[talk-au] Last few days: State of the Map 2016 Call for Venues

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, The Call for Venues to host State of the Map 2016 is open for a few more days. Do you wish that your town / region could host State of the Map? It isn't too late. Get a team of locals together and assemble a bid. Have a look at the example bids, and the bids submitted so far.

[talk-au] Call for Venues Open: State of the Map 2016

2015-03-10 Thread Richard Weait
The Call for Venues for State of the Map 2016 is now open. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016/Call_for_venues Build a team for your city and bid to host the OpenStreetMap conference. ___ Talk-au mailing list

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] OSM country interviews

2014-10-25 Thread Richard Weait
Would an Australian mapper like to speak about the State of the (Australian) Map, with Ed? -- Forwarded message -- From: Ed Freyfogle e...@lokku.com Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] OSM country interviews To: osmf-t...@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services will be down

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Weait
see attached notice of scheduled maintenance. Thank you, sysadmins, for your endless efforts on our behalf. -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:22 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Upcoming Maintenance - Some services

[talk-au] proposed import maxspeed reports from fleet managers.

2014-05-07 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, I started a discussion recently about a proposed import. The data is provided by the managers of vehicle fleets. Turns out that some of the data is coming from Australia and the rest of the world. I thought initially that the data was limited to North America.

[talk-au] Data Quality for addresses

2014-04-12 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, Geofabrik has extended their address inspector layer to cover the whole world. Previously, this data quality layer was only available in Europe. It highlights potential errors in addressing, of inspection (and repair ?) by mappers. Have a look!

Re: [talk-au] Disconnected ways, almost connected nodes and crossing ways - user goldfishxyz

2013-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
If a new user is repeating errors, after your friendly contact, consider passing the information along to the data working group. They, as ad mins, can block an account until they read a message. But, yes, the approach of contacting them first, with friendly correction, is the way to go.

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference)

2013-04-23 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:36 PM Subject: [OSM-dev] Call for Presentations - SotM 2013 (annual conference) To: Talk-GB talk...@openstreetmap.org, OpenStreetMap t...@openstreetmap.org, d...@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:41 AM, David dban...@internode.on.net wrote: I think it might be a mistake to suggest that we don't get to have a say in how (eg) the main osm map is rendered just because we can personally render our own. Firstly, setting up to do that rendering is not trivial, nor

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.comwrote: Richard wrote Take a shot at creating rendering rules that fit your use case! :-) I'm with John on this one - especially for the case of Australia. Maybe we need a special renderer for Australia. Just

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: Hi, some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on; changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241 I've emailed to the editor to ask the source for the change as I believe some are now

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: Absolutely. When I'm planning a trip, I like to look at OSM maps online. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a few towns (obvious from the network of streets), but not a town name to be seen. Sure, I can zoom

Re: [talk-au] Lots of amenities ?

2012-10-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:10 AM, dban...@internode.on.net wrote: Thanks Ben, but maybe I'm a bit slow today ? If there are multiple nodes all on (about) the same spot, then the rendering engines show only one. I guess its the 'top' one. If they are just a bit further apart, then you might

Re: [talk-au] Present for keen OSMer

2012-10-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: It irritates me the OSMF doesn't have a shop that sells merchandise. If marketed properly, it can be another means of financial support for the project. It would need a volunteer(s) to run it. With all of those lovely

Re: [talk-au] Blocks of land - residential housing

2012-09-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Leathal leatha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I was just wondering what the tagging standard is for residential housing in suburbs? I can't find anything definitive, and most of the common methods such as landuse=residential is set aside for large scale areas (which

Re: [talk-au] Getting is right

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Brett Russell brussell...@live.com.au wrote: Hi Looks good. I might just manage not to resort to chewing my own arm off to survive. [ ... ] Individual OSM contributors have approached dozens (or perhaps hundreds, now) of governments from tiny to big and

[talk-au] Change to ODbL imminent

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Weait
As just posted to blog.osmfoundation.org Please translate and propagate to all of our communities. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/09/11/change-to-odbl-imminent/ Hello OpenStreetMap-pers, The change to ODbL is imminent. No, Really. We mean it. At long last we are at the end of the

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Australian copyright law recognises that copyright can subsist in compilation of facts. Once copyright subsists, the only test is substantial

