Re: [Talk-GB] LCN - Local Cycle Network

2011-11-28 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Thanks Andy. Makes sense to me. Do you know if there is anywhere a list of proposed Sustrans routes (not based on OS mapping hopefully) that could be used for fact-checking some of the more wishful proposed cycle ways in OSM? Andy R and I have a list of three-digit NCN

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Retain PD mapper's contributions?

2011-11-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Honestly both solutions are kind of ugly because they mess up edits history. If some data is PD then it should be possible to just retain it in the event of a license change, the SQL query is unlikely to change its legal status. Surely you understand that the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyprotection for OSM based material

2011-11-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: But to be hornest, we aren't legal experts, so it would be great to get a statement of people that are more aware of all of the legal aspects. 1. You cannot apply extra conditions to the licence (CC-BY-SA 4a, as you say). 2. Your website may have its own terms of use that restrict

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It's not like it's going to be hard to recreate all this stuff. It didn't take long to create in the first place and remapping it is going to be a lot of fun isn't it? Yep, exactly. It's actually surprisingly easy, especially with features such as railway lines that are easily

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Václav Řehák wrote: Any tile server provided by the app author will be way behind in the updates. I expect the Locus tile server to be updated once in a week or so making it unusable for my weekend mapping trips. I think this, sadly, falls under the category of collateral damage. The 1% of

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I encourage you and others to get involved in the Foundation (ie become members, get active on the lists, tell the board your feelings, vote) You missed out the most important one: help cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-16 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Using this O-trick violates the copyright of the previous owner, just as copying from google would violate their terms of service. As they have been for at least three years now, Gert, your opinions about Potlatch are 100% venting and 0% actual knowledge

Re: [OSM-talk] Portugal proposal for the SOTM 2012

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andreas Labres wrote: 1. accessability with low cost air carriers ...and please remember those of us who try to travel by sustainable means, too. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Portugal-proposal-for-the-SOTM-2012-tp6990490p6995954.html

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: We suggest that re-mapping by individuals is more important initially than automated revert scripts as it puts back often more and better content than was taken out. We'd like therefore promote that and to concentrate on tools to help folks easily see what needs

Re: [OSM-talk] License Change final cutover date

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
ThomasB wrote: the April 1st is mentioned in the LWG minutes and in a LWG mail to legal talk. However, as a non native english speaker I am a bit confused by the vague wording. Is the date final, if nothing material happens in the meantime Yes - barring unforeseen circumstances (of

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Laughton wrote: Perhaps you could explain to us what happens if a third party takes OSM data, and publishes it without any attribution at all. Would they be in violation of the Open Database License ? Yes. The summary (http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/) says:

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[crosspost removed] 80n wrote: Most importantly it allows subsequent copies of the produced work to be made with no attribution. No, it doesn't. An attribution statement without a downstream requirement is not reasonably calculated. This has been gone over ad nauseam in legal-talk. Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: Do make comments/suggestions on the wiki pages... the tags we're using are still evolving. I have changed craft|industrial=cider_house to craft|industrial=cider (and the same for perry). A cider house is a pub that predominantly serves cider, not a producer. There is no

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: The Oxford English Dictionary got it wrong then: *cider-house* n. a building in which cider is made. Far be it for me to criticise the august OED (though I'm more of a Chambers man), but yes, it did. http://www.thecoronationtap.com/ - Clifton's original, and still it's only,

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Aston Manor Brewery in Birmingham no longer makes ales; just cider, on an industrial scale - yet retains the word Brewery in its name. :-( I'd argue it doesn't really make anything recognisable as cider, either, but that's a whole different argument. ;) (not quite fair -

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: We have real cider now as well? Yep, although I think it's less of a binary yes/no than with real ale. CAMRA has a lengthy definition at http://www.camra.org.uk/page.aspx?o=aboutciderandperry , though it's worth noting that cider-drinkers generally don't regard CAMRA with

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-11-14 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: I believe that it's both, actually. It was the Bass Museum, then got closed and eventually reopened under its current name after the musical chairs enforced by the MMC when Interbrew had to sell Bass to Coors. FWIW I think it was the Bass Museum; then the Coors Visitor

Re: [Talk-GB] Size - Importance of features - (Was Drinking Map of UK)

2011-11-06 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: This will inevitably be subjective So we don't do it. :) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Verifiability From a given scenario, a tag/value combination is verifiable if and only if independent users when observing the same feature would make the same observation every

Re: [Talk-us] Address improvement through imports?

