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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bangladesh OSM in Bangladesh
Mike
http://www.orebro.se/8760.html
http://www.epsiplus.net/news/news/orebro_releases_geodata_under_odbl -
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At 01:10 AM 17/01/2011, Anthony wrote:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1sC0SrG_R6OkRDdC3IJKlmDEn2pYTY2DZfcpSLFdiBBU
Latest and greatest:
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1jY58fD3JyNUjzmecrpNejoOt4OnfHeEM-6o8rD5hCLY
You are indicating that, as far as You know, You have the right
The links below show the wording we will formally release. I will confirm when
it is done. We will then set up and announce mechanism whereby anyone who has
accepted the 1.0 terms can upgrade, this will be entirely optional.
The wording drops one suggested change - the addition of the phrase,
At 03:19 PM 18/01/2011, Anthony wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
At 01:10 AM 17/01/2011, Anthony wrote:
At what point, if any, does the database become one where OSMF can't
switch back to CC-BY-SA without removing data?
If 2/3 of active contributors
Olaf,
Thanks, it looks like the clean text has been copied from a source other than
the diff-marked text. I've deleted it. We are meeting tonight and I'll stop it
going live until we double-checked the rest of the text too.
Regarding your main concern in
At 04:10 PM 18/01/2011, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
With this new version, do you/others think it is OK for people who have
previously submitted content on which they received a CC-By-SA + ODbL dual
license (taking into account the future license change) to click the accept
button? Cheers
Me,
At 08:36 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
On 7 January 2011 05:25, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Nope. Clause 4 survives any license changes in the future, it is nothing to
do with the end user license:
4. At Your or the copyright owners holders option, OSMF agrees to
attribute You
At 08:28 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
On 7 January 2011 05:14, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
I almost wish that Tobias Knerr's words earlier in this thread were my own:
The Contributor Terms are clearly based on the idea that we are building
a database together. It's not just
At 02:20 PM 7/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
On 7 January 2011 23:56, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
requirement. Since the Australian government, virtually alone, publishes
I was under the assumption that the NZ govt, if not many others,
published data under the same/similar license
At 02:47 PM 7/01/2011, David Groom wrote:
- Original Message - From: Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz
In the case of the UK OS, there is a switch from a potential requirement for
level 4 attribution to a clear requirement for level 1, so the Open
Government Licence is definitely good news
At 02:47 PM 7/01/2011, David Groom wrote:
- Original Message - From: Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz
In the case of the UK OS, there is a switch from a potential requirement for
level 4 attribution to a clear requirement for level 1, so the Open
Government Licence is definitely good news
At 03:32 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
On 7 January 2011 00:45, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Clause 4 of the new CTs may cover us completely, [it was designed for
governmental organisations] and I have updated
IMHO, section 4 is useless unless there is some kind of clause stating
At 05:04 PM 6/01/2011, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
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
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attributionhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution.
Mike
At 04:42 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
Which clause 3 contradicts
On 1/7/11, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
At 03:32 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote:
On 7 January 2011 00:45, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz
Thanks Tom, this is excellent news and what the License Working Group was
hoping would happen.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htmhttp://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm
At 10:11 PM 5/01/2011, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Mike,
I have provisionally added Francis' suggested wording but would like
to run it by other License Working Group members. It may help NearMap
and similar situations.
The major change in all this, compared to the earlier versions, is the concept
I have provisionally added Francis' suggested wording but would like to run it
by other License Working Group members. It may help NearMap and similar
situations.
Here is the CT version that we are looking at formally releasing:
://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfbhttp://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfb
and currently released 1.0 text
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms
should be diff-marked with colour highlighting and strike-outs.
Mike
At 07:39 PM 5/12/2010, Mike
Before this thread goes any further,Yes, a cock-up I believe, possibly mine.
The un-highlighted text should be the same as CT 1.0. Thank you fx99 for
pointing it out. Will investigate.
Mike
At 03:39 PM 3/12/2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
David Groom wrote:
If the OSMF board wish to move
The License Working Group had a request from a contributor to make a statement
to the effect that users who sign up to v1.0 of the Contributor Terms will be
allowed to upgrade to future versions. I am now happy to provide such a
formal statement:
All the rights granted in the new proposed
At 08:42 PM 25/10/2010, Mâ¡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2010/10/25 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote:
I just answered a user's question on how to accept the new contributor
terms. I'll quote his statement here:
''How do we
For details about LoroDux:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LoroDux
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My very best to Steve. I've been through this with my own baby, a digital
animation company, and it is a bruising experience.