Re: [talk-au] Getting is right

2012-09-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/09/2012, at 2:45 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Individual OSM contributors have approached dozens (or perhaps hundreds, now) of governments from tiny to big and found success. They've also found some regressive

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-09 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Charles Gregory osm.li...@chuq.net wrote: Just to play devil's advocate: What if someone used Google Street View? Don't. :-) Firstly, It's copying. We as a community have decided that we don't copy from maps and other sources for which we don't have

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] IMHO, it's perfectly valid to consult other maps (Bing, Google Maps, Melway, whatever) for street names, I disagree in the strongest possible terms. It is not perfectly valid to use those resources for

[talk-au] OpenStreetMap birthday celebrations

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Weait
Dear All, It is that time again. OpenStreetMap turns eight years old in just a few days. Join the celebration by getting together with other mappers at one of the planned celebrations, or plan one in your town! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_8th_Anniversary_Birthday_party

Re: [talk-au] Great checking/fixing progress

2012-08-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: The Sydney-Newcastle coastal corridor is now 100% done! It's particularly great to see the inner Newcastle area bounce back - this region was anhialated by the redaction. There is a potential problem with that task. I'm

[talk-au] Brisbane bus stop density

2012-07-29 Thread Richard Weait
I see a cluster of bus stops in an area that looks unusual. Would a Brisbane local have a look when they get a chance? Not an emergency, obviously. They've been there since 2009. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.403455lon=152.943559zoom=18layers=M

[talk-au] mapping Sydney, etc with Tasking Server

2012-07-28 Thread Richard Weait
The tasking server allows mappers to select an area to map. Others can see which areas have been mapped and which have not. The goal being increased coordination and reduced duplication. There are several mapping tasks currently, including Sydney, kindly hosted by Simon Poole.

Re: [talk-au] How to find missing bits?

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Now that the CLEANMAP/BADMAP server has been disabled, what's a good way to find missing bits? Are there any sites that compare pre- and post- redaction? As announced on dev@

Re: [talk-au] History (Was: Re: [OpenStreetMap] Re: Hume and Hovell route)

2012-07-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: [re: mapping historic objects that are no longer present] No question about it, the fourth dimension introduces a lot of complexities. Sadly, I don't have a lot of faith in the OSM community to come up with a sensible

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] Re: Hume and Hovell route

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Weait
Hi Mark, You can sign up for the tagging list via this link. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging The historical maps aspect of your interest is held by many others for various eras. That is still an unsolved problem in OSM, so join in with others interested in finding a solution.

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: No!  Wrong! I've never actually declined at all. I have just never accepted the new CT's. I didn't decline because I wasn't asked. From my point of view, there wasn't any communication directly with the mappers. [ ...

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: I'm not taking out any resentment on anybody. I'm simply choosing not to participate. So don't say that I'm hurting anybody.. I'm quite happy for any of my data to remain. If someone else chooses to delete it, blame

Re: [talk-au] Plea to Australian decliners

2012-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Jack Burton j...@saosce.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 15:54 +0100, Grant Slater 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 is about to

[talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10338587 There were no maxspeed:source or source:maxspeed tags on these objects so it is possible that I have removed data that was carefully

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2012 13:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10338587 Hi

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:43 AM, El Segundo Can't win el_segundo_cant_...@yahoo.com.au wrote: I deleted a few locality boundaries in my local area, because they were irritating me and getting in the way of re-mapping all the tainted ways and nodes. I thought I would rebuild them using actual

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: I must be missing something here, I thought the whole point of the licence change was to allow commercial companies to take advantage of the communities data. Specifically Microsoft Bing. [from a reply I

Re: [talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Sam Wilson s...@archives.org.au wrote: Thanks Richard and Steve for your ideas.  I've started using the licence check plugin... and now getting disheartened at the extent of the non-agreeing data!  :-( Ah well.  I rather want to keep mapping, and not wait

Re: [talk-au] Thoughts on co-ordinating re-mapping

2011-12-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:17 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote: On 02/12/2011 04:47, El Segundo Can't win wrote: There are two types of re-mapping - on the ground re-mapping, and desktop re-mapping. There's also arguably a third - re-adding edits lost as a result of removal

