Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

2009-09-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
here is what they guy wrote to me : Thanks but you are wasting time. i do not get any payment from google neither from Yahoo (OSM). so please leave me alone i do not need any more explanations what google do or don't or yahoo or some thing like that, i do know that you are getting payed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

2009-09-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Listen guys, this should all go into the FAQ. I am having problems educating people about what OSM is, and how it differs to GMM. We need to state that we are not working for yahoo and why people should prefer to license thier work to OSM over other sites. We also have to tell people that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

2009-09-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Will you react calmly if Google send messages to every OSM contributor asking them to dual-license their data? Only if you can honestly answer yes should you proceed. HI there, I would never just spam anyone. But there are some really motivated mappers in kosovo, and they dont even understand

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

2009-09-28 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
. Mike On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Will you react calmly if Google send messages to every OSM contributor asking them to dual-license their data

[OSM-talk] Call to map : Help Albania with the flooding of Skoder!

2010-01-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9264 There has been a massive flooding in Albania, Floods have devastated a region of about 10,000 hectares. More than 2,400 homes were flooded. We should help build a map for the relief effort like the Haiti! mike

Re: [OSM-talk] Call to map : Help Albania with the flooding of Skoder!

2010-01-17 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
experience help setup a wms? I made this, but it is not working : http://labs.metacarta.com/rectifier/rectify/3554 http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1957 On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:57:04 +0100, jamesmikedup

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] Call for SOTM Sponsors

2010-01-19 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
We are interested in hosting SOTM 2011 in Kosovo. Would that even be possible? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: We're gearing up for SOTM 2010 Girona, Italy and we need help with wrangling in sponsors! Isn't it spelled Genoa? Having a blonde moment,

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [CrisisMappers] Fwd: VL: We want to help you make a crisis Map of Skoder

2010-01-20 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
National Focal Point, or at the request of one of our regional partners). Let us know how we can help. Best to use my UN email david.stev...@unoosa.org David Stevens UN-SPIDER 2010/1/20 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: I have gotten some response from UNDP

[OSM-talk] Sad to see that opensource.com is talking about google maps

2010-01-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9395 Where is openstreetmap being mentioned with the haiti relief effort? Fail! It makes me sad to see the new slick opensource.com talking about google maps and not openstreetmap. Just goes to show you why it is important to be wary about the

[OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-29 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9405 Everybody is invited to help out with Kosovo and Albania. I know that there are alot of new people working on Haiti, and if that project is saturated and you are looking for something to do to help out, please help out the people in the

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
working with mapnik now, learning how to use it. About the standard tags, we dont have that yet either. :( On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I think a wiki would be fine to document that progress. On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Maarten Deen wrote: Might it be useful to make a Kosovo mailinglist for this? we do have an irc channel but it doesn't support asynchronous discussion

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We have The entire streetnetwork of Kosovo that needs to be merged and imported (from iimap, the disaster relief) Is there page anywhere that coordinates who is uploading which parts of this? I downloaded a few at random and the first 4 I tried look to be done

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-01-31 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
looks good! I will share that with the others. mike On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: That wiki table is a good idea. Let me know if you can't make it today (your day), maybe I can continue. Quick attempt:

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: looks good! I will share that with the others. mike On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: That wiki table is a good idea. Let me know if you can't make it today (your day), maybe I can continue. Quick

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
imports. http://pastebin.com/f30247bfb It splits by street count, not node count to get a clean cut. It is what I used to produce those files. the shape file is also online on archive.org On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:58 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Thanks for all your help and enthusiasm malenki, of course such things happened to me as well. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, malenki o...@malenki.ch wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: There is a reason I split them up by streets and not by node count, it is to avoid lonly points

Re: [OSM-talk] mapgen.pl

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
sounds exciting, so It does what mapnik does, but in perl? mike On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Gary68 g...@gary68.de wrote: hi, just published the first really usable version of my new renderer here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgen.pl enjoy, if you are interested... feedback

