OSM Team AU,
Lets show some love...
New Wikipedia NearMap article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearMap
Article needs some expanding.
/ Grant
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2009/12/5 80n 80n...@gmail.com:
The OSM Foundation can't force anyone to relicense their existing data
For clarity... the OSM Foundation is not some evil group...
The OSMF is open, anyone from the community can join. The OSMF Board
is democratically elected from the OSMF membership.
OSMF Board:
2009/12/5 Liz ed...@billiau.net:
Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the proposed new licence.
It is designed around European law, and gives database protection which is
not a legal concept which is likely to apply here, after the recent High Court
case Nine vs IceTv, when the
But zoom levels six and lower are still showing marks that have been
removed for at least a day. They must be updated at some lower
frequency, which is understandable - I'm guessing there is some
clumping of many marks into one, or it would take forever to display
at these zooms.
The lower
On 26 May 2010 12:05, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote:
This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com
http://www.arcgis.com/home/
which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required)
that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was
On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data
from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention
new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving
data from Nearmap.
On 21 July 2010 05:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure how complete it is, but there is a list of data sets and
the licenses:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog
If there are any known entries missing, please add them.
LWG has put out a request for
On 23 July 2010 00:08, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog
*snip*
Grant
What's the lower limit for inclusion on this list? It says rather vaguely
more than a few hundred nodes.
80n
Those that imported the data, they make the decision. We have
On 9 August 2010 15:51, Markus marku...@bigpond.com wrote:
You are right,
That account was also only created 13 hours ago.
I just downloaded the changeset in JOSM and I will revert it shortly.
Not sure what to do with the user though.
Assume it was an innocent mistake, offer help. If it
On 9 August 2010 23:01, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 August 2010 07:54, 16 towal...@gmail.com wrote:
Just being evil-minded and petty; I wonder if this hint should be added
(discretely) to, say, the Australian Tagging Guidelines. Might as well
keep up the image of them
On 10 August 2010 11:26, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant pasted this from LWG minutes on IRC earlier today:
It wasn't well received. It would be overly restrictive for the
project. Who knows what we'll be doing in 10 years time?
Misquoted.
That is not for the LWG minutes.
On 12 August 2010 12:28, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems as though if someone ran a bot to add just one tag to most of the
streets in (say) Canberra and then failed to
agree to a re-licence, then all those streets in Canberra would be thrown
away in their entirety (or
On 12 August 2010 13:05, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok - just to clarify.
If I've edited a road then the bot does it's thing and then I make further
improvements,
the bots effect can be automatically removed without losing either of my
edits.
I don't know the details yet,
OSM AU,
Just a quick update...
The Licensing Working Group (LWG) is still in positive discussion with
NearMap. Unfortunately we have been unable to schedule a conference
call this week due to difficult scheduling (EDT, BST, CEST WST
timezones). We have a call scheduled for early next week.
The
On 15 September 2010 14:28, Michael Hampson mc.hamp...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone know if we have lost the use of NearMap as a background or is
there an issue with Potlatch 1.4?
Nearmap withdrew their support for the people using the new contributor
terms. The OpenStreetMap foundation is
On 15 September 2010 15:14, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Who was it prompted by? Did NearMap themselves request it?
There was a specific question from a AU community member to NearMap if
the option should be removed. They said yes. -- Third hand, I was not
part of the discussion.
On 15 September 2010 23:46, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 September 2010 08:38, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Sure. Aren't there AU gov't sources that would be nice to have
permission to use?
You keep seeming trying to divert attention from the major issue, the
On 22 November 2010 20:02, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
I find this quite offensive. Because I have discussed things and asked
questions, while indicating that I do not agree, I have been treated
extremely rudely on other OSM mailing lists, in particular by persons
in 'high
On 22 November 2010 20:13, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote:
If we get an agreeable licence for the main sources of non-survey data
(I'm including at least Nearmap and the Bureau of Statistics data in that -
what about Yahoo?) then this becomes a little more manageable.
Easiest first.
