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

2010-12-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Is this available from Microsoft somewhere or a Microsoft web site? It was posted on OpenGeoData by a Microsoft employee and I had a copy e-mailed to me (in advance) by a Microsoft employee. Like I've said at least twice now :) , it may need some firming up so please don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing imagery now available in JOSM

2010-12-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Felix Hartmann wrote: Is source=bing verified? Else it is pretty bad to start mapping As already posted, there is no formal requirement in the Bing licence to use a source tag, but it's good OSM practice anyway. FWIW Potlatch 2 has source=Bing as the preset tag. Richard -- View this

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

2010-11-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Klein wrote: I don't really understand this paragraph, does it mean they want us to give them the vector data we trace from their imagery, so they can use it any form? No. Bear in mind that us means Microsoft when you read this: | [2] 5. Your Content. Except for material that we

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 almost down?

2010-11-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I get a 404 error for P2 via Mapquest through geowiki It loads the editor displays a selected background but no data Could you try the Geowiki instance again? I've just tweaked a little problem that was showing up. (I tend to forget people use the Yahoo imagery. Roll on Bing.

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

2010-11-27 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: 1. OSMF needs a written out strategic plan. Hear, hear. The equivalent of Patches welcome in this case is: OSMF is a democratically elected body. Candidates welcome. I guess 2011's elections will take place at the start of July as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: b) Many people contribute to OpenStreetMap and would prefer a Public Domain license. [...] I do not know, however, whether people in group b are interested in a compromise or whether a fork of OpenStreetMap is seen as inevitable anyway. Plenty of PD

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

2010-11-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups to legal-talk please] David Murn wrote: I have no interest in the legal detail of the licence, only interested in talking about the ramifications of the licence on our map data, no matter how many times people try to derail this important issue to a legal mailing list. It is

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Luke W. (lakeyboy) wrote: Is there already a usable URL out there that can be put into Potlatch 2 or other editors? You could in theory use Bing right now in Potlatch 2 if you run your own instance, but although the code's been written, none of the public instances (Geowiki, MapQuest, or even

Re: [OSM-talk] Steve Coast Joins Microsoft as Principle Architect ofBing Mobile

2010-11-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Grant Slater wrote: Same answer for the Potlatch... http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/1602/how-can-i-use-microsofts-aerial-imagery-in-potlatch Potlatch 2 can now, as of five minutes ago, display Bing-format tiles. We're waiting for the official start tracing announcement, and any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: It's curious that two of the strongest defences of 'strong share-alike' come from yourself and Richard F. - but both of you prefer public domain. I, too, would prefer public domain over the ODbL. What's going on? Shouldn't we stop adding more legalese and just focus on

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

2010-11-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Murn wrote: the problem is that the powers-that-be dont seem to want to address the problematic terms and simply tell people the decisions have already been made, and to cease discussion. Hardly the way to run an open community project. I realise the phrase assume good faith is

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

2010-11-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I don't agree with ODBL. I don't think that it is right that those providing manipulated data eg data ready for a navigation app (Navit, Garmin format) should have to provide access to a planet dump of OSM as well. They don't have to. ODbL 4.6b: You must also offer

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: You are not free to ignore the share-alike clause. You are simply avoiding it by not publishing the combined work. The ever-unreliable dictionary on this Mac defines publish as print (something) in a book or journal so as to make it generally known: we pay $10 for every letter we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: I see the example. Are you saying that this is a problem? It looks perfectly fine to me. Depends what you mean by problem. If I were to contrast Scenario A (applying styles programmatically as in the geowiki.com example, and delivering it via a Flash applet) and Scenario B

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: There's a disconnect in your argument. No, there isn't, because: Your evenings of effort and your knowledge, skill and personal judgement are not subject to CC-BY-SA licensing and are irrelevant. The end product of all that effort is the thing that is relevant. That end

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-18 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Do you mean to say that the earlier statement is true - that it's not possible to produce truly public domain, unrestricted map tiles or printed maps from the ODbL data? Yes. ODbL is very clear that there's an attribution requirement (4.3). (I believe that the reasonably

