Hi Eldad,
It sounds like your meta data is derived from the OSM map data, in which case
it must be licensed as CC-BY-SA.
This doesn't mean you have to actively contribute it back to the community. You
can restrict access or allow users to set up access controls on your website.
But if someone
information. We are evolving it to help folks such as yourself, so if there is
anything unclear or confusing, please do no hesitate to email me.
Mike
On 16/04/2011 15:55, Simon Biber wrote:
Hi Eldad,
It sounds like your meta data is derived from the OSM map data, in which case
it
must
Marcus Blake marcus.bl...@abs.gov.au wrote Wed, 23 February, 2011 11:31:50:
From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is that an the
OSM database would hold a copy of the official version of the boundaries and
that this point of truth would be available for all OSM users
Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote:
But there is no restriction to do with any work that is not protected by
license or PD. In that sense any license is a restriction.
Not true, any copyrightable work that is not licensed or PD is assumed to be
all rights reserved, and nobody may copy it
Fabian Schmidt fschm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote:
So far 3700 mappers agreed to the new license. Out of 68 million ways 46% are
created and edited only by people who did accept the ODBL. 42% were not edited
by a proponent of ODBL, the remaining 12% of the ways have a mixed history.
You
Fabian Schmidt fschm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de wrote:
So far 3700 mappers agreed to the new license. Out of 68 million ways 46% are
created and edited only by people who did accept the ODBL. 42% were not edited
by a proponent of ODBL, the remaining 12% of the ways have a mixed history.
You
On Tue, 19 October, 2010 2:45:08 PM, Toby Murray toby.mur...@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't after just straight statistics. I was wanting to do some analysis of
bot activity and such so I need information on users, changesets and map
objects.
So by the resounding silence on this list I'm guessing
On Wed, 15 September, 2010 11:28:29 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Just to clarify, we have not concluded discussions with NearMap and
discussion
is still positive. The removal of the NearMap option in Potlatch was prompted
a
few weeks by back, but was only actioned
On Thu, 2 September, 2010 11:22:54 AM, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Besides, there's nothing in the Google Terms of Service which says you may
not
make use of the facts you learn by using this website. That'd just be silly.
Not to mention unconscionable, and therefore
On Sun, 22 August, 2010 11:55:27 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote:
As I'm interested in keeping my data within OSM and find a common ground with
rest of you, I'm delighted to see that requests to specify 'free and open
license' in CT section 3 has been taken into account[1]. Huge
On Mon, 16 August, 2010 9:36:50 AM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote:
There's still such a bug: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2700
This often happens to me in Potlatch. Here's my usual use case. An intersection
of two streets needs to be converted to a roundabout.
1. Split
On 13/08/2010, at 8:17, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote:
Firstly, as you say sometime in the past. So Yahoo gave permission when
the project has a CC-BY-SA licence. The contributor terms allow the
switching of the licence to a non-CC-BY-SA licence. So how can I possibly
James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote:
Each state is done once every seven years, that doesn't seem overly frequent
to
me.
In my experience electoral redistributions happen after every election (4 years
apart).
A little research shows that in my state, South Australia, members of
Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
Where a street name is added or corrected via our site, our current approach
is
to add or modify the source tag to be nearmap, but yesterday I was
(coincidentally) looking at whether we should be appending to any existing
source so that we don't
If there's a way tagged:
highway=residential
name=Leigh Street
source=survey
And the positioning is obviously sub-standard (such as a single node for a 90
degree turn, where the street actually curves with a radius of 10 to 20
metres),
I would add, say, 4 more nodes to approximate the
Hi Ben,
Looks like there are two camps on this.
One says grape-growing is a type of agriculture so we should reuse existing
tags
for farms and their crops:
landuse=farm, crop=grapes, produce=wine
The other says wineries are sufficiently different that they should get their
own tag:
Ulf Möller o...@ulfm.de wrote:
The LWG has stated that specific contributor terms will be considered on a
case
by case basis for external data sources. If NearMap are happy with the ODbL
but
not with the Contributor Terms then maybe that should be done here.
