Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 July 2010 08:58, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, a simpler method: - navigate to town on openstreetmap.org - select noname from the + menu on the right Some people complained that the cloudmade noname layer can be horribly out of date, basically they cache a tile and don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 23:00, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: an amicable arrangement. I am not suggesting backmail! After all, the whole point of PD is that people can do what they want with the data. I fail to see how you can force people to dual license as PD, since you even acknowledge

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:41, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am happy that OSMF have added the PD option to the relicensing question, and I will try to convince as many mappers as possible to tick it. It makes no difference for the legal side of implementing ODbL but I hope that the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 20:31, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Is it totally hopeless to contact these contributors and ask them for their agreement? It kind of rubs me the wrong way when anyone brings up problems and the first response (and usually the only one) is to always fob off the work

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 21:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: but they haven't commented about the contributor terms, I sent them an email about this but I'm waiting to hear back. If they balk at either that would mean everything mapped from their imagery, which in several rural

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
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. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 21:43, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Is this an issue with the third (licensing/relicensing/sublicensing) clause? I never fully agreed with it in the first place. Yup, the license could be changed to a non-share alike license in future, and some people are trying to push

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:19, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: This also shows that simply asking if contributors will allow their contributions to come under the ODbL is not enough. I imagine many have That may be ok, but the CTs go a step further and have future licenses as being fairly open

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Why? Because the project is growing very fast and attracting more data all the time. If Google or Nearmap don't want to play ball that's fine - just look at the hundreds of other companies and organisations that do, like Bing and

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:36, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: It's similar to those people saying that we should do whatever Google says we should do, so they can just use our data. Since you're bringing up Google, what about Yahoo, any official word from them on ODBL or the new CTs?

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:54, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: John, you're painting a dystopian view based on a couple of key things - that 1) nearmap would never change their mind and 2) the 'same thing' could happen at any point. The email I received from their CEO was fairly definite about the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:02, Sami Dalouche sko...@free.fr wrote: If the move is for pure theoretical, GNU/Stallman-like ideology, then it is likely to create way more damage than it would save. However, if the move is about saving the project from a legal perspective, then it's probably better to

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 03:56, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: We had this discussion years ago now and they were fine with it. As with everything else, they weren't allowed by legal to say anything publicly and were just waiting for the actual changeover. That covers current licenses, what about

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:08, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Do you think nearmap are being reasonable? I don't think they are. Why are we changing to another share alike license if this isn't reasonable? I fail to see the logic here. There are a variety of downsides with working with open

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:11, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second think it would be

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to produced works - that would encourage companies to give back. Judging by a same straw poll, very few people cared about SA extending to produced works, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Only if a later license change were to go non-SA. An hypothetical situation that you have created. I'm not the only one, since some people are already proposing to push a change to CC0 after the CTs are agreed to.

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:17, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Only if a later license change were to go non-SA. An hypothetical situation that you have created. I'm not the only one, since some people are already proposing

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 05:37, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You are creating yet another theoretical situation, John. Suddenly, in your perspective, the community is clamouring for the next license change and the next license change after that? I don't see it happening. If you are going

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:18, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: On 18/07/10 19:39, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 04:30, TimSCmapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Also, if we really cared about share-alike, we would have it apply to produced works - that would encourage companies

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:27, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: I know you like to have personal flame war, but in nutshell ODBL is share alike, so no problems here. I have two questions though: 1) Why we need CT in first place 2) What section 3 is about

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 06:44, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: So, problem is, while ODBL is fine as SA license (for data that is), CT requires to give OSMF rights to republish data under license which so far by CT can be also non-share-alike, right? The CT is also likely to conflict with

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 07:59, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Okay - you're saying that nearmap's concern is attribution? Surprisingly no, they don't require attribution, which is weird in and of itself, but do require any derived map data to be made available under a share alike license, so that they