Re: [OSM-talk] mapgen.pl

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
There might be an osm module in the svn from osm iirc. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Jochen Plumeyer joc...@plumeyer.org wrote: Hi Gary, where do I get the OSM module? cpanplus claims it is not on CPAN. Or is it compatible with Geo::OSM ? Cheers, and thanks for your good work, Jochen

Re: [OSM-talk] mapgen.pl

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gary68/OSM/osm.pm On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Jochen Plumeyer joc...@plumeyer.org wrote: Hi again, it seems the OSM.pm Perl module used to be at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/User:Gary68 , you announced the module like this about 2 years

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
make a database of all know addresses in Kosovo and then try and find locations for them. Mike On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9405 Everybody is invited to help out

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Todos:     * don't overwrite existing streets.     * run the validator, merge street segments     * join streets that end near each other.     * don't upload points that are not connected. In the sections I'm importing at the moment there is a couple

Re: [OSM-talk] If you want to help with OSM, and dont know what to do, help out with the Kosovo and Albania project

2010-02-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
If you want to upload them, and mark them as fixmes we will review them. thanks! On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Rob r...@robreid.co.nz wrote: jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Looks like my edits there. I will resolve the conflict. I have cut out the overlapping areas, if you look

[OSM-talk] Where can we purchase sat photography for usage in openstreetmap?

2010-02-05 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, I just found out that we cannot use any of the data from eurimage.com in osm. We want to raise funds to buy high res photos of Kosovo for tracing. Does anyone have any experience with this? Are there any sources we can use? I have also found nice photos on here http://miravi.eo.esa.int/en/

Re: [OSM-talk] Where can we purchase sat photography for usage in openstreetmap?

2010-02-07 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
...@cortesi.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 21:24, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I just found out that we cannot use any of the data from eurimage.com in osm. We want to raise funds to buy high res photos of Kosovo for tracing. Does anyone have any

Re: [OSM-talk] Where can we purchase sat photography for usage in openstreetmap?

2010-02-07 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
for the city... lets see what we can do. Is the license ok for tracing into osm/sharing of the images? mike On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:52, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Thanks, that looks

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-02-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi Dr. Liz, It has not made the charter yet : http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/home If they had sat pictures, we could at least prepare something. But with cloud coverage, there would not be much to see! mike On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-02-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Dr. Liz, It has not made the charter yet : http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/home If they had sat pictures, we could at least prepare something. But with cloud coverage, there would not be much to see! mike On Thu, Feb 11, 2010

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-02-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
And the file looks like this: http://img268.imageshack.us/i/screenshot3mt.png/ The osm file is here: http://filebin.ca/uwvphw/pat.osm On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Cyclone Pat hits Cook Islands It looks like

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-02-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi, I don't see a point in importing that data either. I was just collecting what I found and presenting it. Useful data would be nice sat images... mike On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 February 2010 09:11, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com

[OSM-talk] Help getting OSM/OpenBikeMap Contour data in QGiS for Dragash, Kosovo

2010-02-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, Can you help me with some qgis question, it is related to OSM. I would like to import the opencyclemap contours into qgis. I have found a wms layer for the area, but it does not have the contour data. http://fmtyewtk.blogspot.com/2010/02/srtm-wms-layers-in-qgis.html This is what I have

[OSM-talk] Finishing of the iMMAP street data starting of the Logistics Plus GPS tracing

2010-02-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hello, First of all, I would like to thank for all the help in importing the iMMAP street vector data into OSM. Here is a report I made just before we finished : http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/h4ck3rm1k3/diary/9550 Here are the people who were helping the most : THANK YOU bmog malenki

Re: [OSM-talk] Finishing of the iMMAP street data starting of the Logistics Plus GPS tracing

2010-02-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
to process the data. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosovo_LogisticsPlus_Tracing#How_to_process it will also be posted on the wiki. mike On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, First of all, I would like to thank for all

Re: [OSM-talk] Semantic GIS site based on dbpedia, freebase, openstreetmaps, etc.

