Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] I thought OSM-F was changing the license...

2012-06-03 Thread James Andrewartha
On 3 June 2012 17:46, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So why is my data still in the main database? Their bot to remove it is still being written: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/rebuild/ ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-10 Thread James Andrewartha
are choosing to leave the community having seen their voices ignored. Arguably this is worse than how you started with organisations not giving you data, since it's people that change organisations. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-10 Thread James Andrewartha
in general. From their point of view, what does OSM offer them that they can't do with a PSMA license that they probably already have? James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
their data directly rather than letting even more agile citizens do it for them. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread James Andrewartha
happy with my country's laws, which don't include database right, and don't want to promote such a concept. What do you mean by throw everything away? Who is throwing what away? James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread James Andrewartha
. As of today, contributions to OSM are ODbL+CT only. Guess that's you gone, then. Bye. Ah, that welcoming OSM spirit. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-15 Thread James Andrewartha
to cover old contributions isn't allowed. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-14 Thread James Andrewartha
will be purged from the database in Phase 5. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] License change Phase 4 coming soon.

2011-06-14 Thread James Andrewartha
contributors who have declined CT/ODbL will not be able to edit. How many contributors have neither accepted nor declined the CT/ODbL? James Andrewartha. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-14 Thread James Andrewartha
On 15 June 2011 11:56, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 10:39 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: On 15 June 2011 09:36, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised

Re: [talk-au] Electoral boundaries...

2010-07-28 Thread James Andrewartha
trying to merge them into existing boundaries so they can be reimported later when they shift... Each state is done once every seven years, that doesn't seem overly frequent to me. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Electoral boundaries...

2010-07-28 Thread James Andrewartha
On 28 July 2010 16:35, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote: 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

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread James Andrewartha
On 9 June 2010 11:20, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Err, and just now I notice that when you press b in Potlatch, instead of creating source=nearmap, it creates a tag like http://www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy=!,!,!;. Wonder when this change happened, and is that a bug? It sure looks like

Re: [talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

2010-04-02 Thread James Andrewartha
On 1 April 2010 16:04, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Thought you might like to know that NearMap now have OSM data as opaque maps as well as transparent overlays on our PhotoMaps.  OSM data's in for the whole world (currently from the 17/2/10 planet file, now importing the 24/3/10

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap OSM data expanded

2010-03-25 Thread James Andrewartha
On 25 March 2010 16:11, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: In case you're interested, Nearmap are now serving OSM data for the whole world, rendered from the 17/02/10 dataset.  We also have the non-transparent map tiles, but haven't enhanced the map page to let you select those yet :)

Re: [talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

2010-03-22 Thread James Andrewartha
On 22 March 2010 15:38, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.44227lon=153.03687zoom=17layers=B000FTF Not sure why someone tagged all the railway lines like that... Like what, exactly? The tagging looks perfectly cromulent to me. James

Re: [talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

2010-03-22 Thread James Andrewartha
On 22 March 2010 16:52, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 March 2010 18:48, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: On 22 March 2010 15:38, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.44227lon=153.03687zoom=17layers=B000FTF

Re: [talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

2010-03-22 Thread James Andrewartha
On 22 March 2010 19:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 March 2010 21:21, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: That's what they're called, so yes. Called by whom? All I ever see published is things like North Shore Line etc... This is a railway yard

Re: [talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

2010-03-22 Thread James Andrewartha
On 22 March 2010 19:57, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: On 22 March 2010 19:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 March 2010 21:21, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: That's what they're called, so yes. Called by whom? All I ever see

Re: [talk-au] The funny things bored people get up to...

2010-03-22 Thread James Andrewartha
On 22 March 2010 20:15, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 March 2010 21:57, James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au wrote: This is a railway yard, the various lines are called Road #, eg http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Maps/Itlk/pavonia.gif Anything a little more

Re: [talk-au] Bus, tram and train stop data license change

2010-03-04 Thread James Andrewartha
ask them how much creativity/definable authorship was involved in creating the database - if there isn't any you could mention that it's not copyrightable anyway. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Default access restrictions

2010-01-06 Thread James Andrewartha
, arguably roads should be foot=no. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] MapOSMatic will now do any where...

2010-01-01 Thread James Andrewartha
? To be brutally honest, no one cares who you do or don't reply to. I do, as his decision will mean less of your spam on the list (of course now I'm guilty of this, but whatever). James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread James Andrewartha
? Here's an example, and while OSM projects are probably much better than Ubuntu at fixing bugs, the equation still holds: http://glyphobet.net/blog/blurb/1214 James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

2009-12-08 Thread James Andrewartha
can work around it by merging a node and a way, then deleting the superfluous node. I don't think you can merge two ways though. Ctrl-click in JOSM joins two ways. there are two other really good ones which are key combos and i use from the menu orthogonalise shape AOL / James Andrewartha

Re: [talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

2009-12-08 Thread James Andrewartha
2009/12/9 David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net: - Original Message - From: James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au I find Potlatch is better for from-scratch editing, but for editing existing data JOSM is as good. The modal thing is annoying, but when there's already ways you can

Re: [talk-au] replacement bicycle mounted gps

2009-11-18 Thread James Andrewartha
calls :) So who has a whizbang phone which they would recommend?? The most open phone is the Nokia N900 - root is easy to get, and it's most similar to a desktop Linux. Unfortunately Nokia decided not to sell it in Australia, so you'd have to import it from the US. James Andrewartha

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-04 Thread James Andrewartha
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/11/4 James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au: I couldn't say, but they might do it once for free (vs the regular updates planned for cities). For example, the WA coverage currently goes from Do you work for this company, or have a contact

Re: [talk-au] http://maposmatic.org/

2009-09-24 Thread James Andrewartha
It's Python using Django and PostGIS (a PostgreSQL addon). http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic/ocitysmap.git/tree/ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/maposmatic.git/tree/ as linked off http://maposmatic.org/about/ James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Fixed map image for city wiki page?

2009-09-22 Thread James Andrewartha
=Australia|image=Image:Sydney0708.png|lat=-33.8626|long=151.209|zoom=11}} James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread James Andrewartha
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 11:46 +1100, Franc Carter wrote: Hi all, The upload has completed (much faster running from dev). Are the suburbs rendered, or do they only show up in an editor like JOSM? James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-07 Thread James Andrewartha
these datasets, but they don't really account for OSM usage, so ministerial pressure might have to be sought. James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

2008-09-11 Thread James Andrewartha
of getting names from street view? James Andrewartha ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au