Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Anyone round here ever seen the film 'Groundhog Day'? If you mean it's a desperate fud which will never end, I understand. Yes. If we separate the horrid neologism into its three component parts - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt - then I'm entirely with you on that. We are Uncertain as

Re: [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
F. Heinen wrote: Z,akskjsjkjdi That certainly wins the prize for the most coherent posting in this thread. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Licensing-Working-Group-tp6199509p6207146.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: droit d'auteur does not (as I understand the term) include database right. Its un droit des producteurs de bases de données rather than un droit d'auteur (forgive my atrocious French - its been nearly 30 years since I studied it). Nearly 20 years here, but FWIW,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: I hope that makes sense and is not too mad. Absolutely. I guess what the Wikipedia article tells us is that informally (if incorrectly) one is often called the other and that, perhaps, is where the confusion in the French translation lies. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: [some stuff] Apparently CT 1.2.4 in French have just this moment gone live: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms/FR cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Request-for-clarification

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Potlatch et lignes de bus

2011-03-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
rldhont a écrit: Dans Potlatch tu ne peux pas créer de relation de relation donc la relation line. Tu peux créer une relation de relations avec Potlatch 2: - Choisis la relation route (Advanced - double-clique) - Choisis Advanced et puis Add to - Choisis la super-relation line (ou New

Re: [Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

2011-03-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Bullock wrote: Do we *really* need to be tagging national speed limits on individual ways? E.g. the vast majority of roads ought to be one of; *residential roads subject to 30mph *rural roads subject to NSL Perhaps we could tag the ones that differ from the above - and let

Re: [OSM-talk] Named passages on hiking paths

2011-03-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gilles Bassière wrote: Eventually, I used a custom tag for my latest edit: hiking=passage [5] but I'm not sure this can make sense for other mappers I _think_ I'd call that a traverse. Generally that would apply to a passage with significant movement in the x/y axes as well as the z axis!

Re: [Talk-GB] OS and OSM

2011-03-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: I didn't bother rendering the whole country with these because everyone said how awful and useless Merridian2 was Meridian2 isn't awful or useless at all. It's an excellent dataset for quickly making street maps at (say) 1:100k or even 1:50k. I use it a lot. It is

Re: [OSM-talk] mapping hypotheticals with OSM, e.g., for public charrettes?

2011-03-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Roche wrote: How best to use OSM to map non-existent features for planning purposes, e.g., for public charrettes? This shouldn't be mapped in the main OpenStreetMap database. OSM is for mapping real, verifiable locations, not hypotheticals. Rather, you should set up your own OSM install on

Re: [OSM-talk] odbl

2011-03-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Reeves wrote: without explaining in layman's terms what this means. http://old.opengeodata.org/2008/01/07/the-licence-where-we-are-where-were-going/index.html Follow-ups to legal-talk please, so that those here who have made their mind up one way or the other don't have to read the whole

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nathan Edgars II wrote: Please don't do this, as mappers may have completely opposite ideas of what is ideal or scary. +1. OSM is for facts, not subjective judgments. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Wiki - United_Kingdom_Tagging_Guidelines

2011-03-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: Potlatch has changed it's defaults for footpaths from foot=yes to access=designated (Designated button), or access=yes (Allowed button) in version 2. Eeek, has it? I shall look at that... cheers Richard who also strongly dislikes the prissy 'highway=path+access tags' system

[OSM-talk] Zero tolerance on imports

2011-02-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
This is getting crazy. Exhibit 1: http://twitter.com/#!/maproomblog/status/39053538692698112 Whoever imported CanVec in Aylmer, Quebec obliterated hours of work and introduced hundreds of errors. #osm #openstreetmap #whybother Once again, some keyboard jockey has decided that his l337 import

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

2011-02-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Vladimir Vyskocil wrote: It seems there is no XAPI server available for a long time, what's going on ? Is this service deprecated ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/iandees/diary/12916 http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2011-January/021742.html cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-talk] Why isn't any XAPI server available ?