2011-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: Maybe someone (heh) could do a purpose-built fork of Potlatch designed especially for pulling in address info without displaying any other road data to eliminate confusion You probably don't even need to fork it. I suspect you could get most of the way there with a

Re: [Talk-GB] Tagging references to web-enabled databases (war memorials others)

2011-11-01 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Generally speaking, is it best to use the full URL; UKNIWM_URL = http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.2049 or the unique ID part: UKNIWM_ID = 2049 Generally we have taken the approach that such data should not be included in OSM; we are not a mashup centre for

[Talk-GB] Wales Coast Path

2011-10-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
The Welsh Government is creating a 850-mile Coast Path, to incorporate long-established routes such as the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, more recent ones such as the Ceredigion Coast Path, and new sections. It's set to open in May 2012. Work seems to be progressing well:

Re: [Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

2011-10-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Brian Prangle wrote: what do you call places where they make cider/perry? awesome cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Drinking-Map-of-UK-tp6945690p6946350.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk] Yahoo Imagery

2011-10-19 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: Hi! A month ago we said bye to Yahoo imagery due to the shutting down of some of their services. But it is still available in both Potlatch versions. As Tom says, the situation with permission has not changed either way. Yahoo have slightly extended the switch-off period

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF to provide commercial tile service? [WAS: something else]

2011-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I go back to my central point: We're spending a lot of time blocking people and explaining to people why they're blocked. Let's find a way to turn this adversarial relationship into a cooperative one. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this? I do. If I read you

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenMaps App Blocked By OpenStreetMap

2011-10-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Zsombor Szabó wrote: This way browsing and bulk downloading users can clearly be identified on the server side and throttled or banned if necessary. It's good that you're making changes, but there's two misapprehensions that need clearing up. Firstly, our sysadmins are unpaid volunteers who

Re: [Talk-GB] Relation for M5?

2011-10-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mark S wrote: Looking at the wiki (route=road) it seems to suggest a relation can be used here. Road route relations are useful in the US, and some other countries, where a section of road can belong to two routes. In the UK, each road can only belong to one route (i.e. an unambiguous ref=

Re: [Talk-GB] Relation for M5?

2011-10-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Colin Smale wrote: * there are lots of stretches of roads with (ostensibly) two UK numbers (segment is shared between two routes) Nope - there aren't. That's a popular misconception. Where (for example) the A11 disappears into the A14 east of Cambridge, for example, the road really is only

Re: [OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: I'm writing this response for two reasons. First, because I want you, Dimka, and the rest of the Israeli community to read it. You're not representing your side very well based on the forums. For reference, the thread cited is here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: More in general, I don't like mappers adding manually tons of 'FIXME' tags because they don't know or remember or are too lazy to check again. This a way to say 'pff, I'm tired now. So please, the next person checking this area, finish my work in priority. If you don't know,

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: d) Add a short stub tagged highway=path You can't tell without a fixme whether something is a stub because it's incomplete, or because it really is like that. Example: http://osm.org/go/eutFfSar-- . That looks very much like a stub because bridleways don't peter out in the middle

Re: [OSM-talk] Fixme: A proposal

2011-10-03 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Kev js1982 wrote: Whats the best way of finding these, the only one i have seen is the ito analysis but they dont offer zooming in :-( OSM Inspector is very good. And hopefully Frederik will be along in a minute to tell you how to use it from within Potlatch. :) Until then -

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 missing?

2011-10-01 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Sturdy wrote: Could the site put up a message if the wrong version of flash is running? Yep, Grant is working on upgrading us to swfobject 2.x (the Flash embedding code) which gives auto-upgrade and all sorts of wondrous stuff. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Peter Dobratz wrote: Yes, OSMF US shouldn't mandate a certain tagging scheme, but they could certainly help to facilitate a consensus among the community. I'm definitely of the small government party for what OSMF (and by extension local chapters) should do. But one of the roles of OSMF,

Re: [Talk-us] What does the community want from a US local chapter?