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups to legal-talk, where this thread really should have started] Kevin Peat wrote: Personally I don't care if the current license is weak as most organisations will respect its spirit and if a few don't who cares, it doesn't devalue our efforts one cent. I can't see how changing to an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Peat wrote: But isn't the bit that's causing the bulk of the discussion a limited part of the CTs, not ODbL per se? For most people, yes, though there are a few people for whom ODbL per se is unpalatable (I think 80n is one, but he can correct me if I'm wrong). Personally I don't have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I feel the same way but I come to different conclusions because of different starting assumptions. Sure. YMMV and no two people come at this with the same philosophy. My strongly-held belief is that, just as it's generally accepted that to discriminate against fields of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: I really don't get this. We have been through this before. I have no interest in engaging with you - the sole person about whom I'll say that after six years in this project - as a result of the ad hominem you resorted to last time round. I will happily talk to Etienne, John,

Re: [OSM-talk] tracking deletions

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: Is there an easy way to track deletions only in a particular area? When editing the area in Potlatch, you can press 'U' (for undelete) to find deleted ways, and recover them if you desire. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] tracking deletions

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: that works great, thanks how does potlatch recover this information? is there an API method I haven't noticed? Only in Potlatch 1's AMF API at present, but you can call this from Perl, Python or Ruby if you're feeling brave:

Re: [Talk-GB] ODBL Coverage

2010-11-16 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Craig Loftus wrote: I wasn't suggesting that Oxford was mapped using OpenData licensed content. I was actually using the visualisation with the understanding that there was a strong OSM community in Oxford and that the visualisation might therefore be used as a proxy measure of those who

Re: [OSM-talk] Google expands their map data

2010-11-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
S Omeone wrote: OpenStreetMap has of cause something similar with OpenStreetBugs (which Google may well have used as inspiration), but unfortunately, as too often, less convenient. [...] Can we perhaps learn something from Google of how to build a nice user friendly crowd sourcing of

Re: [Talk-GB] Talk-GB Digest, Vol 50, Issue 8

2010-11-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mike Harris wrote: But bear in mind that a search on highway=footway would perhaps miss most bridleways and byways that are often also public rights of way. Like I said, You'd obviously need to be slightly 'fuzzy' about it. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Footpath reference numbers

2010-11-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nick Whitelegg wrote: I do this already to some extent but the only problem is that the comments are linked to the path's OSM ID. Obviously if the path is split, or deleted and redrawn, the OSM ID then becomes invalidated so it's tricky to ensure that comments remain associated with the

Re: [Talk-GB] Fwd: Map layer with OS Locator comparison from ITO - apostrophes

2010-11-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Sure (if you accept that the street sign put up by the council is more authoritative than the Ordnance Survey's database, which actually I doubt). A quick glance at the local OS map shows me a street name that anyone in the town would know was wrong (Crawborough Road, should

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Gorm E. Johnsen wrote: Again: Left and right co-exist nicely. I do not propose to convert between them. That is of course up to the individual mapper. Again: What I _do_ propose, is to rename a tag on some elements. From top to bottom in the example. It's all right, you can stop explaining.

Re: [OSM-talk] highway=ford vs ford=yes

2010-11-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: In fact tagging it highway=*, ford=yes makes it *easier* for routers as they have to do less checking to see whether the ways on each side are the same. Hang on a sec. :) Gorm has already changed highway=ford on _ways_ to ford=yes, highway=something_or_other. This has

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-15 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Körner wrote: Valent Turkovic wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing their tiles under a free license. They distribute it now for free? Why? They are forced to by the CC-BY-SA License. ...is evidently

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Mike N. wrote: And along those lines, based on the constructive criticism, the default map shown on the main OSM page should be a pretty map, using tiles from Mapquest, while mappers that have a need to view more details can select one of the existing map styles. 41latitude is a really

Re: [OSM-talk] Response to A critique of OpenStreetMap

2010-10-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: Point 1: I'm not denying that the data in the U.S. is messed up. On the other hand I can't count the number of times people say things that I summarize to 'God, why are you Americans too stupid, lazy or import crazy to map your own country? It really makes people want to

Re: [OSM-talk] Ongoing bulk uploads of GPS traces?