2010-02-23 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
sounds very exciting! will check it out! On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote: Hello, We just launched a new site at http://ny-pictures.com/nyc/photo/ which is based on data from dbpedia and freebase and uses openstreetmaps for mapping. Behind it

Re: [OSM-talk] Semantic GIS site based on dbpedia, freebase, openstreetmaps, etc.

2010-02-24 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Looks like an app we could use as well, where is the source code? thanks, mike On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:30 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: sounds very exciting! will check it out! On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote

[OSM-talk] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

2010-02-24 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira was flooded http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100222/tsc-breakneck-development-blamed-for-mad-b1f5339.html We should get the charter. It seems that unplanned development is something that we can track with OSM. That is the leading cause of fatalities from

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-25 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I would like to see a global bug tracking and issue system for josm. that would include automatic checks on upload. imagine if all validity checks were stored globally. you could also do a validity filter on the map and only show validated ways. mike On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:13 AM, John Smith

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-25 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
That would include a better way to add comments to way and tag them for quality. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Serious consideration of Newbie Editor

2010-02-26 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Liz what about a wikipage to collect the requirements of the N00b editor? I find it hard to read all these mails, What is the big list of features? mike On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.comwrote: Jean-Guilhem Cailton a écrit : Roy Wallace a écrit : On

Re: [OSM-talk] Are Yahoo street maps legal? (as JOSM WMS layer via desktopwms)

2010-02-26 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Short answer : NO. long answer, dont do that. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I recently discovered destopwms [1] and it is a great utility that enables OSM, Yahoo and Google maps as WMS layers in JOSM. OSM layer is great because it is

[OSM-talk] More flooding in Albania, workgroup started

2010-02-27 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, I just want to send out a quick note that we have gotten a great project manager from giscorps to help out with the mapping of the albanian flood crisis. In fact the flooding has renewed and spread to more areas in Albania. I would like to thank Shoreh Elhami from giscorps for her

[OSM-talk] Xynthia storm/ flooding in france kills over 50

2010-02-28 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Here is a new crisis: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30558/ Area is around here : http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=46.3328lon=-1.3357zoom=12layers=B000FTF No disaster charter activation. No sources of photos yet. I am sorry for the people who died! mike

Re: [OSM-talk] Xynthia storm/ flooding in france kills over 50

2010-03-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
complain if anyone map France or any part of the world, but honestly, there is no need for an emergency mapping response in this case. Frédéric 2010/3/1, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: Here is a new crisis: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/30558

Re: [OSM-talk] Xynthia storm/ flooding in france kills over 50

2010-03-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
http://www.disasterscharter.org/home The International Charter aims at providing a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters through Authorized Users. Each member agency has committed resources to support the provisions of the Charter

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

2010-03-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: No sense in wasting manpower over something a bunch of unmanned dirigibles could do. There are places in the world that no one will send dirigibles to. Lots of places have really bad sat coverage because big companies don't want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

2010-03-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Where does a collective work start and end? is the copying of a picture into a larger one creating a derived work? If I make a mosaic of ccsa artworks, but say it is my creative arrangement? Why does google take down my video that contains many short clips from other videos? mike On Mon, Mar

[OSM-talk] Setup of the wms layers for Madeira Flooding in Portugal

2010-03-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, I have started to setup wms server for the images of the Madeira flooding, for tracing in JOSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Madeira/Flooding The mapfile definition is here, it works with the jpgs of DLR without change http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Madeira/Flooding/MapFile

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Maps for the floods following Xynthia storm in France

2010-03-03 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Well I know I have permission from DLR, and the disaster charter images are all public domain. mike On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.comwrote: Pieren a écrit : On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton j...@arkemie.comwrote: Also, I have doubts

Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] NE Uganda landslides and floods: (i) Charter (satellite imagery) activation by UNOSAT/UNITAR; (ii) GIST Uganda data post

2010-03-04 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I added a link to the charter event. and I added a link to the mine problem in ukraine http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ukraine_regions On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:49 PM, nicolas chavent nicolas.chav...@gmail.comwrote: All I minimally edited the existing Wiki Project

[OSM-talk] Call to trace : Russian maps online of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, parts of Montenegro, Serbia and Bulgaria

2010-03-08 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, more progress being made in south east europe: Bekim from iMMAP has purchased and donated the georeferenced public domain data from the old russian maps for Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo. This map file contains all the tiles available online in one map file layer!