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 09:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I don't recall seeing the nice folks from NearMap posting on this thread. I do recall an assertion from another poster that NearMap is firm on the map data being Share-Alike, as is will be under ODbL. But no quotations attributed

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 July 2010 12:35, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely stay-at-home sons (and daughters?), are less equal than others. Perhaps this should

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike license, while the ODBL may be compatible, the new Contributor Terms (CTs) aren't so on top of all the cc-by data going bye bye, all the

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
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. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:10, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: 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

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:19, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 12:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike

Re: [talk-au] Lake Illawarra

2010-07-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 23:29, Ken Bosward kbosw...@bosward.net wrote: I'm wondering how to fix up Lake Illawarra? Does it need to be fixed, or does pre-processing software need to be fixed? Should it be the case that the coastline tag should only be on the actual coast (and should also be used to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 10:27, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: I’m probably missing something again… Please explain how you will not be able to make an informed decision once the license question has been put to contributors. I will, but at that point I will no longer have any chances to exercise

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 18:34, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: I saw anywhere in the deeps of discussion at legal, that also the new licence does not protect data in australia ...? Mmmmh ... No, someone was claiming cc-by licenses we're valid in Australia, as a reason to change to ODBL, if that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 20:11, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences what would they apply to in the OSM database in Australia? The court case in question was over facts, dates and times and show names, IceTV who instigated this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong interpretation as to the scope.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 22:04, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 00:53, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: There has been discussion in the past about how creative the various levels of OSM are (my personal opinion is raw data:not, edited and combined ways:possibly, rendered maps:definitely). The outcome wasn't to rely on creativity. ;-)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 06:23, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:13 PM, 80n wrote: What's your source for the assertion that we shouldn't rely on creativity? I didn't assert that we *shouldn't*. You implied one or more people made that claim, what was their reasoning for this?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 15:18, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: On 15/07/10 14:34, John Smith wrote: How many governments can change a constitution without less than 50% voting, Of the people? The US and the EU, to name but two. When did EU member nations agree to become a country

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 13:07, Michael Barabanov michael.baraba...@gmail.com wrote: Consider two cases: 1. Current license does not cover the OSM data (I think that's the OSMF view). In this case, OSMF can just change to ODBL without asking anyone. 2. Current license does cover the OSM data. Then

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 18:34, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: I saw anywhere in the deeps of discussion at legal, that also the new licence does not protect data in australia ...? Mmmmh ... No, someone was claiming cc-by licenses we're valid in Australia, as a reason to change to ODBL, if that

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong interpretation as to the scope.

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 22:04, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong

Re: [OSM-talk] Murray River Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 09:49, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: The original Murray River trace was either made by swampwallaby using vmap or by a few of us tracing from Landsat. The only surveyed points then would have been bridges and bridge piers. Ross' problem was that the Murray River is using ABS

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] Murray River Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 12:10, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: The admin boundaries don't get moved with road/railway realignment and therefore without change from the original source we should not be moving them. So if they are not connected to railways/roads etc then errors will not be

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] Murray River Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 09:49, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: The original Murray River trace was either made by swampwallaby using vmap or by a few of us tracing from Landsat. The only surveyed points then would have been bridges and bridge piers. Ross' problem was that the Murray River is using ABS

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] Murray River Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 12:10, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: The admin boundaries don't get moved with road/railway realignment and therefore without change from the original source we should not be moving them. So if they are not connected to railways/roads etc then errors will not be

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] Murray River Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 July 2010 12:33, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: always, but this is the exception and without reading a ton of legal precedents. and without reading a ton of legal precedents and other documentation on boundaries we'd only be left guessing, or doing what we do now, leaving

