideration for a future API is to move the check there:
JOSM uploads, and indicates what data sources were used in the editing
session. Server checks
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:14:14PM +0100, Gustav Foseid wrote:
In addition, I have had a hard time finding anything in Google Earth terms
that limits tracing, as opposed to Google Maps where this is stated very
clearly.
Just searching for “google earth terms of service” gives (among other
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:58:26PM +0100, Gustav Foseid wrote:
Are those really terms for Google Earth and not for Google Maps? I get a
Norwegian translation on that URL, that does not mention Google Earth at
all.
The English version is clearly titled as I have already indicated
“Google
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:38:16PM +, Peter Miller wrote:
Have we lost the State of the Map Domain recently?
Google still quotes OSM content for the URL, but the URL itself now
points to a link farm!
http://www.stateofthemap.org/
I guess we did, then someone realised. Extracts from
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 01:22:22AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
A possible consideration for a future API is to move the check there:
JOSM uploads, and indicates what data sources were used in the editing
session. Server checks, sees GoogleWMS, replies “I’m sorry Dave, I’m
afraid I can’t
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:30:29PM -0800, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote:
Hello I have installed the latest JOSM (v 1178) and I cannot install the
wmsplugin (v 12588). When I restart JOSM I get the message : 'plugin requires
JOSM update: wmsplugin'.
This happens both on Windows Vista
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:18:31PM +, Gervase Markham wrote:
I asked for a Garmin Legend HCx for Christmas, on the recommendation of
various people in this group, and am now trying to connect it to my
Linux computer to do some real-time mapping. Has anyone got this device
working with
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:09:26AM +0100, Steven Le Roux wrote:
I would like this one :
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/party/
But last time I tried, the python code of the video.py was obsolete
regarding the sid's dependancies.
Hmm… it’s not “obsolete” with respect to
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Steven Le Roux wrote:
yes the problem was around pymedia, which seemed unmaintained...
great you managed using it ! could you share this build ? i didn't
manage it last time I tried...
Get the Pymedia 1.3.7.3 source, and apply the attached patch. It
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:33:59PM +, Simon Ward wrote:
Get the Pymedia 1.3.7.3 source, and apply the attached patch. It
defines HAVE_LRINTF in the setup which stops it from redeclaring
lrintf() which Debian with GCC 4 already has. Run ‘python setup.py
install’.
I forgot to mention
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:49:52PM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
When I selected postal_code I was mindful that postcode is not used to
denote the code universally. In the US its ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) code
for instance. postal_code appeared to me to be sufficiently
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:37:32PM +, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Yay for 0.6 going live in March.
\o/
Can we take this opportunity to finally disable anonymous editing?
Yes, please.
Yeah, it’s just an “I agree” post, sorry.
Simon
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:30:19AM +, Peter Miller wrote:
OSM Open Data License
There are many comments already on legal-talk that I won't repeat here. I
do however note from the minutes that all communications with Jordan had
broken down. Also that No hosting option for the licence is
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote:
On Jan 27, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Manfred Podzkiewitz wrote:
Hello, i have a question about the handling of unoffical, or ethnic,
or
historic names of towns and villages.
The TIGER import in the USA uses name_1 for alternate
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:36:08PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote:
This doesn’t account for multiple names in the same language, though. I
can also imagine a place having several old names over time, while
old_name=* really only allows for one.
IMHO there really needs to be a well defined
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:59:26PM +, 80n wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote:
* WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted;
If section 11 of the GDFL 3.1 is anything to go by [1], then pretty much
anything is possible.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:41:06AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
* WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted;
I think this should be limited to avoid overstepping. We define the
basic things we want the licence to do—collective attribution, share
alike for derived data sets,
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 05:45:11PM +, Thomas Wood wrote:
2009/1/31 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
I would suggest the following changes in the wiki:
- replace vote by opinion poll
- replace I approve/I oppose by I like it/I don't like it
- replace approved feature status by valuable
-
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:01:17PM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Wouldn't it be better to ask for a number of arguments for or
against a proposal? Then people would have to contribute more
arguments, instead of more votes.