On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 November 2010 12:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
landuse, and at a stretch, bike paths etc. I guess John Smith will be
mapping out the boundaries of the coverage? Should be interesting.
There is no news
On 26 November 2010 10:32, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
That is funny, I hope we don't get into a forking of josm as well. OMG.
The osm trac is taking forever to load, how lame.
Luckily we are using github, which has real performance :
On 30 January 2011 00:21, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
So, what happens now? Has Frederik appointed himself as top-dog in the
JOSM project, above and beyond the maintainer?
Frederik was the JOSM project maintainer for a number of years before
he handed off to Dirk and others. He
On 16 February 2011 07:07, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 00:04 +, David Groom wrote:
I just want to draw attention to the survey at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WFVK6XS
, the link was mentionedn Richard Weait's email to this list on 1 Feb, but I
have to
On 12 March 2011 12:10, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote:
As no-one has answered this question yet, I thought I'd better re-ask the
question, as it will determine whether I can agree to the new terms or not.
On 23/02/2011, at 4:27 PM, Mark Pulley wrote:
Quoting Andrew Laughton
On 6 April 2011 10:51, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 19:31:53 +1000
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com didn't write: (Michael Collinson
did)
For clarity:
- This will only affect (77,000) contributors who registered before
May 2010 and who have not accepted
On 7 April 2011 00:37, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:09 +1000, Michael Hampson wrote:
So is Phase 4 the end for those that don't agree? What happens to the
data if we don't agree? and the data built on top of that data?
Well, it depends what you read.
On 7 April 2011 06:58, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 April 2011 12:57, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
If the Australian issue is so important, as others have suggested why
isnt OSMF seeking to make a rapid agreement with NearMap as was done
with Bing?
This really
On 7 April 2011 13:12, Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote:
Hi all,
Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but found the
wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources by license. If
you have a spare moment or two and know of any I've missed, please pop by
On 7 April 2011 12:07, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
I don't see a lolcat on that page, was it on another page?
Certainly the lolcat on the front page of the osm wiki makes me wonder
about the IQ of the page writers
I removed the lolcat from the decline page + translations... It
On 7 April 2011 13:51, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:12 +1000, Ashley Kyd wrote:
Hi all,
Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but
found the wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources
by license. If you have a
On 21 April 2011 05:05, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Completed.
Please check the area as I don't know what should be there.
This isn't the only large scale delete by new user within minutes of signing up.
Recent example in the UK: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7907122
On 25 April 2011 09:41, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com
wrote:
fosm.org looks pretty good with potlatch2. Just need a tile server or
to setup my own again - how does one get a big fat planet.osm?
entity out to
steal all our precious geodata ZOMG.
Humbly,
Grant Slater aka Firefishy
Not a pommy.
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On 26 April 2011 22:06, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
Bluntly,
CC-by-SA for geodata is fine here. It's good enough for our government,
it's good enough for us. (Au government now is using CC-by for data).
We believe in Share-Alike. Actually, we have been brought up to believe
in
On 27 April 2011 05:42, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:01 AM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Wait, why did the Australian government stop using CC-by-SA and move
to CC-by? I actually wasn't aware of this, maybe because CC-by-SA adds
On 17 May 2011 11:54, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems if you are on the wining side of an argument you end up
blocked, so I'm most likely going to start an aussie wiki and not care
about the official wiki
As suggested by the #osm irc channel, I think you have misspelt
On 18 May 2011 06:32, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 06:38, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
Set of rules made by one group, complaints handled by same group,
prosecution handled by same group, judgement made by same group,
punishment handled by same group.
On 18 May 2011 14:02, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own
wiki page, which I can no longer edit, after I left a note asking
people not to edit my
On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even
those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to
map data would potentially be pretty trivial.
Nearly 12 months since you raised this
On 15 June 2011 06:15, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across
tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating
above
On 19 June 2011 16:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 June 2011 00:55, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially
for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely
difficult
On 19 June 2011 22:20, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:12:25 +0100
Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
We have people subverting our CC-BY-SA license right now!!1! *zomg*
And they wouldn't be abusing our ODbL license in future.