2011-09-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Really? Are there people who say I'd rather not map because there is no consensus on the roads tagging? Are those people the 20,000 missing mappers in the US? I don't think it's all 20,000, no. :) But it's certainly significant and it is - correction, it _should_ be -

Re: [Talk-GB] 'Can't load map'

2011-09-29 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Correct. I think the actual message is 'couldn't load the map'. Sometimes it will load the data eventually if one persists, but generally it is better to give it a rest for a few hours and try later. It only occurs using Potlatch 2 btw, Potlatch 1 still works fine and

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

2011-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: I also think that a voluntary opt-in review system would work - and only really needs someone to write one, and a JOSM plugin, and a Potlatch 2 patch. I'll very happily patch P2, assuming the please review functionality can be built into the core Rails site. (OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Helping mappers feel comfortable about their contributions / quality control

2011-09-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Gregory wrote: How would the reviewer be selected? Why do you need to select a reviewer? The OWL-powered changeset listing could highlight those changesets where review has been requested. Experienced mappers browsing the recent changes (as experienced mappers do) would see these, and contact

Re: [Talk-GB] British Antarctic Territories

2011-09-26 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Yet again we see the lazy armchair mappers trying to 'map' areas they have never visited. Instead of wasting time with dubious-quality Ordnance Survey maps why don't we organize some mapping parties and community outreach to the penguins? That's a terrific idea!

Re: [OSM-talk] satellite Imagery missing

2011-09-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 90% of my mapping is in such areas - gps, josm and repeated visits to the area are needed. Camera and laser range finder are a plus. JOSM is absolutely not needed for GPS surveying - you can use it if you like, but I do pretty much all my mapping in Potlatch with GPS

Re: [Talk-us] Gnash 0.8.8, Iceweasel 3.5.16, and debian64 6.0.2 = potlatch 1 unsuable!

2011-09-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
jerjozwik wrote: something known going on here? must i install adobe flash? Pretty much. If you don't like installing any proprietary software on your machine then your best bet is to use JOSM or Merkaartor. Gnash bugs should really be reported on the Gnash bugtracker. :) cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups should be to legal-talk yadda yadda] Russ Nelson wrote: What about the people who didn't agree to the CT, but whose data is in the public domain? See http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-August/006608.html et seq. Given that LWG doesn't appear to be changing

Re: [OSM-talk] How to start to remove non-CT compliant data..

2011-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Why not do what Wikipedia did and work together with the licence authors (in this case Creative Commons and Open Data Commons) to provide an automatic upgrade clause? Then nothing need be deleted. I expressly asked this a couple of years ago:

[OSM-legal-talk] Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-08-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
There's a curious statement in the LWG minutes for 2nd August (https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1252tt382df). Folks who have declined the new contributor terms but said their contributions are public domain. There has been a suggestion that such contributions should be maintained in

Re: [OSM-talk] [osmf-talk] Membership applications from Skobbler employees

2011-08-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[apologies for posting to talk rather than osmf-talk - very bizarrely, I appear to have been *un*subscribed from osmf-talk upon renewing my membership. Go figure. :) For those not following, the issue is the application of a large number of Skobbler employees to join OSMF, shortly before the OSMF

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-08-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: OSMF have permission to publish data as CC-By-SA, and in future from most contributors as ODbL. OSMF have no permission to publish data as PD at this time. TIGER PD data came from PD TIGER data sources. If the usernames in question have a PD source for the data

Re: [OSM-talk] Combined bicycle footway

2011-08-23 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[cc:ed to tagging@, suggest follow-ups go there] Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: +1, in Germany or Italy you will hardly find any place where a pedestrian can't pass but a cyclist can. There will be either a combined or segregated foot/cycleway instead of a bicycles only cycleway. On the contrary

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: Exactly my point. Great Britain is fine with ref=M1 despite there being an M1 in many other countries - and even in Northern Ireland, part of the same country. There are some little-known fields in OSM data called latitude and longitude, which allow you to find out

Re: [Talk-us] Use of ref-tag on state highways

2011-08-22 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: Those with established and often-edited cycle routes are always complaining that they're broken. The most recent case is this week: http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=13524 Last editor was JOSM, and if his analysis was correct, the most recent edit broke the