2010-10-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: There was a Russian transport mob who managed to completely overload the track upload system trying to put up gps traces to the main database. Separate hosting would keep that from happening - WA is on the same huge scale as Russia. Different issue. The issue with

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch2 and shp files

2010-10-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Sam Vekemans wrote: Does anyone know if there are plans to ipliment the auto-conversion of shp files to be used in the foreground of the potlatch2 environment? Not automatically converted into the foreground, no. The idea is that you load them as a vector background layer, and you can then

Re: [OSM-talk-fr] Mise à disposition des données SPOTMaps France à la communauté OpenStreetMap par Spo t Image

2010-10-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Jean-Francois (Jeff) Faudi wrote: La liste des applications pourra être completée ultérieurement mais actuellement la décision est de ne fournir la donnée qu'au sein d'applications clients lourds et non d'applications web. Désolé pour les utilisateurs de Potlach pour l'instant. Nous

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM User Testing

2010-10-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
SteveC wrote: We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and we'll put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street? Find a mailing list? Add a point of interest? What should they do? That's up to you. At the risk of stating the really bleeding obvious, there's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-10-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I ask once more from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence? It doesn't. That's why it's asking the rights-holders to change the licence for the data which they've contributed[1]. What OSMF does have, though, is a mandate to host whatever it likes at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-10-01 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: It may be possible to argue that OSMF did try to engage the community. Rather than me try to make the case, it's more fun seeing what justifications people are trying to use on the mailing list! Seriously? You actually see this as some sort of trolling contest, trying to get

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

2010-09-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: However, under the proposed licence change and contributor terms, OSM would not be able to participate fully in this commons. Although the ODbL would allow others to take the OSM data and combine it with other ODbL or permissive- licensed data sources, the OSM project

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-09-29 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
kevin wrote: The issue here is a licence has been chosen, that appears incompatible with current practise Think you've got your chronology the wrong way round there. Blog post on moving to ODbL: January 2008. [1] OS OpenData released: April 2010. Richard [1]

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Cordina wrote: As to the usefulness - a map compiled from purely the OS streetview data would serve one of my purposes for OSM data (rendering nameless maps of streets and natural features) 100% perfectly, so it is not a fair assumption that more data = more value. If you want a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-28 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Cordina wrote: As to the usefulness - a map compiled from purely the OS streetview data would serve one of my purposes for OSM data (rendering nameless maps of streets and natural features) 100% perfectly, so it is not a fair assumption that more data = more value. If you want a

[Talk-GB] Distinguishing between RCN and LCN

2010-09-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, There seems to be a bit of confusion on which cycle routes are tagged as RCN (Regional) and which as LCN (Local). I think, at first, the idea was that the three tags would correspond to the three types of numbered routes in the UK: NCN for the National Cycle Network (white

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: This is because a gate with no access tags implies that nothing can go through. Where on earth do you get that idea from? barrier=gate states that there's a gate. The thing about gates, as opposed to (say) walls, is that you can open them to get through. Here are some

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: Nic Roets wrote: This is because a gate with no access tags implies that nothing can go through. Where on earth do you get that idea from? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:barrier in the sidebar under 'implies' And AFAIK that rule goes back to 2008. Wow. The OSM wiki

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-17 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: The ODbL already doesn't enforce viral attribution on derivatives of produced works I don't intend to go over the argument on this again, but treat this message as a little stake in the ground with I disagree with the above statement written on it. cheers

Re: [OSM-talk] Exceeded API bandwidth limit, now what?

2010-09-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: [helpful response] I've wikified this for the Developer FAQ: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ#I.27ve_been_blocked_from_the_API_for_downloading_too_much._Now_what.3F cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] Feature Proposal - Voting - Craft

2010-09-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Körner wrote: after two weeks without contradictions, I'll open up voting for the Craft proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Craft Please, this stuff belongs on tagg...@. If there is a tagging suggestion that you really really feel that talk@ HAS to

Re: [Talk-GB] Dorset/Wilts county boundary wrong...is there adefinitive source?