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 19:57, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, this is ridiculous. Of course I've agreed to CC-BY-SA. The ODbL didn't even exist when I joined OSM - and you know that fine and well Etienne, you were there too when there was only 3 of us mapping in SW London. So it's a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 20:23, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: No, he was making the point that CC-BY-SA has 100% support amongst all the contributors, since we all agreed to it, and is using that to suggest that nobody wants to relicense and that anyone who does needs to fork the project.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 20:39, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I wouldn't exactly say I am unhappy with the status quo. It's like living in a house where experts say it is going to fall apart any minute - you might like to be able to retain the status quo but it's not on the menu. The status

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 02:44, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: In Australia, there was an important decision last year in the High Court involving TV schedules: http://www.copyright.org.au/news/news_items/cases-news/2009-cases/u29768/ I've been told that Telstra (white/yellow pages owner among

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 04:07, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Did you think there would be no losers? The project can’t please everyone. If you care that much, why not campaign with reasons against the license change, and encourage lots of OSMers to disagree with it. If you’re lucky you might

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Upgrading to future ODbL version

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 04:58, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Is that a desired safeguard against OKFN releasing bad new license versions, or is it an oversight? That clause most likely makes cc-by data incompatible, since a free and open license may not require attribution, regardless if you

Re: [OSM-talk] Shared nodes between non-routable objects?

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 July 2010 14:59, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: As John Smith has pointed out, actually finding out the real status of the boundary could be a lot of work, but it would be valuable. I also said no one wants to spend the time and effort

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 16:29, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: While Nearmap for Tamworth and Armidale would be nice, surveyors have been hard at work in both. Aerial imagery can do things like landuse, not just roads, which is a lot harder to get or even see from ground level...

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

2010-07-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 20:31, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: If you want to make requests, http://forum.Nearmap.com/ :) I did some time ago :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 15 July 2010 18:55, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: OSM has a clear mandate for the change. A majority (more than half) of the electorate voted, and a clear majority of the votes were for the change. Less than 49% of those eligible to vote, voted for the change, I don't see this as a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 01:05, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: On this logic, almost no government in the world has a mandate to do anything. How many governments can change a constitution without less than 50% voting, that's essentially what we're talking about here, not just whether to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 01:15, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: OK, let's say we do what you say. I define my limits, you define your limits, every single member of the LWG defines theirs, lots of other contributors do too. We now have a big pile of limits. I've also come to the conclusion

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 07:13, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: The correct way to make any significant and contentious change to a project is to fork it. Significant changes that are not universally supported will I'm not sure this would be doable, to do that you'd need twice the amount of resources

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 09:26, TimSC mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: My dream scenario is OSMF polls contributors with unbiased supporting documentation, they abide by the result and then I work a PD fork (different people and areas have different licensing situations). I might even license my

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 15 July 2010 20:28, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: How all that will work in practice, I don't know. That's the point, no one can know at this point, and if people are afraid to vote for odbl because of this things are likely to be a lot worst off.

[talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
Thanks to Lakeyboy for pointing out Nearmap planned coverage areas PDF: http://www.nearmap.com/assets/pdf/coverage/NearMap-PhotoMap-Coverage.pdf ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap coverage plan

2010-07-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 July 2010 15:35, Babstar babsta...@gmail.com wrote: While we're on the requests, please an an extension from Mittagong west If we're on to requests :) I'd still like Tamworth, NSW the area has 55k+ people according to wikipedia, and Armidale, NSW isn't far away with another 20k+ people...

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 14 July 2010 19:25, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: However, I'd be interested in hearing what you think. Could you put some numbers on what would make you feel comfortable? I've tried such an exercise myself (and came to the same conclusions as the LWG in the end) but that doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 14 July 2010 17:59, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: A lot of the points in this thread was already discussed by others and me around 2009. The whole license (change) discussion in 2009 (to my understanding) boiled down to: Become member of the OSMF or shut up and follow our

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 14 July 2010 19:08, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: See also http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes if you are interested in seeing what's been involved in the LWG so far. How about defining some specific points about what an acceptable loss of data will be,

Re: [OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 14 July 2010 20:59, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: What do you suggest would be acceptable / unacceptable? I would consider things to fail if more than 5-10% of data disappears in any region. At the very least it would be demoralising for anyone that spent even a few hours working to

Re: [OSM-talk] fact-based vote?

