Re: [OSM-fi] Fixing broken and old-style multipolygons

2017-04-03 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
/The_Future_of_Areas. Good luck for you. Regards, -Jukka Rahkonen- Jochen Topf kirjoitti 2017-04-03 13:25: Hi! You might have seen that a few weeks ago I started a huge effort to clean up broken (multi)polgyons and old-style multipolygon relations (with tags on ways instead of on the relation) in OSM. You

Re: [OSM-talk] DB Performance (was: JOSM plugin to import GeoJSON?_

2016-03-23 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
e doubles, two dates, and two strings and that changed the numbers quite a lot: shp: 170 MB gpkg: 153 GB splite: 185 GB No huge differences is file sizes when data have attributes. -Jukka Rahkonen- Mike Thompson wrote 2016-03-23 03:26: This from the ogr2ogr documentation[1] may be rele

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM plugin to import GeoJSON?

2016-03-22 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
a. Write performance especially with concurrent writes is another story. I am talking about read-only operations. I know that I am writing empty words as far as I do not include reproducible facts but I am willing to join to a controlled test if someone is organizing such. -Jukka Rahkonen-

Re: [OSM-talk] JOSM plugin to import GeoJSON?

2016-03-07 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
re better > alternatives. > > Is this plugin still maintained: https://github.com/iandees/josm-geojson ? > Other plugins or alternatives? Perhaps ogr2osm still works http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk maili

[OSM-talk] Motion: Dedicated mailing list for abandoned railways

2015-09-09 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
understood that abandoned railways are special and therefore they deserve a dedicated list. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any expert CC-BY -> ODbL negotiators?

2015-09-01 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
and open license". Hi, Have you noticed that there are already quite many Australian datasets including Victorian Government data listed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Contributor_specific_attribution_and_disclaimer -Jukka Rahkonen ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What extra permissions are needed to include CC-BY data in OSM

2015-05-06 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
CC-BY and OSM data into the same table can I do delete from table where source='OSM' before delivering that as a CC-BY 4.0 database? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[OSM-talk] Steve's better map

2014-10-29 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
importing addresses from this master address database into OSM later. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Where did we get 500000 new users?

2014-07-25 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, There is a big jump in the number of OSM users between 20th and 21st of July, why? See http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/ -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using geocoding results in an app

2014-05-28 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
that the current interpretation is that your database would be derived from OSM and thus you must publish the data you collect under ODbL. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-talk] Converting .osm file into shape file or mapinfo table

2014-05-28 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
was to get MapInfo files, thus ogr2ogr -f MapInfo file output.tab input.pbf -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2014-05-03 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors [6] http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attributing OpenStreetMap at Mapbox

2014-05-03 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
source worldwide so it could be reasonable. However, in Finland and Norway, for example, MapBox may utilize more data from the national mapping agencies (or maybe not, I do not know). Would that change the situation - localised ranking of data sources needed? -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] Azimuth measurement

2014-04-08 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
point with GPS and there's an azimuth line. The longer the line the better is the accuracy. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
data under attribution-only license. Because of this using the data is simple. This has also helped OSM because raster maps and aerial images can be utilized for digitizing and vector data imports have started this year. Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
doesn't seem to be compatible with what is generally known about googles ToS (naturally I assume that is just a question of money) I haven't heard about any troubles with Google's ToS and I know that lawyers have been used for checking that. Don't know about money. -Jukka Rahkonen- Simon

Re: [OSM-talk] where to buy custom, large print OSM maps?

2014-03-08 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Mikel Maron mikel_maron at yahoo.com writes: anyone doing this?   * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 at mikel s:mikelmaron http://www.geofabrik.de/maps/printed.html -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution Requirements

2014-01-11 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
board minutes. And I'm very tired of people trying to weasel around the absolute minimal requirements we pose on reuse of OSM data. Minutes from October, 2013 is the latest in page http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes#Licensing_Working_Group Do yuo mean that? -Jukka

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution Requirements

2014-01-11 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
. Good thing is that now there is a link to just 2013-12-10 minutes in the archive which makes things even more clear for the future readers. Regards, -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License review request: Sardinia ad-hoc authorization

2013-11-26 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
-Jukka Rahkonen- Jonathan. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Timezones (was: Deleting data)

2013-10-21 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
polygons into heavy relations. Perhaps area primitives will come true one day and give some help https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/The_Future_of_Areas. -Jukka Rahkonen- Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] About CC-4.0 and ODbl

