[talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread morb . gis
Hi everyone, As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one that wants to see it happen. If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as part of the Samford Mapping Party

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 morb@beagle.com.au: Hi everyone, As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one that wants to see it happen. If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as part of the Samford Mapping Party

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread James Livingston
On 16/01/2010, at 9:32 AM, John Smith wrote: This seems like a spurious argument, ok your suggestion will allow both projects to profit from your data, but any additions can't be shared back with your suggested project, nor will Google share any of it's data back, unless it's in Google's own

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: It's all a matter of tradeoffs and what is most important to you - being able to use it for whatever you want, or getting the most data in OSM. Well said. Funny thing is, they're not independent - i.e. making OSM data

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:16 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: It's all a matter of tradeoffs and what is most important to you - being able to use it for whatever you want, or getting the most data in OSM. Well said. Funny thing is,

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If we can get people making editors to add tags to changesets based on your license preference then any PD data, even if it's changed later to become ODBL, can be collected. ... the changeset might be good enough, as

Re: [talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

2010-01-15 Thread John Smith
2010/1/16 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: Interesting. But the catch is, as you say, only what is edited from existing PD data. And if you have different mappers using different If that's too much of a limitation then more drastic action would be needed, nothing will please everyone all the