2010-07-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 15 July 2010 04:56, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: [I re-added attribution for John Smith that appears to have been dropped during context trimming.] Pretty sure Kai was responsible for this sentiment on the legal list thread. Right, the contributor terms state 2/3 of active

[OSM-talk] Defining critical mass...

2010-07-13 Per discussione John Smith
There has been a slightly disturbing thread on the legal-talk list about defining critical mass, so far things aren't any closer to being defined and statistics are being abused to suit positions: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-July/003453.html At this stage I'll not be

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 July 2010 06:25, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: Then now the question : how can we determin if we use 'name' or 'operator' if it is one or the other ? e.g. restaurants or hotel might or might not be part of a chain, thus might be tagged with 'name' or 'operator'. Shall know the door to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 July 2010 06:59, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote: I would say the exact opposite. The tag 'name' is what you see on the facade. The (optional) tag 'operator' is the name of the chain but we should not suggest to not use 'name' otherwise we will have different tagging when

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 July 2010 07:25, Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com wrote: Side note: John, Do you seriously check health certificates before tagging restaurants? I don't usually tag name, just operator, I just mentioned that to point out the name is easy to locate if people did want to tag it.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 July 2010 07:18, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: I think operator has been mis-used. It appears in a lot of JOSM presets where I believe it is incorrect. This is an argument over the use of english as a language and tags that look like english words and how people interrupt

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag name vs operator

2010-07-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 July 2010 08:51, Alan Mintz alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net wrote: Is operator correct, though? Many well-known chains are franchises, where the actual operator is a company or individual that is named on the business license or health certificate. The confusion has probably come about from

[talk-au] Another day, another bridge...

2010-07-11 Per discussione John Smith
I wonder what the odds of this ending up on google in the next 6 months will be. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.27381lon=153.0753zoom=15layers=B000FTF ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Another day, another bridge...

2010-07-11 Per discussione John Smith
On 12 July 2010 10:05, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote: What about adding to those tags * leisure: pitch Didn't seem big enough to play football or cricket... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Another day, another bridge...

2010-07-11 Per discussione John Smith
On 12 July 2010 12:35, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote: John Henderson snow...@gmx.com Is the alternative to make (almost) the entire coastline a fishing pitch? Only where there are designated fishing areas. And by that I mean something that's visible on the ground, like a place

Re: [OSM-talk] Divided/Non-Divided Intersection

2010-07-10 Per discussione John Smith
On 11 July 2010 06:43, Chris Dombroski cdombroski+...@icanttype.org wrote: I ask because I think this is the cause of stupid GPS directions at times make a left, followed by a slight right Isn't that a problem with the routing software, not the data?

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org

2010-07-10 Per discussione John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu Date: 10 July 2010 18:06 Subject: [OSM-talk] Announcing help.openstreetmap.org To: OpenStreetMap Announce annou...@openstreetmap.org, OpenStreetMap Talk t...@openstreetmap.org I'm be pleased to be able to announce a new

Re: [talk-au] Progress of Victorian efforts

2010-07-10 Per discussione John Smith
On 10 July 2010 20:48, Craig Feuerherdt craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com wrote: The postcode with the largest variation to Vicmap is 3496 (Horsham) with almost 5,500km 'missing' Do any postcodes come close or exceed what Vicmap has? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-10 Per discussione John Smith
On 11 July 2010 09:50, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I presume that you refer to paragraph three of the contributor terms http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms 3. OSMF agrees to use or sub-license Your Contents as part of a database and only under the terms of

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-07-09 Per discussione John Smith
Mapquest is also planning to spent $1mill to improve OSM data in the US: http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/openstreetmap-gains-great-traction-this-week.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapquest launches site based on OSM!