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for applications that transfer data from other road networks

2011-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[Forwarding two messages to the list from Angelika Voss - her messages have been rejected but there's no sign of them in the admin interface AFAICT. -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello, I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL for the use case described below. I have asked

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for publications comparing OSM with a reference dataset

2011-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
[second forwarded message -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello again, for one more use case I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL. Your answers are relevant for our research, and could be relevant for Muki Haklay and others who compare OSM with other reference datasets to

Re: [OSM-talk] Combined bicycle footway

2011-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Tomas Straupis wrote: I would like such combined ways to indicate that they are created for BOTH cyclists and walkers (especially then this would include segregated ones). They do indicate that. That's what the blue dots mean. A better suggestion would be show a different rendering for those

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Which brings me back to something I mentioned earlier - I would like to have some kind of link server where you can go and say I want a permanent link to this OSM object, then the server says ok, I have investigated the object you mentioned and I'd say I make the

Re: [OSM-talk] Id stability

2011-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Gregor Horvath wrote: OSM provides uri's to ID's which are linked to names of physical objects. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1381574156 No. It doesn't. OSM does not provide URIs to anyone. OSM has an _editing_ API. It's here to facilitate edits to the end product, which

Re: [Talk-GB] Bing imagery alignment in Potlatch 2

2011-07-31 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Jo Walsh wrote: A way to drag base layer like in JOSM. Hold Space and drag. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Bing-imagery-alignment-in-Potlatch-2-tp6638302p6638356.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Notion de créateur anonyme ; j'arrête le job.

2011-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hélène PETIT a écrit: Puis je suis partie à la recherche d'autres groupes de modification appartenant au user anonyme. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Anonymous_edits http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-November/020022.html

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-29 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Steve Coast wrote: Hi Robert Was this resolved with (I believe) Henk's email? Robert and Steve - has there been any progress on this yet? Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OS-OpenData-and-ODbL-OK-tp6545997p6633300.html Sent from the Great Britain

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-28 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: I once heard of a radio presenter who read out a request from someone living in 'Bewry Street Edmunds'! Eeeek. /me goes off to add not_name=Loogabarooga cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: I'd say the opposite is true. If it's pronounced Saint Albans then that is the name. Pronunciation in English only ever serves to mislead. :) Increasingly you can treat St as a valid spelling of the word saint, rather than merely an abbreviation. No (educated)

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The person that started this thread is in New Zealand... ...and started it with the comment does anyone here know what st albans in uk is actually called then?. Robin has also mapped parts of Britain - such as Repton, not far from where I'm sitting now. Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The period after St. is the correct way in English to abbreviate Saint, where as the abbreviation of street doesn't have a period. Not in British English, it isn't. _Saint._ St or S. is better than St. for the abbreviation (see PERIOD IN ABBR.); Pl. Sts or SS. That's from

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: I think it is actually written St Albans as stated above. Indeed. In British English orthography, Saint in place and streetnames is always written as St. (It's not such an anomaly: Mrs as an honorific is never expanded, either.) Mind you, British English orthography

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Oh, that's relatively benign. There are people with that name who would try to grab attention with ℳ∡ℝℸⅈℿ or something. Oh, we really should produce a map which renders the name High Street as H16H 5tr33t, etc. It could be called Open1337Map. cheers Richard -- View

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Interesting slip... of course I meant to say 'contacting'... :) So are there cases where people are thumbing their nose at the licence, but somehow if we used ODbL they would fall into line? Couldn't tell you that without reading their minds! I honestly don't know how many

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: I see that the ODbL fits your particular use case nicely. But as you acknowledge, things look different for people with other use cases. I expect that I'm one of those people whose favourite use cases won't benefit from ODbL - quite the opposite, in fact. I can certainly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-24 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: Currently, we offer reasonable terms to good guys. Bad guys might be able to squeeze out a bit more in some jurisdictions if they can live with bad press and severed community ties. That doesn't happen a lot, though - as far as I can tell - and the possibility just doesn't

[OSM-talk] Whitelisting (Re: Data reconciliation. Removing CT/ODbL declined users.)