I continue to welcome in the OSM community anyone who is lucky enough to be
also professionally or entrepreneurially engaged and personally rather hope
Steve finds a
Paris City Council will publish 20 data sets before the end of this year under
ODbL 1.0. Members of our own French community and chapitre Creative Commons
France [1] (!!) have had involvement in this process. Congratulations to Paris
and to them.
To come back on topic, I don't think this has made legal-talk yet. Thanks to
Jordan Hatcher, whose mail I am re-working:
The new UK Open Government Licence is now out:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm
At 09:03 AM 5/10/2010, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
Ed Avis e...@... writes:
Perhaps there should be a meta-contributor-terms where you agree to
accept future
contributor terms proposed by the OSMF. Then there wouldn't be the need to
re-ask everybody each time the contributor terms change.
At 02:58 AM 5/10/2010, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:15 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote:
The particular issues I believe you have concerns with have also been
discussed extensively on this list. You wont be surprised if I say that not
everyone agrees with you
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The License Working Group met Tuesday. Most, if not all, comment at the moment
is on the Contributor Terms. Therefore we will devote next week's meeting (Aug
31) entirely to going though each issue already raised. We will then pass these
on to legal counsel for review. When we get a response,
Liz,
You asked about the early intent of the Contributor Terms before they were
re-written by legal counsel. As promised:
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes or directly
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lVQlsnuEKPY2gjspScwHqgmo8RyoqmuaWWmWh58T4TY
0.1
At 10:46 AM 14/08/2010, Rob Myers wrote:
On 08/14/2010 07:33 AM, Liz wrote:
If you believe, like many data donors, that the attribution must be preserved,
then a licence which incorporates the viral provisions is necessary.
The ODbL does incorporate attribution. From a given work you can find
At 05:50 PM 22/08/2010, David Groom wrote:
Intent:
(1) Section 4 always was intended to allow and encourage governmental
organisation imports that require attribution under the standard terms
without need for derogation.
(2) Maintain maximum flexibility for future choices. The license used in
At 10:11 AM 13/08/2010, 80n wrote:
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM, David Groom
mailto:revi...@pacific-rim.netrevi...@pacific-rim.net wrote:
b) Ignoring the Yahoo data, but taking any data that may have had a PD or
CC-BY-SA clause that has be used in import, since these are general
permissions
At 12:02 PM 11/08/2010, David Groom wrote:
2) Where does PD data (mainly TIGER, NHS, NPS, NAIP imagery, USGS imagery)
fall with regards to contributor terms, specifically You have **explicit**
permission from the rights holder to submit the Contents and grant the
licence below?'
The general
As promised, and long awaited, the next phase of the OSM License Upgrade has
arrived. Phase 2 - Existing Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing [1] has begun,
and you may indicate your acceptance of the new Contributor Terms for your
existing OSM API account. To accept the terms visit
What ifs, what ifs. The key is clearly to reduce these. So, in summary, we'll
proceed with a voluntary program of sign-up for the new OpenStreetMap
Contributor Terms [1]. Those that simply want to get on and accept that we
won't doing anything daft can sign up.Those that are worried about
At 05:16 PM 10/08/2010, Brian Quinion wrote:
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new
Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike
license written especially
At 10:12 AM 2/07/2010, Mike Collinson wrote:
Europeans, why sit at home and watch your team get beaten by the Brazilians?
Switch off the TV and immediately follow these steps:
Well of course what I meant to say was the Argentines, ... er, no I didn't.
Slick marketing was never my strong point
Oh, this year I'm off to sunny Spain,
Que viva mi mappa!
I'm taking the Barcelona plane, [1]
Que viva Espana!
Then on to a local train [2]
Que viva el RENFE (renfay)!
Check into a hotel or aparta-mento [3]
Que viva Girona!
If you've not been to SOTM herefore
Es un buen con-ferencia! [4]
Da Me
At 02:48 PM 23/06/2010, Andy Sinclair wrote:
What is the recommended way to identify gates on a cycle route?