2013-10-04 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
OSM's attribution. Including all rights reserved. But doesn't BY-SA claim to cover the database rights? Doesn't that clash with the ODbL? Hi, Pekka was asking about initial import if the source vector data is published as CC-BY-4.0. Do you have opinions about that? -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-20 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
with my positive feelings. Well, I admit that the Java applet was not an especially reliable editor. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Clarifying Geocoding and ODbL

2013-06-17 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
feedback would become share-alike if user locates the place by clicking on top of the OSM base map makes administration to use Google and other other base map providers instead. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] iD Editor live on OpenStreetMap

2013-05-12 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
into GitHub they won't be seen and discussed by other users. Mailing lists may feel oldfashioned but they still have some good points. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Geospatial PDF maps from OSM data

2012-11-23 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
too complicated, but it is doable as the tutorial shows. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] Geospatial PDF maps from OSM data

2012-11-22 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
/Geospatial_OpenStreetMap_vector_and_raster_map.pdf -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is there a PD part in OSM?

2012-10-21 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-October/thread.html -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Réf.: Re: All you've ever wanted to know about the french cadastre

2012-09-28 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
do not think it is compulsory to include osm_ids in WFS services or derived ODbL databases. Users can delete or edit the object source tags but perhaps there are still better possibilities that they remain in ODbL chain than the changeset source tags. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] Street/POI Index from OSM data

2012-09-28 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
another CSV file with an uncommon structure in the same directory. The one-column CSV file that was created in the first example has such a structure. Delete the file or rename it with another extension before running the second example. Regards, -Jukka Rahkonen

[OSM-talk] Visualizing OSM relations with GDAL and OpenJUMP

2012-08-10 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
-to with a few screen captures http://latuviitta.org/documents/OSM_relations_visualized_with_GDAL_and_OpenJUMP.pdf There might be already utilities for visualizing any kind of OSM relations but even so, one more cannot make much harm. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Custom Imagery

2012-06-18 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
?  It appears there is no open background image and add to map dialog. Could you tolerate using Merkaartor? It has a pretty good support for all images supported by GDAL. It can do on-the-fly reprojection too. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql hstore (was: Wind turbines no longer rendered on mapnik layer)

2012-02-17 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
tables === select * from line_geometry, tags where tags.tag='highway' and tags.value='primary' and tags.join_id=line_geometry.osm_id 0.059 seconds -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] osm2pgsql hstore (was: Wind turbines no longer rendered on mapnik layer)

2012-02-16 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
for some special uses by converting max_speeds and other values which are actually measures from strings to integers or doubles etc. This option is so obvious that I believe that someone must have tried it already. It would be nice to hear about experiences. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-25 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Hi, On 01/24/2012 04:27 PM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: We will see much more proprietary keys in the future because people are importing huge amounts of spatial data from external sources. Maybe we should simply stop them from doing

Re: [OSM-talk] proprietary keys and values, machine readable vs. humans

2012-01-24 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
automatically updated on the OSM side later. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-talk-nl] Dutch Cadastre released all topo vector, raster and toponym data under CC-BY

2012-01-04 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
500 thematic layers and it takes around 10 gigabytes in zipped shapefiles. It is at least 50 times more than we have now in OSM. I can't yet imagine what it will mean for the OSM project in Finland. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-fi] vuosaaren bbox

2011-12-09 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
://latuviitta.org/documents/Kaupunginosia.png näkyy Kaupunkimittausosaston pienaluejakoa tuolta suunnalta, mitkä niistä ottaisit mukaan Vuosaareen? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk-fi mailing list talk-fi@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fi

Re: [OSM-fi] vuosaaren bbox

2011-12-09 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Ilpo Järvinen kirjoitti: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Ilpo Järvinen kirjoitti: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, Ari Moisio wrote: Ikuisuusprojektini OSM-kartat loadstonelle jatkuu, kiitokset tähänastisesta avusta:-) Jouduin pilkkomaan Helsingin alueen kaupunginosiksi ja sain tehtyä

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Václav Řehák rehakv01 at gmail.com writes: A fixed application would be one that does not use the OSM tile servers. The tile usage policy gives the example of distributing an app using tiles from tile.openstreetmap.org as an activity which is forbidden without prior permission from

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
/dev/examples/wfs-snap-split.html I do not want to advertise WFS over native OSM services, it just happens to be a service I know somethign about. My message is that there can be other, maybe more flexible ways for utilising OSM data than just those boring tiles. -Jukka Rahkonen

[OSM-talk] Daily stats report stopped?