This is ultimately more desirable. Wikipedia has a policy that
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 11:49:49PM -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
I removed the link on 14th January because, as the above comment suggested,
the page wasn't finished enough to be the first documentation that a
newcomer to OSM might see.
Uhm, it’s a wiki, there’s a whole lot in that wiki
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 04:07:37AM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:
It's a *lot* easier to navigate through 20 or more subpages than to
read/search in exactly one page?!?
When it takes about a minute for the page to load, yes, I may as well
just do a search on the wiki since I’d get a response in a
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 03:54:56PM +0100, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
El Domingo, 8 de Febrero de 2009, Maarten Deen escribió:
With one step 50% over the target.
Apparently the API server has gotten scared that it is going to be
replaced. I can't get any data from it at all.
Has it gone in
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:48:17AM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
Having thought about this a bit overnight I personally feel that the project
should have an OSM specific blog that gets used for OSM community
announcements, worthy news items and OSMF announcements.
This could
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:51:12PM +, Dave Stubbs wrote:
Oneway is strange in that as well as yes/no you can have oneway=-1
for one way in the opposite direction of the way, and I still can't
work out why that is necessary.
Because none of the editors had a reverse way tool :-). I
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 04:00:22PM +, LeedsTracker wrote:
The concept of fair use is something which differs from one jurisdiction to
another. [snip]
I know, though the principle is in UK law:
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p09_fair_use
That page is a little misleading.
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:59:40AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
I do regularly import some osm data into PostGIS and reproject it inside the
database. Would it be enough to tell where to download the original OSM data
and what script to run, or should I really make a dump from my imported and
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:51:24AM +, Dair Grant wrote:
I'm not sure what format a file containing all of the alterations would
take. Does this mean a machine-readable list of the exact transformations
that were performed, or simply a human-readable summary of the
transformations made?
I
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:40:08AM -0500, Richard Weait wrote:
I see SVG as just another image. Raster or Vector; the image format is
not a problem. […}
The problem is behaviour. In this case the potential problem is Some
Jerk trying to use OSM database without living up to their license
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Pieren wrote:
It's very confusing now about who, how and what is deleted with the
license change. I would appreciate if someone could answer the
following questions:
My take:
- do you delete only data from contributors who explicitly say 'no' to
the
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:21:02PM +0100, Tobias Knerr wrote:
because of a change to the data, but the (unpublished) tools creating
the images, thus nothing of use would be contributed back to the free
world with ODbL.
Then we need to make sure as many tools as possible are free software,
and
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:11:13PM +, OJ W wrote:
Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control
over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make
our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone
else could do anything
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 12:33:56AM +0100, MP wrote:
This could be perhaps optimized: if user A creates some
highway=road, user B changes it to residential and user C changes it
to secondary. A and C agrees to new license, B won't.
But contribution of B was completely removed by C's edit, so it
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:18:48AM +, Ed Avis wrote:
You have discussed some elaborate plans about what data from a non-relicensing
contributor would have to be deleted and what would have to be kept.
Are you responding to my mail, or one earlier in the thread? I stated
that everything
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:42:54AM -, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
wrote:
One thing we should not loose sight of in this process is what OSM is
collecting, and thus the limit of what we might wish to see contributed
back. The locations of butterflies and endangered species are examples
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:32:20PM -0800, SteveC wrote:
I think it would be a beautiful day if it was seen as bad form to use
'IANAL' and everything like that was instead rephrased as 'lets ask a
lawyer and I wont give you my opinion'
Ugh, so we’re not to question the lawyers now and just
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:55:39AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
(Has someone told you that you're overly concerned about your Fake self?
He seems to make an appearance in every second post you write.)
Fake Steve C = Steve C, you know it. He just tries to make it out that
it’s all Richard F. ;)
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 03:33:45AM -0800, Donald Allwright wrote:
I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and license
the data under
ODBL 1.0 or later.
The GPL gives the licensor the choice (section 14. Revised Versions of
this License.[1]):
“If the Program
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:21:01AM +, Rob Myers wrote:
coast of the US for example. But I've been involved in both of two
meetings where decisions arrived at in the morning were reversed in
the evening, and that didn't make the first group very happy at all.