Is barrier=gate sufficient, or do I need to add other information
regarding access?
That is all I use at the moment, though sometimes putting bicycle=yes,
foot=yes,motorcar=no ... when
Thank you, Tom and anyone else involved in working on this. Much appreciated as
always.
And, to quote, Richard Weait, http://donate.openstreetmap.org/;.
Mike
At 06:44 PM 15/06/2010, Grant Slater wrote:
OSM Talk,
Website and API is now up and running again after earlier issues.
Happy mapping.
Hi,
If you have been involved in bulk import of data from third-parties, may I ask
you to check that this is on
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Cataloguehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue
.
Why? Now we have final versions of everything, the License Working Group is
Comments in-line.
At 06:14 PM 19/05/2010, Ãvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:42, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
Great idea, thanks for taking the initiative on this. I had a go with your
text and the underlying ideas we used to construct the terms below
I am pleased to announce that we went live today with new contributor terms,
for NEW contributors and we already have contributors signed up. OpenStreetMap
has NOT yet moved to the new license.
A copy of the terms can be viewed here,
At 04:23 PM 12/05/2010, Jochen Topf wrote:
This contains: You hereby grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license to do any act that is restricted
by copyright over anything within the Contents
Why is such as blanket license necessary?
This puts the OSMF
At 04:28 PM 12/05/2010, Tom Hughes wrote:
On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote:
This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If
somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't
think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the
At 04:37 PM 12/05/2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
Now saying new contributors have to agree to the CC-By-SA and ODbL is
a little unprecise. I thought that was the case based on the two mail
announcements sent today, but it's the Contributor Terms, not ODbL
based on what Avar reports.
I may be
Interesting, the CC BY SA quote does rather suggest that such an application is
not CC BY SA compliant.
Two linked observations almost lead me to believe that the closed nature of a
platform is irrelevant, what is important is the effort made by the individual
developer to keep data/images
at http://stateofthemap.org/register-now/ and I look forward to seeing
you there,
Mike Collinson
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And I discovered something interesting that may be applicable countrywide. A
member of the Ramblers Association kindly made a definitive footpath map for me
in the 1970s - hand-inked on the Otley and Ilkley OS 1:25000 sheets. As I
recall, this was around the time the original PRoW survey was
Jonas,
Getting in touch with the user courteously is certainly the best start.
Andrew Errington, CC'd, hosts talk-ko and may also be able to help.
If first steps do not resolve, the OSMF Foundation's Data Working Group [1] can
provide help. Most or all are members of this list anyway.
Mike
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_48c4sgs3d4http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_48c4sgs3d4
shows where we are at.
We've one open question about natural person below that we would appreciate
input on.
Apart from that, this is the version we would like to finalise on and which has
had
Thanks Oliver.
We have a separate project to look at general terms of use of OSM and OSMF
websites where this certainly is an issue. These Contributor Terms are strictly
for the addition of geodata. We have not been advised it has been an issue but
it will do no harm to check explicitly if
When the new Contributor Terms are really complete (not yet) we will need
Italian and French translations pretty fast in accordance with the laws of
those countries for the original version to be in native language.
We have a couple of avenues that may help us with that but nothing finalised
At 11:41 PM 15/02/2010, Hal Bertram wrote:
On 15/02/10 09:25, Jukka Rahkonen wrote
An active contributor is defined as:
a contributor (whether using a single or multiple accounts) who has edited
the
Project in any 3 calendar months from the last 6 months (i.e. there is a
demonstrated
We are wanting to introduce dual-licensing for *new* registrants as soon as we
have the new Contributor Terms nailed down. That means a final review of the
current wording by legal counsel and then I'll ask for any last(?) comments
from this list.
We've made some changes in order to try and
If you just like looking at maps:
Early Irish maps from State Papers c.1558 - c.1610
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/irishmaps.asp
Mike
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Here is an update from the License Working Group.
We feel we've reached a reasonable community consensus to move forward
carefully based on results from the OSMF member vote and from the general
community poll (below).
At the moment, we are trying to address some concerns raised by OSM and
At 09:28 AM 2/01/2010, Jing Iya wrote:
Narcky and I are planning to map the whole of Orani, Bataan.
...
Wish me luck guys.
Sounds great. More good luck from me!