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:48 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I saw the same relationship with Firefishy (from South Africa) and went to bed puzzling about the coincidence.  Firefishy was adding in a little data within minutes of cc-cleaner's massive deletes. I woke up a couple of

Re: [talk-au] A way to go and missing towns

2011-12-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:09 PM, El Segundo Can't win el_segundo_cant_...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Late to the conversation but.. First up, from people have said, what cc-cleaner is doing is shocking vandalism, whether they intend it or not. I'm disappointed by deletions without remapping. One

Re: [talk-au] Maxspeed bots

2011-12-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Richard, I don't believe that it is possible to start remapping in Australia until the maxspeed bots are removed (from the database and also all histories) without affecting any other edits to those ways. Or

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ben Johnson tangarar...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Recently I read a suggestion for zoom hinting tags to assist / override renderers in deciding whether certain elements should be visible at certain zoom levels.  Adopting an assisted rendering approach to hide

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

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: This is different to what I thought is was. Could someone please remind me why Nearmap and Google maps do not want us to trace their aerial views ? That they don't want us to trace from their images is enough.

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

2011-11-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com wrote: Also if I agree to the new license, is there an easy way to delete all my Yahoo aerial tracing, or is this now allowed ? Why would you want to remove that data? I do not want to, but this is the reason I

Re: [talk-au] Map projections

2011-11-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: And for something a bit more light hearted: What your favourite map projection says about you : http://xkcd.com/977 I think there is a video where each social network is a guest at a party. Perhaps we could do that with

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

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: 80n you are not a member of the Australian community. You are here to cause trouble and discontent within the Australian community along with your forking friends Dear Grant, Please continue to offer 80n the

[talk-au] Taking yes for an answer.

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
Let us bring back our presumption of good faith, shall we? Several posters here have suggested that data.gov.au don't know what permissions they have and what permissions they may grant. Another has suggested that data.gov.au would be likely to pay attention to every last detail of paperwork,

[talk-au] Other imports in AU

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
Would AU contributors please have a look at the Import Catalogue[1]. There are still some imports listed for Australia with incomplete details. It would be good to have those details completed. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue

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

2011-10-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:19:56 -0400 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution#Australian_government_public_information_datasets and responded as follows: That is terrific – thank you

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

2011-10-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: As we are trying to tell you, AGIMO, who owns the data.gov.au domain, does not grant any copyright permissions whatsoever. They are a place which consolidates data and makes it available, but the actual government department or

Re: [talk-au] Keep Right

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Peter Watson peter.bmwk7...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else having problems using Keep Right. The pop up box that has all the info for the error is not working. I have tried the Asia version and it works but the Aust version isn't. Will OSM Inspector help you

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

2011-09-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: [regarding a relation with gaps] I have surveyed, it is removed from the relation, and consequently the relation has a gap. My understanding is for this relation type - a route - gaps are not allowed.  After all, this

Re: [talk-au] Irony...

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: Is it just me, or is there a certain amount of irony in Nearmap not allowing OSM to use their aerials to trace from, but being quite happy to use OSM as their street layer? (Don't get me wrong - I think Nearmap have a

[talk-au] talk-au moderation

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
Hi talk-au, In an effort to cool some heads this list will be on full moderation for a bit. This is not an ideal way to run a mailing list for an open project and it is unlikely to be a permanent change. For the next while[1], all posts will have to be explicitly released by a moderator to get

Re: [talk-au] talk-au moderation

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
... There is also a large backlog of messages held for moderation (spam, fishing and non-subscribed), I'm going through that now. Apologies if I take a while to get to your messages. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Weait
JohnSmith your four changesets today are missing descriptive changeset comments. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JohnSmith/edits The barrier here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8480159 does not advise of the source you used. The connected way claims yahoo as source, but that

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

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
Just announced on legal-talk is that Phase 4[1] of the license change process is scheduled for this Sunday, 19 June 2011. During Phase 4, only contributors who have accepted CT/ODbL will be able to edit. That is, the 406 contributors who have declined CT/ODbL will not be able to edit. I

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

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM. Dear Ben, Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's

Re: [talk-au] nearmap LWG minutes

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit late to the game but the one of the LWG minutes talks about nearmap... It isn't apparent from the link, but for the information of those reading them here without checking the original document, the

Re: [talk-au] How many NearMap users do you think have accepted the new CTs and ODbL?