2011-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: User balrog-kun has explicitly declined the license. He ran a bot that expanded abbreviations in TIGER street names in the western US which means that virtually every named street west of the Mississippi shows up as tainted in P2. *BUT* He has explicitly stated

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: There's a draft statement in the LWG minutes a few weeks ago [2]. I wonder if LWG got round to approving this at their most recent meeting... They have now done so! In response to community requests, the LWG formally clarifies as follows: The intent of the

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: In the mean time, could I suggest that other mappers don't start replacing my contributions just yet. Speaking personally: sure. I'm happy to leave your stuff alone for a week. I think replacing Etienne's contributions in the areas I'm interested in will keep me

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Now there was me thinking it was just a Potlatch problem. I'll delete my 5 as soon as P2 has the facility (and I can find it). You can delete a relation in P2 by selecting it in the Advanced view (which means you'll have to have selected a member of that relation, of

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Sarah Hoffmann wrote: I don't know about forbitting orphaned relations but it would certainly be helpful if the editors would show a big red warning sign if somebody tries to upload an empty relation. No. That would be entirely disproportionate. Empty relations don't do anyone any harm.

Re: [OSM-talk] Orphaned Relations

2011-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Sarah Hoffmann wrote: Wouldn't it be much easier to silently delete all empty relations when uploading the data? From a user point of view the result should be the same and you don't have to mess around with undo. It would certainly be easier, but I don't believe it's the Right Way To Do It.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Trouver les éléments CC-NY-SA qui ne passeront pas dans ODbL

2011-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Marc SIBERT a écrit: le fork, c'est *le* changement de licence. Après tout, le projet fosm n'est que le maintient de l'existant (la branche principale !). 98.7% vs 1.3% (d'aprés http://fred.dev.openstreetmap.org/license)? Ceci n'est pas un fork.

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Trouver les éléments CC-NY-SA qui ne passeront pas dans ODbL

2011-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Christophe Merlet (RedFox) wrote: Plus de 400 000 contributeurs OSM. Seul 29264 ont dit oui aux nouveaux termes du contributeur... Même pas 8%... Moins de 140 000 contributeurs OSM [1]: number of users != Number of contributors. 29 264 ont dit oui. De plus, environ 59 000 contributeurs

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-13 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I must congratulate David on his decision. [...] If any of you, at any time, feel that they seriously wish someone else in the project to burn in hell; if you can't sleep because someone was wrong on the mailing list; if you're thinking of ways to take revenge on the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who owns the copyright with ODbl?

2011-07-12 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Guy Collins wrote: Excuse this question if it has been answered in a wiki somewhere, but I would very much like to know who owns copyright of any data contributed under the Open Database Licence? The brief answer is: the mapper does, just as they do under our current licence (CC-BY-SA).

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
SimonPoole wrote: there is a fair chance that either the data could be relicensed under CC-by (which might be compatible with the ODbL) Absolutely. The Australian government data is CC-BY already (I'm not sure where this idea it's CC-BY-SA comes from). Negotiating compatibility with ODbL need

Re: [OSM-talk] Hitting reset on talk-au

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Unless you plan to enforce attribution as a minimum for produced works I'm not quite sure what I've done to deserve this Groundhog Day treatment and be condemned to relive the same mailing list postings again and again. 4.3 You must include a notice associated with the

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: I think the biggest problem people in .au had was that there were some issues which were specific to the Australian usage of OSM (imports of gov data, etc). Those who sought to change the licence claimed to be listening to people, but when Australian mappers raised issues, we

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
On 11/07/2011 10:13, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 19:04, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: they don't have to be the same licence. That unambiguously works with ODbL (4.5a): whether it works with CC is a moot point because CC is unclear for data licensing, but it's likely that

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
On 11/07/2011 10:52, John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 19:29, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: It's not using it under a licence other than CC-BY-SA. A Collective Database or Collective Work means that the ODbL part of it is under ODbL and the CC-BY-SA part is under CC-BY-SA. This

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Are you sure? ODbL defines 'Collective Database Means this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent databases ..'. Therefore if you cut out Australia it cant be part of a collective database, because it is not the whole database in an