2011-02-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: If the service isnt designed to be portable (it only runs on one system currently, in the world), then who cares about java, why isnt it written in optimized C or some other similarly lowish level language, rather than java? Your search - murn site:svn.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Returning to the question of collateral damage

2011-02-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Edward Hillsman wrote: We refer to the OSM community, and the need to respect the work of others. The way this particular situation was handled could have done a much better job of respecting the work of others. If software needs to be modified to make it easier to show such respect, then

Re: [Talk-GB] Incorrect use of OS VectorMap District when mapping?

2011-02-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: however the most important thing is for water features to be continuous under bridges Absolutely. Otherwise some of OSM's resident under-bridge-dwellers might be misled into thinking there was no water, fall in and drown. And we wouldn't want that! cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: We wouldn't tolerate anything so disconnected from reality on the map, Yes, we'd fix it. Up to a point. We have scarce resources. We don't have enough mappers and we _certainly_ don't have

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Matthias Meißer wrote: Sorry for the mistake, but as everybody knows, this can happen, even if you fight alone against a dozen of wikipages ;) Anything I say here will only get me into trouble so I better not. :) But I don't see why did you removed the template completely instead of

Re: [OSM-talk] Wiki editing (was Re: (magical?) road detector)

2011-02-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Matthias Meißer wrote: well your theorem on getting all with one shot is great, but this doesn't work for me. Things (esp. on the wiki) are to large to do it in one step. So if you don't know, put a FIXME there. It's what we do on the map. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: I'm not a lawyer, but the current TOU seam not to allow it to be used in our editors. My understanding of this Bing term is that it's _intended_ to mean not available for use in an editor that is only available under commercial terms, e.g. the ArcGIS plugin. I agree

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Stephan Knauss wrote: Oh, I was tricked by the wiki page stating it's GPL... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch2 Wow. Who on earth added that? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/magical-road-detector-tp5993637p5998760.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-talk] (magical?) road detector

2011-02-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: You mean, as author of potlatch Only one of the authors. you dont have the potlatch wiki page on watch for edits? I also notice the edit you made, removed the entire software info block from the wiki page, not just changed the licence. Was that intentional? Yep. Way too

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: This is the one thing that perturbs me too about using the OS data. Back in the days when we only had Yahoo, I would not tag the name on a way until I had walked all the way down it checking for footpaths. If I'd only explored part of the way, I would tag the name on

Re: [Talk-GB] OS bot proposal

2011-02-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: To be clear, I have no idea who might write this bot or when So I propose we call it Bot Nukem Forever. :) Why isn't the UK complete yet? Amazingly, in a worldwide community of 350,000 registered users (with thousands in the UK), we have: - just three people working

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Brief expansion of previous point: Ed Avis wrote: So I did hesitate about adding name=Newton Road to a street which I had not visited. But then I considered the folk living on that street typing its name into Nominatim and getting no results. Let's see what Wikipedia does (and when you

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 tutorial videos. (Was: Re: Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?)

2011-02-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: I’ve created a first attempt at a short tutorial video for adding POIs using Potlatch 2. That is absolutely _brilliant_! My faith in human nature is restored. :) Do you have a file you could e-mail me? If so I'll embed it into P2 this weekend. Now off to look at Tom's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Making it impossible to make works where not all of the elements are free does nothing to protect the freedom of individuals to use OSM. That's as may be, but to restate the point made by Frederik, you can't simply wish away what the licence _actually_ _says_, simply

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: On 03/02/11 14:23, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Jonathan Harleyj...@spiffymap.net wrote: OSM applies the license to data - the license attribution it requests specifically mentions Map data. Again, who wrote the license attribution request? Not me.