2011-04-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:24 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I was wondering this question tonight. [ ... ] This only shows where there is clear evidence of licence violations without having to look past the data's tags. [ ... ] Food for thought Junk food at best. ;-) OSM

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Time to go read the CTs again... Hi James, That's one of the sections of v1 that has been clarified in v1.2.4. Have a look. http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: There are around 12,000 accounts which have prior to May 2010 contributed 95%+ of all the data. Regards  Grant Also how many of these are actual people not import accounts eg ABS2006? I don't know, I haven't tried to

[talk-au] CHCH earthquake response update.

2011-02-23 Thread Richard Weait
From: Chad Catacchio chadcatacc...@gmail.com Date: 23 February, 2011 0:52:54 EST To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisCommons] CrisisCampNZ status update and needs Reply-To: crisiscomm...@googlegroups.com All, Wanted to pass on updates from the volunteers in New Zealand

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:34 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: [ ... ] I presume that some time in the next 7 weeks (ie before 31 March 2011) it might be made more apparent what will happen, since in order for an ODbL complaint database to be available on 1 April I trust that

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Alex Lum sierra.os...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, we should be mapping what's on-the-ground anyway, i.e. the station signage (unless this signage is contradictory in which case it may

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, John Berkers be...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I'm relatively new to OSM, but thought that I would weigh into the debate. Hi John, Welcome! And great local background. Thank you. Lastly, the original request was for advice on how to handle the situation with the

[talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
There have been previous discussions regarding per changeset relicensing. I'd like to know if developing the tools to allow per changeset relicensing is worthwhile. There will be some effort involved in the coding, so it would be good to know in advance if this option will be used by many or few

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I think what they have a problem with is that its so open-ended, like we just have to trust the OSMF because they'll do no wrong.  Hang on a second, this is sounding vaguely like some heated discussions from a few

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I think what they have a problem with is that its so open-ended, like we just have to trust the OSMF because they'll do no wrong.  Hang on a second

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:51 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I was sent a link to this thread on the JOSM dev mailing list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2011-January/005185.html The jist is some people are pushing to put URL filtering into JOSM, currently

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:21 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 23:51 +1000, John Smith wrote: Thankfully the main author of the software seems to want a more general editor, not just one that works with OSM specific APIs etc. This makes me wonder.  Dirk has

Re: [talk-au] JOSM filtering image/map tile URLs

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 January 2011 02:26, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You aren't addressing the core question.  Given that the new imagery plugin has made it much simpler to accidentally infringe, is a URL blacklist

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:02 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how useful it'd be in Australia, but the massive floods all over Australia, except for the bush fires near Perth of course, might do well to map a lot of effected areas from Bing where coverage exists. and

[talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been working on better highway shield rendering in Canada and the US for a while. I added a few Australian shields today. My rendering of shields relies on the network tag as documented http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes and

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced with the country and if needed, the state / province.  I've added the AU_ prefix

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
| N | - | George James (Etienne) Y | Y | Y | - | Michael Collinson Y | Y | Y |- | Mikel Maron Y | - | - | - | Richard Fairhurst Y | - | - | - | Corey Burger - | Y | N | - | Nick Black - | Y | Y |- | Henk Hoff - | N | - | - | Grant Slater - | N | Y |- | Simone Cortesi - | N | - | - | Richard

Re: [talk-au] JOSM Preset

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: [ ... ]  Do the various working groups publish their own minutes or decisions, or do we just find out what they decide after the changes have taken place, such as the JOSM/Nearmap issue recently? I'm unaware of any

Re: [talk-au] OSMF elections

2010-11-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 08:30 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:48 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: [ ... ] Thanks for the explanation, someone else provided the simple two-year

Re: [talk-au] Looks like Nearmap is gone from JOSM slippymap plugin

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean talks with Nearmap has failed to come to an amicable arrangement? From http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-au@openstreetmap.org/msg06524.html Where, Ben Last said: I asked Richard F to remove NearMap

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:18 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:13 +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: I would think the better solution is to have the attribution simplified like Google Maps does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says Copyright PSMA, MapQuest

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: license change map

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:34 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 22:50 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: But I also haven't yet seen any reasons, other than sheer bloody mindedness, why a person who was happy to contribute under a CC-BY-SA licence would be unhappy

Re: [talk-au] CT / ODbL approval by changeset.