So can these specific
ed...@billiau.net ed...@billiau.net wrote:
that bridge seems to have a bike track on the eastern side which descends
into the water
The Wikipedia article on Ted Smout Memorial Bridge says The new bridge
features ... A fishing platform near the Pine River channel. The platform
measures 10
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 July 2010 10:05, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
What about adding to those tags
* leisure: pitch
Didn't seem big enough to play football or cricket...
I don't think size is the deciding factor... pitch is used in general
John Henderson snow...@gmx.com
Is the alternative to make (almost) the entire coastline a fishing pitch?
Only where there are designated fishing areas. And by that I mean something
that's visible on the ground, like a place where you can stand and fish. Not
just open water which is covered by
Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote:
It'd be better like this:
http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/FTN_CommunicationCity_06t.png
eDuShi (meaning eCity) has made cool real isometric 3D maps of many cities in
China. The style is somewhere in between cartoon and reality, but
zve...@textual.ru zve...@textual.ru wrote:
Those names are not rendered, obviously, because most streets consist of
several
ways, due to routing and public transport reasons.
Hmm, what routing reasons? The only cases where streets need to be split into
multiple ways, in my experience, is
I just wrote simonbi...@yahoo.com.au:
However, in your example area, many of the streets are divided into what seems
like an unnecessarily large number of ways. If the tagging doesn't change
between adjacent ways, then shouldn't the ways be merged into a single way?
Sorry, please disregard
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 June 2010 09:55, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote:
No idea, but FWIW wouldn't highway=give_way be more consistent with
other OSM tags? i.e. separating words with an underscore...
There was only 13 of those, so it doesn't seem like
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
They seem to be
called horse stiles in NZ, or maybe it was a brit
taking photos in
NZ...
I found the website of an Australian business, Town Country Maintenance
Fencing, based in northern Adelaide.
There's a clear picture and a description on
Gregory nomoregra...@googlemail.com wrote:
If I'm mapping I try and keep nodes intact and edit the tagging
to preserve the ID and history, but there are cases where this
can't happen.
Another example where ID and history are lost is when we change items from
single nodes to areas, as we get
David wrote:
In summary, it is 21km long and is one-way for 10.5hrs, dual-way
for
1.5hr, then one-way in the opposite direction for 10.5hrs and
dual-way again for 1.5hr. Then just for fun, on weekends, the
day/night pattern is reversed.
David, as a local resident I can tell you the Southern
From: Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com
Have a look at Auckland NZ for some really excellent landuse mapping.
Could list members also please take a look at my local area (Alberton,
Rosewater, Pennington SA) where I'm nearly finished putting in all the
footpaths and land use. Please do zoom in
From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
Cool, did you
notice the first link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_hierarchy
That kind of settles it, really.
Note that when the Wikipedia article was first created, the lowest-level
settlement was called Lone Farmhouse. It was changed
From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com
1) They're clearly mini roundabouts. I go straight over them on my bike.
You're not supposed to go over a roundabout, unless your vehicle's lack of
turning ability necessitates it! :-)
2) The roads you've mapped out don't even follow the aerial photos
It seems the shading for marsh / wetland is stuffed up in north-western
Adelaide (Rosewater, Gillman, Wingfield, Pennington, Athol Park), with large
areas marked as marsh that shouldn't be.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.8384lon=138.5531zoom=14layers=0B00FTF
Is this a bug with
From: John Henderson snow...@gmx.com
I live in Canberra and noticed the same thing some time ago. I haven't
found an excuse yet to visit the specific area.
But the history seems to indicate that it could be legit:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16165199/history
GPS trace of
Hi Markus
Please don't use sources without checking their license conditions first. The
license that seems to apply is this one:
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/DataDownloadLicenceAgreement.pdf
Which states:
The Licensee is not permitted to copy or reproduce the Datasets in any form
for the
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