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Any thoughts? Very, very sceptical. We are slowly coming out of a dismal winter and getting back into the season when we can do real surveying. That is, and always will be, OSM's strength. If a bot can fix OSM by mashing it up with OS data, it can just as easily post the

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: But what about the Lleyn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north west Wales? I've worked on Criccieth and the surrounding area for years, some others have done bits in a few other towns, but most of the county and the peninsula are still very bare after 5-6 years of OSM. I don't

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: We do also have real data on the effect of not doing imports - the towns which are almost completely unmapped. So let's go and map them. It's worked very well so far. Am I missing something? cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Adding a further 250, 000 UK roads quickly using a Bot?

2011-02-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: 'Worked very well so far' is the part I disagree with. The OSM model has worked well for densely populated, prosperous areas. It's not at all clear that it is working well for remoter ones. If it were, we would not be having this conversation. I spend half my week in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Clearly no rendering of any map is going to be unmodified in the sense of having identical sequences of 0s and 1s to the database, in which case there could be no such thing as a collective work based on a database, ever. For print, yes, that's about the size of it.

Re: [OSM-talk] New tool in Potlatch 2 for areas that share a way

2011-01-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Daniel Sabo wrote: This is a really bad idea. Drawing collinear features by sharing nodes is NEVER a good idea beyond 1 or 2 shared corners, that's what multipolygons are for. Disagree very very strongly. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Investigating missing relation

2011-01-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: I'm thinking this would be a useful feature to add to Potlatch - loading and saving files from disk. (If possible within Flash) That'll happen when we migrate from requiring Flash Player 9 to Flash Player 10, but we're not ready for that yet. cheers Richard -- View

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

2011-01-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Sam Vekemans wrote: It's a good think that potlatch2 doesn't restrict APIs :) [...] Oops, I mean restrict Imagery URLs. ... sorry got carried away on the last message :) Elizabeth Dodd wrote: If you wade through the whole conversation on the josm-dev mailing list you would be aware that

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: Come on people. There's enough editors for everyone. There's a ton of reasons, for *every* editor, why someone would use or not use it. Personally I am glad that this is so Absolutely. I'd also add that transferring your expectations of how one editor works onto

Re: [OSM-talk] Why I don't use JOSM (was Re: Non-map-based OSM editor)

2011-01-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Martin wrote: I am not sure for newer potlatch, but the few times I was forced to use it (why the hell there is undelete api available only for Potlatch and not as XML?) Hey, calm down. Less of the why the hell, please. The reason Potlatch 1 can undelete is because I wrote the undelete

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: IMHO not related to the proposal: - potlatch can not handle the proposal/nested relations correctly: The latest version of Potlatch (Potlatch 2) handles nested relations excellently. About 10 seconds' research would have told you that. Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] Boat permissions (c.f. waterways map)

2011-01-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Chance wrote: Can our resident waterways experts comment on the most appropriate tagging for navigable rivers in the UK? For example, I see you’re allowed to use a boat on the Thames along navigable parts with a license… does that mean it should be “boat=yes” or “boat=permissive”?

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: I just added navigable rivers and it looks a bit more like a network now. There are still a few odd gaps to investigate though. That's putting it mildly. :) I knew our waterway coverage was erratic but I hadn't realised it was _that_ poor. Navigable rivers are particularly

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jerry Clough wrote: I'd also second TomH: there are lots of things showing as navigable which look odd: Cromford Canal from Cromford to Ambergate (now a nature reserve, and possibly an SSSI) That is navigable, and navigated, though not as much as it was when first restored in the 1980s

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: I suspect that you could probably get a larger boat along the top bit (just south of Ambergate) without too many issues, but I think the bottom bit had signs suggesting not to disturb anything. From WW's most recent article on the Cromford: As a gateway to the World

[Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and one car per minute

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, Sending this to talk-gb@ first (rather than tagging@ or talk@) as I'm just floating an idea... I've long wanted to get motor traffic levels on rural roads into OSM. Traffic levels make a huge difference to the enjoyability of rural cycling, and would enable really fun rendering

Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and one car per minute

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Peat wrote: I think in my part of the SW the large majority of highway=unclassified would be =1 car a minute average so just from a tagging perspective it would be a lot easier just tagging those few that are busier. I'm very envious... if only I could say the same of the large