And a Happy New Year to all,
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At 12:29 PM 10/12/2009, Bob Kerr wrote:
Openstreetmap made the Guardians top 100 again this year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/09/best-websites-internet
Cheers
Bob
A rights-free map created by people like you. Remarkably detailed and precise.
I wonder if we can, er, borrow
At 12:28 AM 7/12/2009, Simon Ward wrote:
Ive received the mail, answered the poll, and also the preference poll.
In the preference poll, I understand the term viral licenseâ but ask
that people refrain from using that term: It has the implication that
it is a bad thing - it may be in some
At 09:24 PM 6/12/2009, morb@beagle.com.au wrote:
Quoting Anthony o...@inbox.org:
Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from
people who don't agree is going to get dropped. At least for the
contributors who don't respond one way or the other. It's just going
At 10:26 PM 5/12/2009, Ian Dees wrote:
On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote:
If you are an OSMF member then you should have received an email
about this vote, which contains a URL with which you can access this
site. If you have not received an email, first please
perspective and in the heart of
technical intellectual property land.
Hope that helps,
Mike Collinson
OSMF License Working Group
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Here is a quick report from the License Working Group as we have been rather
quiet.
Since the proposal we made to the OSMF board in August and at SOTM 2009, we
have been working on a number of small issues raised but now getting on
track to make our final formal license change proposal to OSMF
At 08:19 PM 15/09/2009, Chris Hill wrote:
I live near Hull, its proper name of course is Kingston upon Hull. It
has the long name on the map, but everyone knows it as Hull. I think it
would be better to use the shorter name and adding the long name as
alt_name. Any comments?
Cheers, Chris
state is the Map Features tag value for states, provinces and roughly
synonomous high-level national subdivisions.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dstate
FYI, editing them is real easy with XAPI. The following is a bounding box for
the Philippines. It will download a file that
highway=cycleway
foot=yes
cycleway=separated (not a Map Features value)
I acknowledge a personal bias towards mapping for cyclists, others will
disagree. My rationale is: As a cyclist, I am looking for cycleways on the map.
As a pedestrian, I'd like to know if I can got for a nice quiet meander
At 16:33 21/08/2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/8/21 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org:
  I just stumpled across this list of awards that Wikipedia seem to
have for their contributors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Service_awards
One part of me finds them funny, and
Bit late but punch Big Banana into the slippy map name finder. I saw Big
Banana on a map in the early '80s and just had to drive there to see what
was. Well, it was just that. Awe inspiring as bananas go but no explanatory
sign, nothing else. Now it is a developed tourist facility.
Mike
At 02:20 AM 16/08/2009, Richard Weait wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Frederik Rammfrede...@remote.org wrote:
...
Do you and Steve have any comment on Richard Weait's suggestion that
from every commercial organisation, at most one person should be a
member of the OSMF board
OpenStreetMap is now five years old. To celebrate, may I invite anyone in the
Stockholm area or indeed any OSM mappers in Sweden to my house on 5th
September. Barbecue outside unless raining.
My house is here, number 7:
At 10:20 PM 7/08/2009, OJ W wrote:
sidewalks in villages - what to do?
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.172898lon=-0.524788zoom=18
are they footpaths or are they road attributes?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Footway
A corollary but very important issue is
The dilemma for for us at the main OSM Foundation is that by setting up local
chapters, our main reliable source of funding, the annual subscriptions that
members pay, may no longer come in directly. Much of that money is spent on
computer hardware to keep our sites up, and a proportion on
At 02:06 AM 7/08/2009, maning sambale wrote:
3. Local contributors have overtaken Mike Collinson's contributions.
Hehehe. I think Mike would love that to happen. Although 95% of
total ways and nodes are from the top 20 contributors. I think 80-20
would be ideal.
Yeah! No worries here!
The
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This is experiment for a multi-language list for discussion in Italian, French,
German, Slovenian, Romanche and, oh, may be English too. If it does not
Excellent. The guy who put together the code that flips from Yahoo map tiles
to OSM ones for certain parts of the world gave a talk at SOTM 2009. They host
the tiles themselves and do not update them often. Since Flickr is partly or
wholly owned by Yahoo, he admitted that they were not
Thanks for looking at this ... I put in most of those buildings. There also
deletions like the carparks in Centralplan which have been ground-truthed so I
don't think this is a properly planned edit.