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-10 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
My GSOC suggestion : Get the potlatch running without any Adobe software, use gnash. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Porting_of_Potlatch_to_use_FLOSS_tools_and_viewer Also why does google list OSM as being apache licensed?

Re: [OSM-talk] Cyclone batters Cook Islands - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

2010-03-10 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
The data from Aiutaki (Cook Islands) are online, they look great. http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-294 Lets get some people working on it? On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:58 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Mar 11, 2010 7:36 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: My GSOC suggestion : Get the potlatch running without any Adobe software, use gnash. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GSoC_Project_Ideas_2010#Porting_of_Potlatch_to_use_FLOSS_tools_and_viewer

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
lets put it in a different perspective : Make the documentation as part of the program! I would like to see for example a help system that is integrated to the wiki, Click on a tag, have it pull up the wiki entry, be able to add new unknown tags or rename them. We could even have an OWL Ontology

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] Student Project Ideas?

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Lars Francke lars.fran...@gmail.comwrote: I suggest that API 0.8 would specify that any values in the database be stored in some appropriate canonical form, with a flag to say if it is naturally imperial or naturally metric. So heights and widths would be

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
add it to the list if you can manage to describe it! Regards Graham. On 11 March 2010 10:59, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: lets put it in a different perspective : Make the documentation as part of the program! I would like to see for example

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
of the terms and abbreviations to help the ignorant like me! Thanks Graham. On 11 March 2010 22:39, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Description : Integration of the java swoop ontology editor into JOSM. A JOSM ontology plugin. Work : 1. create

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I know it sounds shocking but you can make you ontology as simple as you want, and you can have as many as you want. There does not need to be only one set of rules, I can defined them for my own little bit of the map and others can use them. the point is that you can define your terms formally

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
the level of formality Regards Karl Am 11.03.2010 23:39, schrieb jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: Description : Integration of the java swoop ontology editor into JOSM. A JOSM ontology plugin. Work : 1. create a live mapping from OSM into RDF , so that the swoop can access the data in OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-dev] GSoC'10

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Al Haraka alhar...@gmail.com wrote: It's completely not the osm way *as I interpret it* and isn't going to fly *as long as I am around*. I think that is going to far, my point here is not to be negative, but to contribute something. I can imagine that people

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

2010-03-11 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: How can potlatch be respectable if it is based on non-free software? (non-free flash, and you can't touch their source code!) Personally? I don't give a shit about free software. Or

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

2010-03-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:45 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 12 March 2010 18:27, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Mapzen doesn't count - it is open source ;-) So is potlatch, but that doesn't seem to have stopped people from complaining about it being non-free for

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

2010-03-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I have started to port mapzen to haxe, all help appreciated. http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/03/start-of-port-of-mapzen-to-haxe.html mike On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:56 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 12 March 2010 18:52, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup

Re: [OSM-talk] First drop in planet size ?

2010-03-13 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
That is very deep c++ code! care to comment on how it works? would be very interested to understand its performance ! looks very fast. mike On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is that all Xml compliant* parsers will abort at the file offsets that

Re: [OSM-talk] First drop in planet size ?