Re: [Talk-GB] Quiet lanes and one car per minute

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Traffic planners typically measure motor-vehicles-per-day (and quote it to the nearest thousand), so I'd do traffic=1000, with advice somewhere that you can use 1000* off-peak cars-per minute as an approximation. Whatever - I tend to leave that sort of stuff to the

Re: [Talk-GB] Update to OSM Analysis

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: An interesting piece of work. Scilly Isles, with 57 roads mapped, rank higher than my home town, Birmingham, with 8,972 mapped. ITYM the Scilly Isles, with 0 roads missing, rank higher than my home town, Birmingham, with 206 roads missing. Also,

Re: [Talk-GB] Update to OSM Analysis

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_the_glass_half_empty_or_half_full? Touché. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Update-to-OSM-Analysis-tp5944227p5944598.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at

Re: [Talk-GB] Waterways Map (was invisible)

2011-01-20 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Graham Jones wrote: I think I have got an alternative way of doing it - the Openlayers Permalink control can take a 'base' parameter, which is the url base that it links to (like http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit). It is working on http://maps.webhop.net/canals now. That works brilliantly

Re: [Talk-GB] FIXME and incorrect tags

2011-01-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: For example, the simple editor in P2 doesn't show either note or the way ID (it is supposed to be simple after all; the advanced editing view does show both). FWIW my ambition for P2 is to have a non-prescriptive, friendly quality inspector that will tell you about the

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Chris Moss wrote: Shouldn't maps allow you to concentrate on whatever you're interested in? Can someone please explain to me how or if this can be done with openstreetmap? It can certainly be done if you're prepared to put the effort in. Bear in mind that OSM isn't really an end user map

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Chris Saunter wrote: 2) Browser based viewer using javascript - this could be a hybrid bitmap/vector renderer that annotates bitmap tiles FWIW Potlatch 2's renderer, Halcyon, is fully stylable (using MapCSS) and also exists as a stand-alone SWF applet that you can simply drop into any

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Robinson wrote: Richard, have you got (or know of) an example of this which is up and running and accessible somewhere? There's an old old version at http://www.geowiki.com/halcyon/ . I'll try and put a new version up this weekend. cheers Richard

Re: [Talk-GB] invisible

2011-01-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Chris Moss wrote: Richard's point that OSM is a data project rather than an end user map website puzzles me. I can understand that in server terms there are huge demands but isn't one of the ways of coping with that by being selective about the data that's given out. We're a data

[Talk-transit] Public transport proposal

2011-01-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, I note with some alarm the very complex, relation-heavy proposal for mapping simple public transport objects. Could I have your assurance that the proponents of this proposal will also be providing good-quality patches for the three principal editors (Potlatch, JOSM,

Re: [Talk-transit] Public transport proposal

2011-01-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
André Joost wrote: No need to panic, you don't *have* to use relations. I'm not panicking as a mapper. As a mapper I have exactly 0.0 interest in mapping bus stops. I'm anxious as an editor (co-)author. If such relations become widespread, they will (without explicit support) appear in

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-11 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: Crikey, dont let them see the Old Eyre Highway across southern Australia, or the Outback Highway[1] across Central Australia. Together over 3000km of highly travelled road, connecting the western coast of the country to the central/eastern regions. Just goes to show the

Re: [OSM-talk] surface=unpaved

2011-01-11 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Asztalos Attila wrote: On 11-Jan-2011 15:51, Richard Mann wrote: Which is not to say that knowing which roads are cobbled wouldn't be handy sometimes (but I probably think of this as something you need to render for yourself (cue ad for Maperitive...)) I certainly see the merit of the

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Alex Mauer wrote: Which one were you thinking of? I count two road types in your list: highway=track and highway=unclassified. And it could be other highway=* types too. highway=track doesn't imply a road round here; clearly YMV. It’s still better to use highway=road even if it turns