2011-09-27 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Have the statistics stopped? The title of the page seems to be OpenStreetMap stats report run at Fri Sep 09 00:00:12 +0100 2011 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Extract a polygon into a polygon filter file format

2011-08-27 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com writes: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Kirill Bestoujev bestoujev at gmail.com wrote: I think it is better to try to persuade mappers from those countries to create the border in way everyone does. No. If we created this super-relation in France, it is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] using osm data and other sources in a project

2011-08-19 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
James Livingston lists@... writes: If you can't produce separate tiles, because rendering requires accessing both databases at once, then you essentially have combined the two databases together into a new one and are then rendering based on that. So would assume in this case you'd have

Re: [OSM-talk] Moving Map on Netbook?

2011-08-11 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
further development. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-11 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Robert Kaiser kairo@... writes: BTW, if you would want to change OSM to be PD, you probably would need to wipe the map clean and restart from scratch, as most contributors want an attribution to the project at least - and that's what's not guaranteed with current CC-BY-SA due to not

Re: [OSM-talk] Slim mode in osm2pgsql and out of memory error

2011-06-09 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
was not able to import the Finnish excerpt at all with the PostgreSQL 9.0 default value. But perhaps you have increased it already. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is mail address legal@... valid?

2011-06-05 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
such things from the service metadata. However, WFS services can be used without studying the metadata throughly. An example of direct data access and the output: http://188.64.1.61/cgi-bin/tinyows?service=wfsversion=1.1.0request=getfeaturetypename=tows:osm_polygonmaxfeatures=1 -Jukka Rahkonen

[OSM-legal-talk] Is mail address le...@osmfoundation.org valid?

2011-06-03 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, The page http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Groups#Licensing_Working_Group suggests that the licensing working group members should be reading posts sent to a group address le...@osmfoundation.org. Is that address still in use? -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-fi] Kuntien rajoista

2011-05-31 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
on esimerkki tiedostossa http://188.64.1.61/Kosmo_WFS_ohje.pdf. Uusi Kosmo-versio ilmestyy todennäköisesti viikon sisällä. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk-fi mailing list talk-fi@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-fi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright and License in WFS service

2011-05-18 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
National Land Survey wanted only to have this text in the AccessConstraits Contains spatial data from the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) under NLS open license http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/ilmaisetaineistot The license in English is here

[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright and License in WFS service

2011-05-16 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
the access constraints before downloading data? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Unlicensed use of the logo in iPhone app?

2011-05-16 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
What I appreciate is that our logo is honouring the traditions. See the old ArcView logo http://thm-a03.yimg.com/nimage/62c0d25d4cb10b38 ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] PD aspiration statistics

2011-05-10 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, The licensing working group has been discussing about a thing called PD aspirations https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_113gtw62wdf Excerpt from the minutes 5. OpenStreetMap PD-Contributor Terms Freimut Kahrs wrote to us concerning an

Re: [OSM-talk] PD tick box

2011-04-18 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Cartinus cartinus at xs4all.nl writes: On Monday 18 April 2011 04:47:30 Steve Coast wrote: Today I watched a few people sign up for OSM and they all ticked the PD box without even looking at it, it was very entertaining. And hereby the expected anti-PD campaign is officially started. I

Re: [OSM-talk] PD tick box

2011-04-18 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Fabio Alessandro Locati fabiolocati at gmail.com writes: Am I worng or the PD-box is for statistical use only? It may be there for statistics but no numbers have ever been published. The other possible reason for the existence of the tick box is to make PD-minded people feel happy and be

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Teemu Koskinen teemu.koskinen at mbnet.fi writes: I converted a few of the biggest lakes in Finland a few years ago to coastlines, and they worked fine, until last year some other user converted them to multipolygons with natural=water -tags. He also splitted the biggest lake (Päijänne)

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi writes: By the way, i checked that the biggest lake polygon in the data of the National land survey of Finland is the lake Saimaa, and it has exactly 287273 vertices and more than 5000 islands. It is a bit heavy to handle in PostGIS and Oracle

Re: [OSM-talk] Spanish official land register (Catastro) changes its license

2011-04-07 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
jynus jynusx at gmail.com writes: I think it is an announcement with the same impact as the one from the French Cadastre or Ordinance Survey permissions, maybe even better, as we have directly permission to get and use the vectorial data, updated every 3 months. We are yet greatly shocked

[OSM-talk] Tag for true OSM data?

2011-03-31 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
. Could it be reasonable to have some true_osm=yes tag for the original OSM features? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for true OSM data?