The easiest way should be to use Potlatch U (show deleted ways) and H (show
history and has a
I don't know whether this has been explored before, but a tit-bit from Bob Barr
who gave a SOTM key note last year and enjoyed himself so he came again.
Bob is councillor in ?Warrington and once asked all the councils in the greater
Manchester area for boundary data. All supplied him
At 00:06 08/07/2009, Russ Nelson wrote:
On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:53 PM, SteveC wrote:
On 7 Jul 2009, at 23:26, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote:
After the years of iterations don't you think it sucks that your
simple
easy REST-based model is now made so difficult in 0.6?
Mozart had
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At 05:03 PM 6/07/2009, Marloue Pidor wrote:
We're on the process of incorporating the PIOs into OSM. It a success next
stop is Island Garden City of Samal (Samal Island) the resort island of Davao
del Norte. Well, it is just a plan :)
Congrats.
Next stop a resort island? Its tough but
I think that sounds excellent. The tagging scheme is applicable globally and
to not just banks but any retail activity.
Mike
At 03:37 AM 29/06/2009, maning sambale wrote:
Hi,
I would like to propose the following additional tags for bank POIs:
amenity=bank
name=Bank of the Philippines
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A really important poetry event that I almost forgot about.
SOTM 2009 is almost with us and over 200 people coming. 201 if you have
forgotten to register.
Last year we had some great Limerick poems for the Limerick State Of the Map
Conference. This year, the format is the Haiku.
At 03:57 PM 26/06/2009, Peter Miller wrote:
My concern here is to try to avoid creating an interesting target for
'carpet baggers' who may wish to 'privatise' OSM in the way that the
mutual building societies were privatised in the past ten years in the
UK.
There is now a talk-vi Vietnam-specific mapping parties, topics and discussion
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this forum.
The Philippines now has a great map of Manila and recently had a very
successful mapping party on nearby Tagaytay so it is
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At 01:53 PM 21/06/2009, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hello Mike,
I made one boo-boo:
natural=moor should be place=moor as it is really an administrative
designation. The examples in the database are place=moor.
Mike
Isn't a moor a natural feature though, like a heath, etc?
That is what I thought
At 06:00 PM 18/06/2009, Russ Nelson wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Russ Nelson wrote:
Yes, but your result has to be licensed under the CC-By-SA,
which means that in principle, somebody could republish your
composition. In practice, nobody has complained about
Just catching up on my talk-GB email and was looking at Nick's nice new
free-map. Ilkley Moor is on, so it is clearly Ideologically Sound. Thanks Nick.
The Yorkshire moors look very empty though. There is a whole wealth of
detail that can be added from NPE and local knowledge. Many
I made one boo-boo:
natural=moor should be place=moor as it is really an administrative
designation. The examples in the database are place=moor.
Mike
At 05:22 PM 19/06/2009, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
Hello Mike,
Just catching up on my talk-GB email and was looking at Nick's nice new
free-map.
shop=vulcanizing
+1
The shop tag is for any retail product or service. When we were debating its
format, it seemed while there is a smallish set of natural core values like
shop=supermarket, the larger set has to be tailored to individual countries'
needs and cultures.
Mike
At 07:19 AM
At 08:46 AM 17/06/2009, maning sambale wrote:
Just curious is this just a pinoy thing (vulcanizing)? Or we havesimilar shops
like this in other countries.
A Pinoy thing! ... I must admit when I first came to the Philippines I had to
ask what it meant though I now understand it is the proper
Has anyone mapped this one yet?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/web/mps-duck-island-folly-exposed-on-google-earth/2009/05/22/1242498910263.html
Mike
Caveat: My lawyer only allowed me to post this if I point out that as the data
is from Google Earth, we cannot use it in OpenStreetMap.
At 10:43 AM 21/05/2009, maning sambale wrote:
Hi,
Some GPS/data contributor (not osm contributor), suggested I add place
reference to POI like in the name tag Jollibee (Morato) or
Jollibee-Morato something. Adding this should allow referencing of
POI names in GPS units. However, we have an
Here are three proposals for identifying high level marine features that I
already use.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Ocean
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Sea
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Archipelago
Comments on each
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