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Alex Mauer wrote: Sounds like the usage is wrong “round there” then. The example image on the wiki[1] clearly shows a road http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingslandschft_Aaretal_Schweiz.jpg I think if you described that as a road in the UK you'd have the Trades Descriptions

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: If we assume that the reading of ODBL in the LWG minutes is correct, then ODBL would not require attribution of OSM's sources in produced works (e.g., maps), rather only attribution of the OSM database. I'm restating what I said in

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=unsurfaced

2011-01-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: They seem to be evenly spread over the planet and was depreciatedhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features almost three years ago. Depreciated means reduced in value. You mean deprecated, but you can only deprecate a feature from the wiki docs, not from the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: Thanks, David. Bother. Either it refers only to Royal Mail-tainted Code-Point data as immediately above the text or the OS are pulling a fast one by re-writing the OGL ... making it effectively their old problematic license. Assuming the latter we'll need to lobby.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Erm doesn't that invalidate the flexibility or relicense in future people keep going on about? I think Mike already answered that one at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-January/005716.html . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: Richard wrote: Mike Collinson wrote It incorporates the Open Government License for pubic sector information I sincerely hope it doesn't say that! I'm afraid it does. For those who are similarly humourously challenged may I point out that I have checked and no, the OS

Re: [Talk-GB] OS have switched to Open Government License today...

2011-01-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: But (unless I've missed something) that doesn't deal with the issue that the CTs reserve the right to switch the data to (amongst other things) a non-attribution licence at a future date. Attribution is guaranteed by the Contributor Terms (section 4), which continue

Re: [Talk-GB] OS have switched to Open Government License today...

2011-01-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Mann wrote: Ah. So maybe I did miss something. Are those now the CTs I'm agreeing to if I click the magic button? I believe (I'm not on LWG) that the intention is to give them one more tidying-up review and then make them live behind the magic button. I don't think they're there yet.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: hopefully OS will switch to the new Open Government License soon, which is explicitly compatible with ODbL. They switched today. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: given that at least one contributor has been pointlessly editing my personal contributions apparently so that they are no longer ODbL-ready, sickly sadly all too possible. That's vandalism, of course. Could you share their user ID? cheers Richard (Rather

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I still don't understand how data could be accepted on that basis in the first place, either there has to be firm statements that such data would be removed, not may be removed As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I think that actions speak louder than words svn is that way cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-CTs-and-the-1-April-deadline-tp5887879p5891828.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 5 January 2011 22:41, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do anything illegal into the Contributor Terms [...] What's with the comparisons of contract law and criminal law

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

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Free data needs no license or CT. I agree! I'm really glad you - like me and many others - are dedicating your data to the public domain. No licence, no CT. Once OSM continues under new license and CT (as currently presented) I demand to have my owned data withdrawn. Oh,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I was under the impression that only the US had personal copyright infringement as a criminal offence... It's an offence in EW whether personal or commercial. For a business, it's an offence to distribute copyrighted material without licence; for an individual, it's an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: Clause 2 requires contributors to make a large grant of IP rights to OSMF on any content added to OSM. I believe that the intent here is actually that you only grant OSMF the rights necessary for them to act as described in clauses 3 and 4. Agreed. Lets now

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: On 04/01/11 15:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. [citation needed] (http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/xfiles1.jpg) :) I keep meaning to sit down and write a long blog post about

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: That might work for ODBL which has attribution requirements, although if produced works are exempt from attribution requirements They're not. ODbL 4.3 requires attribution on produced works. and the CT allows for license changes to non-attribution licenses It doesn't. CT 4

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: ODbL 4.3 requires that the source database be attributed, not any data sources that went into making that database. As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting or Re-utilising the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents in a new Database). To take the example given in ODbL 4.3a,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I will currently be one of the people locked out because I have used the Ordnance Survey open data which is apparently incompatible with the new license. OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. cheers Richard -- View this message in

Re: [OSM-talk] What phones do OSMers have?