2010-03-13 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
program that uses libxml, i.e. very fast. Regards, Nic On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: That is very deep c++ code! care to comment on how it works? would be very interested to understand its performance ! looks very

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial photographs (5cm per pixel) is now available from Dortmund

2010-03-21 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:59 PM, osm-dortmund dortmund dortmund@googlemail.com wrote: As of now, the high-resolution aerial photographs of the Dortmund company Aerowest http://www.aerowest.de for the area of the city of Dortmund are available. For a pilot project which has Aerowest GmbH

Re: [OSM-talk] Aerial photographs (5cm per pixel) is now available from Dortmund

2010-03-21 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
21.03.2010 um 20:13 schrieb jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com: unlimited use by osm that is... 3 months. So you want everyone to help out with this? what about contour data etc yes, contour data helps local mapper to add housenumbers ca. 19 Buildings ( with walking-papers etc ). And all

[OSM-talk] Fwd: Hot phase

2010-03-23 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
FYI, the UN-Habitat project has hired a gis expert and will be starting to map the area of dragash kosovo. This is a great project that OSM will benefit from, QGIS and opensource gis in general. feel free to join the discussion here and give advice as you can,

Re: [OSM-talk] CFP Fwd: Software Freedom Kosova 2010

2010-03-29 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Call for papers, conference on FLOSS software, including OSM track, 25th and 26th of September in Kosovo http://www.scribd.com/doc/29092742/CfP10-SFK10-Software-Freedom-Kosova-Sept-25-26-2010-Prishtina-Kosovo please share, mike On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:43 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com

Re: [OSM-talk] www.openaddresses.org BETA launched

2010-03-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hey, Nice idea, I have been working on something similar, http://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/OAD-Open-Address-Database But with the goal of geocoding table data into osm. mike 2010/3/30 Cédric MOULLET cedric.moul...@gmail.com: Dear OSM community, After www.openaddresses.ch and

Re: [OSM-talk] www.openaddresses.org BETA launched

2010-03-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I found this mentioned on legal, the data that is added to openaddresses is with a different license than osm, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ I guess that they are dropping the sharealike clause on the data they import, this is questionable. If the data I contribute to osm is

Re: [OSM-talk] any advantage when using Quantum GIS (qgis) ?

2010-04-04 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I use qgis for : The rtools package that does intersections, difference and buffering of data, the raster contour plugin for creating ways from images, converting and working with shapefiles and all types of raster formats graphically, and alot of other nice tools qgis is great. mike On Sun,

Re: [OSM-talk] any advantage when using Quantum GIS (qgis) ?

2010-04-04 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Then the answer is no. Except for some specialist uses (e.g. for certain import or automated processing scenarios), I would not recommend to use QGIS to edit OSM data. However, QGIS is great for *processing* OSM data. I

Re: [OSM-talk] ITO World website down

2010-04-04 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I am using the great change tracker, if they would publish the source, I could set it up for my areas on my server. then the load would be less. mike On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote: Does anybody know when the http://www.itoworld.com/ website might be

Re: [OSM-talk] xybot edit area size

2010-04-07 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Valent Turkovic valent.turko...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:45:58 +, Valent Turkovic wrote: It would be ideal if it would use small areas of only few square km around each edit, idea beeing so that xybot edits don't show in history tab when

[OSM-talk] my wiki login is expiring once a day

2010-04-21 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi, I dont know if it just me, but my login to the wiki.openstreetmap.orgexpires every day 4 times. does anyone have this problem? anyway, thanks for osm, it is the best project! mike ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

2010-04-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi there, just a question, freeware for non commercial usage / non open source being promoted on the osm wiki? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:OSM_Composer Is this what we want ? is there any policy on that? I know we have strict policies on map data, but what about wikiusage and usage of

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

2010-04-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Also, it is being hosted on openstreetmap.de, I am going to start to decompile it and recreate the java code from the class files. I wonder if they will sue me. I don't see any license agreement that says I cannot do it. mike On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:22 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2010 15:22, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: It sends a bad message to have non free software being promoted our wiki. Companies offering commercial services are also on the wiki, OSM's primary goal is freely available

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:56 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2010 17:42, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: If all that hurts your head, it hurts my head just as much seeing closed-source software promoted by a site whos sole purpose is the freedom of