2010-09-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Doerr wrote: No problem: once the bulk import has been done, a bulk delete of any boundaries not derived from OS Opendata is done, so there is no potential for conflict/duplication. Er, no. If people want a carbon copy of OS OpenData, the OS download site is that way. Unlike OSM

Re: [Talk-GB] OS Opendata the new license/CT

2010-09-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: I'm trying to understand the new license Contributor Terms and how they stand when compared specifically with OS OpenData. I'm after *facts* about the re-license as they're worded at the moment. Blimey, can't imagine that catching on. Trying to be as dispassionate as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
(Replying to two messages at once as they seem related) Anthony wrote: But it's quite a leap from some databases (e.g. white pages) are non-copyrightable in some jurisdictions and databases are non-copyrightable. In fact, I'd say it's quite plainly false. Oh, absolutely. Copyright and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: I would have hoped the guy who established moderation on the lists would have thought to avoid insulting people. Will the other moderators do their job or just rally round Steve, regardless what he says on the list? There are no other moderators. Apart from Steve's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Given your arguments on this list, I'd guess you're quite prepared to believe anything that might help prevent you from admitting that you are wrong. At this point the argument has departed from factual/philosophical to ad hominems, so I'll bow out. To anyone who's listened,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: [Jane Smith] copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of Production. Are there any moderators here? Can we get this troll banned please. I'm the list administrator for legal-talk. I'm not quite sure what offence 'Jane Smith' might have committed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: Using OSM material for our online tool

2010-08-31 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ole Brandenburg wrote: I would be thankful if someone can point me in the right direction. We plan to use the OSM API for our map tool (at stepmap.de). We currently have a list of roughly 1,500 pre-defined maps and a zoom-feature that enables users to create their own map/region. The OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: Second, because it will do minimum damage to the community (the discussion here is evidence that the community WILL be badly harmed by relicensing). We'll lose people whichever way it goes. I guess, for example, that Etienne might not contribute to an ODbL-licensed OSM.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Another possibility is to assign the task of deciding what share alike means to Creative Commons. Of course, that isn't likely to work if you want to go with the ODbL... I suspect CC's answer would be similar to

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Question 1 : is culvert commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that a term mainly used by civil engineers ? It's in very frequent use among boaters on the British canals, largely because the ruddy things keep collapsing and taking the canal with them. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-26 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: Question 1 : is culvert commonly used by native english speakers ? Is that a term mainly used by civil engineers ? It's in very frequent use among boaters on the British canals, largely because the ruddy things keep collapsing and taking the canal with them. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch for Newbies

2010-08-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote: I note someone below saying Potlatch 2 will only have the offline mode. Ugh. That's a real pity. Live mode is more complex to code (and, hence, a potential source of bugs) by an order of magnitude. Stuff like merging ways and undo is incredibly convoluted in P1 because of

Re: [Talk-GB] Why I'm not currently using OS Opendat as a source WAS The last 2%

2010-08-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Phillip Barnett wrote: Potlatch is still offering Opendata as a layer, with no warning as to the potential problem vis a vis existing contributions. Shouldn't we be dropping this rather quickly? I like the we there - much better than the usual Richard. Really looking forward to the patch to

Re: [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

2010-08-22 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Chris Browet wrote[1]: The fact that many key players (SteveC, Frederik, Richard(?)) in the project also have commercial interests in the OSM data Wut? I don't have any commercial interest in OSM, at all. I'm a magazine editor. We do have maps in our magazine but we (well, I) make them

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

2010-08-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: I have moved this from [OSM-talk] Voluntary re-licensing begins to legal talk as it is worth further discussion in view of dilemmas faced by our Australian community. I understand that CC-BY-SA is currently a preferred vehicle for releasing government data. Is

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

2010-08-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote Is it? I thought most of the Australian Government data was CC-BY - a much easier problem. But still incompatible with the contributor terms in the sense that a CC-BY licensee does not have sufficient rights to agree

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributor Terms

2010-08-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
to the new license terms. Eventally new contributions will outnumber the old. This decision was made in a meeting between four people: myself, Steve Coast, Richard Fairhurst and Mike Collinson and is clearly documented here: http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/e/e3/Osmf_boardminutes_20080320