2011-01-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: Specifically I'm wondering if everyone has androids because we're all open source nuts or if it's more balanced? Only the data will show. I have a Samsung B130. It's fantastic. You can make phone calls on it, and stuff. Actually, no. You can make phone calls on it. According to

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: Hmm.. FYI as the problem seems to occur over most of Bristol I should tell you I've been adding the residential areas to a multi-polygon (Relation 1277566) Their number complexity (inner outer areas) have grown considerably; maybe by too much. Having had a brief look at it I

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: It appears that it could be the volume of entities as when I pan in to the centre from more rural areas it's fine until it reach densely tagged areas. If I pan quick enough it's fine until the screen has displayed the vast majority of ways. Could one of you post a permalink to

Re: [Talk-GB] Potlatch 2 'sticking' in Bristol

2010-12-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tim Francois wrote: I case you haven't received one privately yet: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2lat=51.46925lon=-2.60749zoom=17 Brilliant - thank you (and Dave) for that. There's some particular data there which is causing P2 to throw an error. When I open it in Flash

Re: [OSM-talk] Did Googles map quality recently degrade?

2010-12-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: I'm really wondering who is pulling the strings there, because now it is even more trivial to see how much better we are. Anyone is seeing this happening in their area's as well? Certainly in the UK there's a lot more 'Google-sourced' data appearing on the maps,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: We need to find a norm as a community so we don't have this conflict. We do have a norm as a community. 99% of people are tracing from Bing imagery and you're not. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: So, can you tell from every edit you did, whether you used nearmap as a reference while doing the edit? If so, you must be one of the very small percentage of people who tagged 100% every change they made or one of the very large percentage of people not from Australia.

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Toby Murray wrote: The source is documented in both the changeset comments and on the nodes themselves. I saw a conversation on IRC to the effect that the data is indeed PD so there don't seem to be any worries on that front at least. A simple assertion that this is PD isn't good enough.

Re: [OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

2010-12-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Stefan de Konink wrote: Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the data, it should be enough. No. By that logic we'd never revert data which is clearly traced from infringing sources. We can, and we do. The OSM map is a single collaborative project, not a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: In addition, some licences (such as the new UK Open Government Licence) openly avow compatibility with ODC's attribution licences (ODC-By and ODbL). Nice bait and switch... Goodness me, John, do you have to be so confrontational about _everything_?! In your first

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: That however does require the importer/mapper to raise the issue to a level where that support exists. As the LWG has pointed out, that hasn't worked in the past, and there is IMHO no reason to believe that it will magically start working in the future. Oh, sure,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-07 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: Asking a mapper community with a majority of non-lawyer, non-native English speakers to determine if two licenses are compatible (one of which will always be quite complex) with some degree of certainty is just a joke. Not at all. Most imports will fall under one of a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Sam Larsen wrote: you cannot create permanent, offline copies of the imagery Isn't this why we couldn't use SPOT imagery for HOT in Pakistan using Potlatch - we were only able to use JOSM ( others) due to local caching of tiles in Potlatch. Is this an issue? No. Caching is not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: I am yet to see a license. http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details has a set of terms of use embedded in the post specifically for OSM. It's a Scribd document and therefore requires Flash Player. There is also a PDF download link. If you are unable to see the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: If the OSMF board wish to move OSM to PD They don't, rendering the rest of your e-mail moot. I mean, personally I think it'd be lovely if they did, but they don't. I'm slightly amazed that anyone can consider this who has ever read any licence-related postings by the chairman

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: But that is opengeodata.org, not Microsoft, you would need a license from Microsoft. It was posted on OGD by a Microsoft employee and I can confirm I've had the exact same licence sent from a Microsoft e-mail address. I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up soon on the same topic. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/12/01/bing-maps-aerial-imagery-in-openstreetmap.aspx Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

2010-12-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Just to clarify is this http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html the document which contains the license grant? No; the document is the one embedded in the OpenGeoData posting (http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details). Like I say I'd envisage it might be

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