2011-03-31 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
and what tags OSM users have recorded around a given place and do comparisons with data from other data sources. But I fear no single tag nor a simple tag combination can ever be used for finding the real user contributed data and I will need to preprocess OSM data somehow. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-25 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Grant Slater writes: Not true. ODbL licensed data *can* be forked at any time without asking anyone for their blessing. I don't see how you come to the conclusion otherwise. The Licensing Working Group consulted with a lawyer during drafting of the ODbL to ensure that the ODbL licensed

Re: [OSM-talk] georeferencing OSM

2011-03-07 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
EPSG:900913 projection with gdal_translate and WMS driver as described at the bottom of the document http://gdal.org/frmt_wms.html. As a result you will have on a disk a geotiff file which is simple to re-project further into EPSG:2180 with gdalwarp. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
currently exisiting account as he wishes. That brings to my mind that how we can ever say in a reliable way who is an active contributor as defined by the CTs An active contributor is defined as: a natural person (whether using a single or multiple accounts) -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-14 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: Hi, On 12/14/10 10:28, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I do not really believe that the turnout percentage in any OSM poll would reach 66.7 percent, even if we count just the active contributors. The turnout percentage in the kind of poll mandated by the CT

Re: [OSM-talk] Microstation import

2010-12-03 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Ed Loach ed at loach.me.uk writes: If ogr2osm doesn't recognise it, perhaps you can use ogr2ogr to convert it into something that ogr2osm will recognise: http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_formats.html Ogr2osm is a python script that is using ogr so it should support all the same formats that

[OSM-talk] Spam in OSM forum?

2010-11-25 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Hi, I suppose that this last forum posting in this thread is pure spam, with all those smileys with links to various web places. http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=10078 -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] So how *do* you get GPS waypoints into OSM?

2010-11-22 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com writes: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/767553/OSM/waypoints/waypoints.zip Try WP1.gpx - WP12.gpx http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JRA/traces I added the same fake two node track to each file somewhere from the area of the first WP file. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-talk] Historical Data in OSM database

2010-11-09 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk writes: In the past we have been told If you want it - Add it - other people do not have to use it. I just think this is another case of that which we need to agree methods for since at least a few people DO want to share the information. If I'm mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] SotM11 will be held in Denver.

2010-10-25 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
SotM11 is planned to be arranged just after the FOSS4G conference. I do not believe it is an accident because Steve Coast and Mikel Maron are members of the FOSS4G Local Organizing Committee (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Denver_LOC). It can be a good idea if people can spend the whole

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-13 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: I think you have understood this all right. In my eyes there's a wide band between clearly non-copyrightable edits on one side (which we could legally keep in OSM even if the person who added them said no - but we're unlikely to exercise that right) and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licansing and CT 1.1

2010-10-05 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Ed Avis e...@... writes: Perhaps there should be a meta-contributor-terms where you agree to accept future contributor terms proposed by the OSMF. Then there wouldn't be the need to re-ask everybody each time the contributor terms change. Insurance companies would love this idea :)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

2010-10-05 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Ed Avis e...@... writes: What I meant to say was: under these contributor terms, OSM is not compatible with itself! Although the OSM project licenses its data under CC-BY-SA or under ODbL, it would not accept such licences from others. Whether this really matters, or is just an obscure

[OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licansing and CT 1.1

2010-10-04 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Some of us have pressed a button and accepted contributor terms v. 1.0. However, there seems to be a draft for version 1.1 https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_81272pvt54 Does it mean that the voluntary re-licensing campaign is chiefly an exercise and everybody will need to accept version

[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution in digital services like WFS

2010-09-23 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
just a subset of attributes. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

[OSM-legal-talk] Natural person in CT 3

2010-09-20 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Clause 3 in CTs says: An active contributor is defined as: a contributor natural person (whether using a single or multiple accounts) This aims, I suppose, at giving only one vote for each natural person. How could this be checked? The real identity of contributer has never been asked, all we

Re: [OSM-talk] Partnership between OSM and local government?

2010-09-20 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Aun Yngve Johnsen lists at gimnechiske.org writes: You mean, how would the city council benefit apart from the fact they are participating in a free, powerful routable map with loads of features? Free worldwide distribution, availability on several types of equipment. Software to make

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-02 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Biber wrote: On Thu, 2 September, 2010 11:22:54 AM, andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com wrote: Besides, there's nothing in the Google Terms of Service which says you may not make use of the facts you learn by using this website. That'd just be silly. Not to mention unconscionable,

Re: [OSM-talk] Can OSM sources be public domain CC-0(zero)?