Case: UN: http
On 21 June 2011 09:39, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
On 21 June 2011 05:46, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Hang on, here's Nearmap's statement: All such additions or edits
submitted to OSM prior to 17 June 2011 may be held and continue to be
used by OSM under
On 7 July 2011 15:09, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote:
FOSMs not going anywhere for some simple reasons.
The people running it are ineffective, the data will be incompatible when
OSM switches, fosm doesn't have any of the agreements to derive data from
aerial imagery. I could go on, but
On 11 July 2011 10:55, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can
upload to OSM.
We as a community can't verify this.
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html mentions nothing, all
we have is
On 11 July 2011 11:30, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
The traced data is a new work and therefore untainted by the Bing
license. (NearMap doesn't see using aerial imagery this way.)
The license
The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission
to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the
OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open
license, including ODbL, provided that
a) we provide primary attribution in a reasonable manner (
On 27 September 2011 12:09, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, Andrew.
I wonder if Grant received a similar answer but interpreted it in a
different way. Grant?
Hi 80n, yes the responses will be forthcoming. We are waiting on some
further clarifications. LWG also now only meet
On 27 September 2011 11:22, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
Below I quote the response from the data.gov.au team which I received:
OpenStreetMap (OSM) are utilising datasets made available from data.gov.au
under CC-BY 2.5 or CC-BY 3.0 only. They are required to attribute the
On 31 October 2011 11:18, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote:
Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
The answer from AGIMO (data.gov.au) will actually be irrelevant.
I was hoping that the original communications would make clear exactly
On 1 December 2011 13:48, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote:
On 01/12/11 22:34, Mark Pulley wrote:
User cc-cleaner? I've had a quick look at some of the changesets, and
they all seem to be just deleting things. I have a suspicion that the
things being deleted are by users who haven't
On 6 January 2012 04:57, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote:
Quoting Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 13:47, David Findlay
da...@woodypointcomms.com.au wrote:
Cloudmade has a noname map style:
On 20 February 2012 21:58, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILScatno=72657
Not sure if anyone would find this useful for non-nearmaped areas. Comes
with a $250 price tag (but CC-BY licensed) and a fair bit of work
On 11 March 2012 09:57, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
The positional accuracy seems to be excellent. I have already used the
imagery to add a few missing railway line sections in Western
Australia. It takes a little while to get used to the imagery being
grayscale. In JOSM I’ve found
Australian Decliners,
As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I
kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is
about to run out.
The strength of the project is mappers (bonus points to GPS mappers)
and other contributors. If you have decided to move
On 30 March 2012 21:43, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Australian Decliners,
As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I
kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time
Talk-AU,
I have updated the http://agri.openstreetmap.org/ imagery. JOSM and
Potlatch2 both imagery presets.
1) Fixed the black strip/blob issue at the overlap regions.
2) Improved the projection accuracy. (epsg:32749 to 32756)
3) Speed improvement. (Fixed double projection bug and needless
On 6 August 2012 12:18, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Grant!
The cloud cover is a shame. Regarding your comments on removing it, how
much overlap (therefore choice) is there of the source images? Would
this overlay (if any) mostly occur at the zone boundaries?
On 8 August 2012 02:14, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote:
On 7 August 2012 22:54, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
Currently the 7 zones are stacked left to right.
I quickly hacked up a right to left stack:
http://agri.openstreetmap.org/?layers=0B0
tms url is: http
On 23 August 2012 12:07, Sam Russell g.samuelruss...@gmail.com wrote:
Could someone have a look over CoolDude16501 's edits? The railway line
running under the Pacific Ocean looks suspect, and the user's response to an
email isn't heartening. As a new user myself, I'm not equipped to deal with
OSM Australia,
Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Australia now has a map
caching server located in Brisbane. The server is used to speed up the
standard tile.osm.org Mapnik map style.