2010-07-09 Per discussione John Smith
On 10 July 2010 07:56, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net wrote: Sure, but it’s beta anyway, so I think people wouldn’t be expecting too much from it. Still nice that they render it at least. I wonder how often they'll update their DB/tiles... ___ talk

Re: [talk-au] OSM, eat your heart out... :)

2010-07-09 Per discussione John Smith
On 9 July 2010 17:44, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote: eDuShi (meaning eCity) has made cool real isometric 3D maps of many cities in China. The style is somewhere in between cartoon and reality, but obviously much Looks like simcity...

[talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-09 Per discussione John Smith
As people should now be aware there is currently there is an issue, not so much with ODBL, but the new Terms and Conditions people have to agree to stating that OSM can change to other free licenses in future without requiring consent, while in theory this is a great idea since if there is a

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-09 Per discussione John Smith
On 10 July 2010 10:15, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: If you have imported data you got from someone else (other than public domain), you can't legally agree to the CTs. Since I've imported some data into OSM under my main account, I can't strictly click I Agree on that

Re: [talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 17:16, Neil Penman ianaf4...@yahoo.com wrote: Useful as some govt or corporate contributed data may be the really valuable data is that contributed by individual mappers. One of the things that set OSM apart from other maps was that although it might have had data missing,

Re: [talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 18:15, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Which brings up the Contributor Terms. Even if it is compatible, we need to either get them to agree to the CTs (very unlikely) or get an exemption from requiring that. I asked on legal-talk a while ago about who gets those

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 20:29, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: This would be one of the reasons I have decided to leave OSMF out of my life in future. I have asked this question too. Even if the license change over does go ahead with the TCs as they are we still have the option to fork the data and run

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 20:52, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: But to get back to the point of your question about the percentage required for changeover. Do you have a preference or suggestion for percentage of contributors and or percentage of data that would be right for the changeover?

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 23:30, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Simple percentage of contributors might be too limiting as a bright line as contributions follow a long tail. See the lowest graph on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats I wouldn't do it on percentage of contributors, since the

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 9 July 2010 00:35, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: You can find 10% of users who contribute 90% of the data. I would be really disappointed if only 10% of users accepted the upgrade. I'm not talking about 10% of users in general, I'm talking about a specific 10% of users that made

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 9 July 2010 01:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I understand what you mean. I would consider it a failure only 10% of contributors accepted the license upgrade. My vision of OpenStreetMap You might see it as a failure, but those 10% are the most critical, otherwise the project

[talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

2010-07-07 Per discussione John Smith
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:ODbL/Upcomingoldid=497888diff=next ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

2010-07-07 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 07:13, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I don't think that they are compatible. My experience of law is small and it is an opinion only. I've said for a while that I agree in principal with the license change, but the devil was always in the details. I was under the impression that

Re: [talk-au] cc-by not compatible with ODBL ?

2010-07-07 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 July 2010 07:31, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Bureaucrats have their own agendas and are most unlikely to want to share property GIS knowledge is power, undiluted and building up your own GIS threatens many systems. Regardless of bureaucratic agendas, the fact is if OSM

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] That license change link

2010-07-07 Per discussione John Smith
This also has me concerned, that there isn't a predefined level that would trigger a change over... or there is, but they aren't telling anyone what it is... -- Forwarded message -- From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Date: 7 July 2010 04:23 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Changed highway=*_link meaning?!

2010-07-06 Per discussione John Smith
On 25 June 2010 07:56, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: You could always have highway=link. But some links ARE motorway rules and some ARE trunk road so just saying link does not work. highway=* link=yes I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

2010-07-06 Per discussione John Smith
On 6 July 2010 17:22, Oliver (skobbler) osm.oliver.ku...@gmx.de wrote: I understand that is was decided by the OSMF board that funding is supposed to become a more structured activity. What would you say to someone interested in funding? OpenStreetMap doesn't have a strategic goal; it's never

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