2010-11-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:34 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Richard Weait rich...@weait.com The intent is to allow those with concerns about some of their data to mark it, and accept the terms for the data they are confident in. One

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Weait
Those interested can find the first post and the complete thread starting here. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-November/054799.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4274375 Rosscoe surveyed the streets of Marree, and there are no street signs at all. From the comfort of his German home, staehler has determined the street names, adding in

Re: [talk-au] Port Hacking (Bay v. Water)

2010-10-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like this has been done again http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6132651 The whole closed way bays that I added have been deleted. I consider this is vandalism, I think that you would be wrong.

Re: [talk-au] Port Hacking (Bay v. Water)

2010-10-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 October 2010 10:01, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: So effectivly in my view swanilli has deleated the bays I originally [ ... ] Clearly done the wrong thing, IMO. I think there is still room to

[talk-au] Nestoria and OSM

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
Nestoria have launched an OSM option in Australia. http://blog.nestoria.com.au/big-thank-you ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 00:37, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I believe John Smith initially suggested it to NearMap. Ben Last at NearMap No, I posted the question publicly to the legal talk list, my

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Luke Woolley lswool...@gmail.com wrote: Bloody Hell. They have even blocked the custom field. I have a lot of choice words to say right now but shall refrain until I calm down! All over a bloody licencing dispute (which I don't like getting involved in unless

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:59 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 03:48, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Legal argument aside.  Frankly it makes my head hurt.  If a vendor decides to stop allowing OSM use of their resources, we should say Thanks for what

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 04:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: bad.  This isn't a competition with a winner and loser.  The fact is that NearMap don't want OSM users using their imagery right now.  So we shouldn't

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 07:31, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I don't think that your recommendation is in the best interest of OpenStreetMap or OSM contributors. Actually how can you or anyone else make

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:05 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 07:58, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You overlook the obvious, that discussion can lead to additional rights grants from publishers. And how many years must we wait before they'll

Re: [talk-au] NearMap

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:20 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 08:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: It will take forever if you never start the discussion.  ;-) I was under the impression the LWG was already talking to Nearmap, Sure. Aren't

[talk-au] Tutorials and Project of the Week

2010-09-14 Thread Richard Weait
Hi all, I'd like feedback on some recent tutorials for OSM Beginners and on some potential refinements for the Project of the Week. Please consider reading the new article, then replying to the three new poll questions. Comments welcome. http://weait.com/ Best regards, Richard

[talk-au] Fwd: NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance

2010-08-20 Thread Richard Weait
-- Forwarded message -- Subject: [OSM-talk] NOTICE: Scheduled Maintenance - Tuesday Morning OSM, Please copy this to local lists as appropriate. Tuesday 8:00am (24 August 2010 GMT/UTC+0) the API and editing on www.openstreetmap.org will be unavailable during a hardware upgrade.

Re: [talk-au] What's going on here? (mysterious street)

2010-08-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,  For my own education, could someone attempt to guess what's going on here: Specifically, Ward Rd. I see no trace of it on NearMap and I couldn't find it when I rode through there the other night. Well, ok,

Re: [talk-au] OSM maps used on kids tv show...

2010-08-15 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Newish TV show, K-9, which seems to be a kids spin off from the K-9 dog that used to be on Doctor Who a couple of decades ago, in any case a map flashed up and I instantly recognised it as OSM map tiles... You can

[talk-au] Edits vs edits

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:55 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 August 2010 22:22, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Sorry, my abuse reply was to the hypothetical question. But the un-winding of edits still stands. What about abusive edits that tweak the

[talk-au] License Upgrade - Stage Two Begins

2010-08-12 Thread Richard Weait
News today from Mike Collinson, Chair of the OSMF License Working Group: As promised, and long awaited, the next phase of the OSM License Upgrade has arrived. Phase 2 - Existing Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing [1] has begun, and you may indicate your acceptance of the new Contributor Terms

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