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: In another post you wrote that topo.openstreetmap.org cannot be freely mirrored. That is true insofar as that we are likely to ban your IP if you try to to create such a mirror due to the load on the server, much as you

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
1, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:46 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Me too! Maybe someday we will have to make a librestreetmap fork of project with stricter licenses policies for the software

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: We have a policy on the FOSSGIS servers (the ones behind openstreetmap.de) that says we're not hosting non-free software. If you can point me to software being hosted on openstreetmap.de which is non-free then it will be

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

2010-05-01 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2010 07:30, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Also, it is being hosted on openstreetmap.de, I am going to start to decompile it and recreate the java code from the class files. I wonder if they will sue me. I don't see any license

Re: [OSM-talk] WikiProject_FLOSS (was: OSM composer not open source?)

2010-05-02 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/2 Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com: I added an Introduction at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_FLOSS . I didn't put very The most important reason (for me at least) to write OSM related FLOSS, is

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

2010-05-07 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Patrick Petschge o...@petschge.de wrote: It is a good thing they are figuring out how to enjoy OpenStreetMap without putting themselves at risk *and* in the mean time try to prevent a total blockade of OpenStreetMap in Russia. It is definitly good that they

Re: [OSM-talk] Russians at it again

2010-05-07 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Kirill Bestoujev bestou...@gmail.comwrote: There are no rules in OSM. I would disagree and say there are some rules, in fact a buch of them, at the very least there is Copyright law and the creative commons copyleft which is the basis for our collaboration. you

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash

2010-05-09 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: I have disabled adobe flash, and done some testing with gnash for the past days.  it turns out the potlach is usable. there are some issues that I have reported here, more to test.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash

2010-05-09 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: On 9 May 2010, at 15:40, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I had trouble deleting the building, need to delete the points, could now delete the entire selected no via the del key. Try shift+backspace

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch and Gnash

2010-05-10 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote: - I had trouble creating a non-road (a building). That worked, made a square,added building=yes http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/58708097/history How do you add building=yes?  I.e. how do you add a tag? I

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
yes, i want this function as well! On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: i'm interested in the following from a technical and social perspective: as part of the LINZ import, some members of osm in NZ are about to add a lot of data to NZ. we've already

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-14 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason ava...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 17:08, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Occasionally the subject of Flash and free software comes up here in relation to Potlatch. I would encourage people to sign the

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-15 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Here is a message from the gnash team that I think is appropriate to forward to this thread. thanks, mike -- Forwarded message -- From: John Gilmore g...@toad.com Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:52 AM Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash appears on Adobe's web site! To: gnash-...@gnu.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki contributions (was: new logo)

2010-05-16 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: for API changes. Give them stars and badges and stuff. I'm sure Wikipedia has something we can learn from in this respect? Great Idea, here is my suggestion

[OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-17 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Hi all, here is a question from one of my friends, *what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend?* any suggestions? thanks, mike ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-17 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
more responses: thanks for your input BUZZ: Guttorm Flatabø - New HTC mobiles are getting very good reviews. I have a Sumsung, but I'm stuck with Android 1.5 IRC xjjk Phurl: there are only 2 real contenders... Maemo-based or Android-based and they're both pretty excellent. the former is more

Re: [OSM-talk] Flash and open source

2010-05-18 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
firefox jetpack On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.netwrote: On 14/05/10 23:51, Richard Fairhurst wrote: 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] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-18 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
Well the question came from a new OSMer from Shkoder Albania, who is helping with the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AlbanianFloodingCrisisCamp. The people in albania dont have much money, it is a very poor country, but they love to spend money on mobile phones. there are a great deal of good

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-18 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:48 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 May 2010 08:43, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: So, he is new to osm but not new to linux, and if we can find the right phone for him, maybe more people will be also

Re: [OSM-talk] lazyweb: what linux-based wifi gps phone would you recommend

2010-05-18 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:32 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 19 May 2010 09:29, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Anyway, the question was about linux phones. Maybe so, but you didn't give enough context as to why. our group in albania

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