2010-09-01 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
-is-it-anyway/ Google will not rise a hullabaloo against you. But if you want to have fun check the coordinates from both OSM and Google (and Yahoo and Bing as well) and use the average. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-27 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com writes: It seems that culvert=yes is ambiguous. It can be a ford or applied on the road. I'm also in favour to replace culvert=yes by tunnel=culvert, bridge=culvert or ford=culvertIt has also the advantage of simplifying the tag management in applications (can just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future relicensing in the contributor terms and data imports

2010-08-24 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
James Livingston li...@... writes: On 23/08/2010, at 4:22 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Not only the Contributor Terms - the whole project is. Data importing should always be the exception and not the rule. But is it though? I guess that's the nub of the issue with data imports and licensing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL - a philosophical point

2010-08-23 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
andrzej zaborowski balr...@... writes: That's what I think the plan is. However it is made very difficult by the fact that those data providers most likely chose their SA licenses in order to be able to use any improvements made on top of their data, which we are planning to very soon make

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-21 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Graham Jones grahamjones139 at googlemail.com writes: Hi, I think improving the documentation for new users (and experienced ones too!) is a really good idea - I think we lack information for the casual new user. The disadvantage of directing this group to Potlatch is that they need to

Re: [OSM-talk] Valid geometry for closed ways

2010-08-20 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org writes: Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: If you want polygons to behave as in paleo GIS, you should refer to the industry standars. Specifically, to http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfa , version 1.2.1, page 26: Agree with all, except

Re: [OSM-talk] Valid geometry for closed ways

2010-08-20 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Sebastian Klein bastikln at googlemail.com writes: I remember someone said that Multipolygon would be misnomer. But according to this specification, it fits quite well, doesn't it? All the polygons can be called multipolygons. Polygon is a simple variant of a multipolygon, and it can hold

Re: [OSM-talk] collection/street relation: which one to use?

2010-08-19 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Anthony osm at inbox.org writes: So I prefer to add the street name to the street (as name) and addr:street to the building/shop etc. I think for now that's probably the best solution. And just hope there aren't too many instances of Main Street on the addr vs. Main St on the way. And

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, CTs and tracing GPS tracks

2010-08-17 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
TimSC mapp...@... writes: Hi all, Apologies if this has been raised before, but I was wondering about GPS track data and licenses. Presumably we are using public GPS trace data under CC-BY-SA. By the way, it would be helpful to clarify that on the wiki. I'll ignore the problem of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, CTs and tracing GPS tracks

2010-08-17 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
80n 80n...@... writes: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I have understood that uploaded GPS track logs that we have now are effectively public domain. They are facts (even they do not allways tell the truth) and they miss all the creativity so they are not copyrightable. Is this a correct

Re: [OSM-talk] ODBL vote (was Re: Enough is enough: d isinfecting OSM from poisonous people)

2010-08-12 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com writes: hi, after checking the 'in addition make pd' box, is there a way to 'uncheck' that box if we change are mind at a later date? say, if i discover more information that would make me change my mind. (i can with google photos, as an

[OSM-talk] OpenJUMP supports live GPS with OSM data now

2010-08-11 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
it to shapefile and add then as a new layer into OpenJUMP map. -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA derived ODbL data

2010-08-10 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
are going to be strict, how can we sort them out? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
you give an example of a thing that is done by a human being and that is not art by this definition? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

2010-08-10 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net writes: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I like this test because it will make things easy. No fuzzy shades of grey like some Richard is suggesting. I'm not suggesting, I'm reporting. You might like things to be easy but that isn't the way the law works

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
that we must not claim that this kind of work is creative and copyrightable. That will be used against us and against all the citizens willing to use geospatial data produced by our administrations. We should show an example about free geodata, not the opposite. -Jukka Rahkonen

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
80n 80n...@... writes: So, without your best endeavours, would you agree that these contributors would naturally introduce some creativeness?  If you have to expend effort to remove creativity then you have made a pretty good case for the existence of creativity.  Thank you for your testimony.

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering street names across several ways

2010-07-02 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
the ways have opposite directions), * unless it's a zoom level where the oneway arrows are invisible. Hi, I hope that if osm2pgsql will have this kind of Mapnik specific import rules, they would be optional. People are using osm2pgsql also for other purposes than Mapnik rendering. -Jukka

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

2010-06-24 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
by enhancing their own data by taking tags from OSM database. Drawing their own data on top of OSM basemap is OK, isn't it? -Jukka Rahkonen- ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

2010-06-24 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Richard Fairhurst rich...@... writes: Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Andy Allan writes: If they have geographic data that we don't have, and they mix it with OSM data, then the whole point is that we end up with access to their geographic data. [...] You are obviously reading section 4.5

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

2010-06-24 Per discussione Jukka Rahkonen
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: I think that OSM as a whole - and this is not a legal issue - needs to improve interoperability. What we're currently seeing is import mania, poeple trying to stuff every possible bit of information into OSM because that's the easiest way for them to use

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