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Which seems to me to that you are agreeing with my point, that these are derivative databases, not collective databases as you first argued. No: one is a Derivative Database (ODbL) and the other a Derivative Work (CC-BY-SA), but the combination of the two is a Collective

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: Well for a start 4.8 only comes into play when you communicate a derivative database Which you are doing, as part of a Collective Database. Incorporating a Derivative Database into a Collective Database does not absolve you of ODbL's requirements, or remove its freedoms, for

[talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
I think it's reasonably obvious by now that the two sides in this debate aren't ever going to be reconciled. It's not exclusively an .au problem, but it is mostly. If you look at any of the analysis done recently, Australia simply hasn't taken to ODbL+CT in the way that other countries have.

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 00:02, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: Germany 90.1% Great Britain 89.1% France 96.8% North America 96.4% Russia 97.2% Australia 48.4% You didn't show Albania which has an even low acceptance rate,

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 07:54, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: Indeed, I was concentrating on the big guys. Albania isn't a big guy. Not sure what your point is about imports but neither GB nor Germany have particularly significant numbers of imports - the only major

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 11 July 2011 08:16, Richard Fairhurstrich...@systemed.net wrote: Can we not - both sides - agree to work on building up our own projects, and making them as attractive as possible to users old and new, rather than knocking the other one? But my comment before sets the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Turn restrictions, maximum speeds, oneway streets, even the value of the highway tag is not a geographical fact. Sure they are. If I walk about 20 yards from my front door, there's a no entry sign at a certain lat/long. If I walk a bit further along, facing the other way,

[OSM-legal-talk] Remapping - tags and practice

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, As the licence change draws on, we will inevitably be looking at remapping objects touched by a decliner. I'm interested in how we (as users) tackle something like this: user A (agrees) surveys and maps user B (agrees) refines geometry and tags user C (agrees)

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: So I suspect it's potentially breaching copyright, and a matter of judgement as to whether it's worth the risk. For example, if you were copying in data from a commercial web site whose business model was based around that data (like a listing of pubs) you might get

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright issues of checking details on other websites

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Earl wrote: Even then, to infringe database copyright under UK law you would have to copy a substantial part of the database. Checking or obtaining a few names against such a list isn't database copyright infringement Oh, absolutely. The thing I've always been anxious about, though, is

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: So presumably we also need confirmation from Ordnance Survey that they're happy for their content to be distributed under DbCL (or at least under the ODbL+DbCL combination). I think that's a red herring, isn't it? ODbL imposes additional requirements over and

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: In the context of OSM, the fact that the contents will be under DbCL will enable users to make use insubstantial extracts without having to provide any attribution or share-alike or anything else. Again, as I said, insubstantial is statute law - both the EU

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-05 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: So if I understand what you're saying correctly, because there are already provisions in UK law (and possibly elsewhere) that allow you to make use of insubstantial parts of a work in any way you want without infringing any copyright or database rights, we

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData and ODbL OK

2011-07-04 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: I would like to thank the Ordnance Survey for their kind consideration and the speed in which they were able to give a response. ...and thank you, Mike and Henk, for taking this on. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in OpenDataLicense/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: We also have be mindful of the OSM guideline of substantial [1], which seems to indicate that only very small extracts counts as insubstantial. I think the thing about these guidelines is that they are meant to be Community Guidelines: here's what the OSM community expects

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-30 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Really I'm at a loss to see the point of the share-alike clause (4.4). I can't think of a use-case for OSM where processing the database doesn't reduce the amount of information. The canonical case, often cited by those who say OSM needs a share-alike licence, is to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If, on the other hand, out of the black box comes a derived database, then you can simply share *that* database and nobody cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right?

Re: [Talk-us] Relation roles

2011-06-29 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: I mentioned something about cardinal direction relation roles on IRC last night and I think it was RichardF thought they were silly because he had no concept of a north/south vs east/west highway. Probably not me, but you're right, and it's not a question we have to

Re: [OSM-talk] Multiple versions of same node in changeset

2011-06-26 Diskussionsfäden Richard Fairhurst
M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: Yes, but is there a point of doing this within the same changeset? Yes, of course there is. If you're using an online editor you should save early and save often. When the user chooses to start/finish a changeset has no bearing on that. cheers Richard -- View this

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