Browsing the map on http://www.openstreetmap.org/ should now be more
responsive. This new server, named
Talk-au,
Seems a few weeks ago the OSM Australia extract size surpassed the
pre-redaction extract size.*
128MB -
http://download.geofabrik.de/openstreetmap/australia-oceania/australia.osm.pbf
vs
125MB -
http://download.geofabrik.de/osm-before-redaction/australia-oceania/australia.osm.pbf
*:
/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto
Big Thank you to #osm-dev for helping draft this announcement.
Kind regards
Grant Slater
Part of the OSM Sysadmin Team
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On 23 July 2013 15:08, David Clark dbcl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
Sorry I don't really understand this, how will this affect me and what I
see?
Hopefully you shouldn't see any difference. :-)
It is a large behind the scenes change on how we produce the default
map tiles (view) for
On 24 July 2013 10:45, David Clark dbcl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
Does that mean it will be easier (therefore more likely) to improve the
rendering of OpenCyclemap? That would be good.
This is unrelated to OpenCycleMap.
OpenCycleMap is a separate project by Andy Allan (gravitystorm)
/ Grant
On 5 August 2013 03:58, Hamish Campbell hamish.campb...@koordinates.com wrote:
HI Grant,
Wondering if this is related, there seem to be a few faulty tiles:
E.g.:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-46.080780029296875lon=167.288818359375zoom=10
Zoom in and out - the woodland cover is there,
Hi Ian,
The api.openstreetmap.org map data servers send no-cache headers and
proxy/caches should therefore NOT be caching the results...
But some ISPs are too aggressive with their caching.
Make sure JOSM is set to the default OSM server (there are 3rd party
caching API servers available):
JOSM
Hi Guys,
Happy to help diagnose this with someone. Does this effect anyone using JOSM?
Easiest way is to contact me in channel #osm-dev on irc: http://irc.osm.org/
Regards
Grant
Part of OSM sysadmin team
On 1 October 2013 05:56, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Potlatch2 or ID? If
Hi OSM Australia,
Anyone up for this?
The openstreetmapS.com domain is being held by Michael Gilmour of
parklogic.com for sale. He is based in Camberwell, Victoria,
Australia.
The domain was originally registered on behalf of OpenStreetMap in
2007 but was accidentally not renewed.
Would any
On 21 March 2014 00:48, Michael Gratton m...@vee.net wrote:
Whois reports the registrar is KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH
http://www.key-systems.net/, which appears to be a German registrar.
Yes, I contacted them a few months ago. Received a response, unlikely
to have much luck following that route.
I'll
On 20 March 2014 21:56, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote:
Grant, are you suggesting the domain is being held in a cyber squatting
mode ? That Michael is holding it with the intention of making a profit
from it ?
The domain is used to catch openstreetmap typos. Many newbies
Hi,
We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs
agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on
time and were not able to get it up and running again.
I will visit the data centre in a week to fix or replace the hardware.
Regards
Grant
Part of sysadmin team
On 6
Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 July 2014 15:30, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
We had a problem with the server (faffy) which runs
agri.openstreetmap.org, it no longer starts up, we were limited on
time and were not able to get it up and running again.
I
Hi Talk-AU,
I'm still working to fully restore the Australian Geographic Reference
Image (AGRI) site I run after the hardware failure...
AGRI? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Geographic_Reference_Image
I now have the tiles up and running again and they can be used in the
editors
Hi All,
I have 2 of these for RTK GNSS receivers: https://emlid.com/reachrs/
1 ReachRS unit becomes the RTK static "base" and you needs a very
accurate position measurement and good signal. To get the most
accurate measurement I use my base and connect it to another base
using an NTRIP network.
only thing I don’t have right now is a router that can handle the higher
> speed plan from my ISP that would be required.
>
> How urgently do you guys want something in place?
>
> Thanks Michael
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Grant Slater
> >
n, would this be a viable option?
>
> Thanks, John
>
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Grant Slater
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU,
>>
>> Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run
>> the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure.
Hi OpenStreetMap Talk-AU,
Quick Introduction: I am part of the volunteer Operations team who run
the OpenStreetMap.org infrastructure.
Our tile.openstreetmap.org CDN would greatly benefit from having a
cache server in Australia and/or New Zealand. It would make the
default rendered map on
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