I think that, due to the
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:21:49AM +, Nick Black wrote:
The purpose of the call on Saturday is to offer an additional channel of
communication around the license - its intended to supplement the mailing
lists and wiki
Thanks, that’s what I expected to hear.
What I'd hope would come out
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:25:24PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote:
Earlier, I proposed that certain datasets should be immutable; whether
by policy or mechanism as needed. I propose importing the NYS DEC
Lands as an immutable set of data. If you read this exchange with
Robert Morrell, you
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:02:09PM +0100, Ulf Möller wrote:
Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons has posted detailed comments on the
ODbL on the co-ment website.
I think I’ve seen many of those arguments from the Science Commons
project before, and they still gloss over the question of “what if
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:47:43PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Simon Ward wrote:
They fail to note that if there are no rights in some jurisdiction, then
the database is free anyway, and so are derivatives.
As you know I'm pro-PD anyway but one thing that specifically strikes a
chord
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:31:51PM +, John McKerrell wrote:
edible map? nom nom nom
Cake! \o/
Simon
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:21:47PM +0100, sly (sylvain letuffe) wrote:
Yeah, I find highway=path a good permanent shortcut for
highway=cycleway+foot=yes+bicycle=yes without having to guess if
highway=footway isn't more clever because BOTH are to go on that... path
Maybe we should just call
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:54:30PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
Maybe we should remove the Export tab when it is out of commision?
Yes, because the users of all the other export modes that aren't
dependent on the mapnik database would love that.
There’s nothing like a bit of dry sarcasm to
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 07:59:48AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
Hold on there. Defined? defined by whom. If you mean its in map features
then that's cool because I put them there :-D
On the other hand Map Features isn't a rule book or a prescribed standard.
Its guidance on how you might
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 05:21:35PM +, Ed Avis wrote:
Additionally, when you upload a track you should be able to specify how it was
made, with checkboxes for 'foot', 'bike', 'car', 'boat', 'plane'. (If it has
a
mixture, tick several boxes.)
You can use tags for that: I’ve tagged most of
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:20:09PM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
Do you really think we can work that network-color table out, and make
software that fits into osm2pgsql to derive the shields**?
** I don't like the word shield. We use frakking rectangles.
Like these ones?
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:27PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
I very much agree about OpenAerialMap -- if we can't trust the
OpenAerialMap contributors about the licensing why should any person
in OSM trust any other OSM contributor rather than start redrawing
everything they can from
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:49:37AM -0500, Rob Myers wrote:
Unless that is the only way of ensuring that everyone continues to have the
advantage of effectively all rights to the data and that organisation is
OSM. ;-)
Well, yes, so why isn’t OSM just going PD (or near equivalent)? :)
(Yes, I
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:37:39AM +1000, John Smith wrote:
From what I understand, in the UK postcodes refer to a street, at
least in populated areas...
More usually one side of a street. They can refer to a small
residential area, one or both sides of a street, or a single large
building.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:19:53PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
On 18 July 2010 21:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
but they haven't commented about the contributor terms, I sent them an
email about this but I'm waiting to hear back. If they balk at either
that would mean
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 09:54:36PM +1000, John Smith wrote:
It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data
from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention
new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving
data from Nearmap.
This
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:56:57PM -0400, Richard Weait wrote:
Limiting a hypothetical (what should it be called? referendum?) to
just active contributors might exclude some who have just agreed to
the license upgrade. Is this the right thing to do? Should the
hypothetical referendum(?) be
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:05:58PM +0200, SteveC wrote:
wonder if you realise the fine line you are walking here by
employing such hard line tactics, you are literally risking an out
right rejection of ODBL because of this. How much time and effort will
have been in vein exactly?
I think
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:55:42PM +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
Ok, there it goes: I suggest to add SA clause and Attribution clause
as requirement for any new open and free license in CT point 3. It
would help to ease problems with big data contributors which could
agree with ODBL (as it
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