Re: [OSM-talk] Contributor Terms

2010-08-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Correcting myself: My clear recollection of it is that we decided to ask new contributors to agree to ODbL+CT should be to ODbL and a contents licence. CT wasn't on the table then. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2010-08-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
[moved from t...@] Dave F. wrote: On 13/08/2010 10:34, Richard Fairhurst wrote: ...(This is one of the reasons I'm not greatly enamoured of the upgrade clause in CT 3.) Am I understanding this correctly? Of the people that drafted the CT, 50% now don't like it? The Contributor Terms

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

2010-08-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
[Apologies for continuing cross-post, please follow-up to OSM legal-talk.] Sam Vekemans wrote: So my question is weather or not, at a later date, I can change my choice (based on new information which would want me to change my mind).? As a general point, if you declare that something is

Re: [OSM-talk] Voluntary re-licensing begins

2010-08-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Tom Hughes wrote: Which is clearly in conflict with the CTs which require you to grant OSMF a license to sublicense any data you upload under a license of their choosing subject only to a constraint that the license they choose is open and free which clearly does not restrict their

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

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: What about a tracing of a photograph of a flower? [...] What about a tracing of a photograph of a lake, as viewed from an aircraft? Bauman v Fussell may be relevant here. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Why don't you try this. Import some Ordnance Survey Street View data into OSM, then render it as a Produced Work with the ODbL required attribution I've written fairly extensively on this in talk-gb, but to reiterate a posting from May: To comply with ODbL for data obtained

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

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: This is quite a good place to start: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright_protection_of_databases It's good to see licence sceptics starting to look at the case law too. There are of course a million things you could say about rights pertaining to factual compilations in the US.

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

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I'm not being petty in the least, I want a compromise, but others have outright refused to even consider any kind of a compromise that will save years of work without resorting to shady legal tactics. Hey, now that's not fair. The reason I suggested to LWG that they drop

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

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
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... or we wouldn't have been having this discussion for the

Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 43

2010-08-10 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: No idea about printed maps, but several sites recently only linked to an attribute page on their site, rather than displaying it on top of the map, so maybe having a small lookup table of major contributors that can be linked to would be suitable? We do. :)

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

2010-08-09 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Anthony writes: I'm currently working on a fork. I'm still hopeful that people will find some compromise, and it won't be needed. (Myself I would be quite happy if the project chose a dual licence.) But if a fork proves necessary, I'll be happy to help. My impression

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

2010-08-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I respect PD guys, but in overall, I start to grow to openly dislike their attitude. Could you cite who these alleged PD guys are, please? Thanks in advance. I'm getting increasingly exasperated with people projecting this big bogeyman (or strawman. A big man made

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

2010-08-08 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Isn't it going to present some complicated management problems if the LWG changes the contributor terms at this stage in the process? No, not in this case. The proposal is a subset of the powers currently available to OSMF, not a superset. It is the existing CT _minus_ the option

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Nick Black wrote: The current mechanism by which Mapzen and Mapzen POI Collector users authenticate against OSM is horrible for users. At the risk of being really hand-wavy and imprecise, I'd just say: Twitter's OAuth UI is really exemplary. It's a great demonstration of how to get it right.

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

2010-08-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Liz wrote: As you realise, in my jurisdiction, CC-by-SA is a better licence than ODbL, as it has been well checked and has government use. No. It isn't that simple. Two recent, very high-profile judgements in Australia both repudiate the notion that copyright can protect collections of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributo terms (was : decision removing data:

2010-08-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: personally I'm still waiting for a reply to the question I asked on this list on 20 July entitled Query over Contributor Terms. Just as a reminder, the address of the Licensing Working Group is not legal-talk@openstreetmap.org . :) If you have a 'blocker'-type issue and

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

2010-08-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts? I did, last time I did some mapping. I faithfully recorded where the paths, gates and stiles were, rather than pulling some fictitious locations out of my ass. I realise that you've been far too busy trolling the

Re: [Talk-GB] Local walking routes

2010-08-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
David Ellams wrote: With one exception, the routes themselves are not signed/marked (though they follow waymarked paths). Don't tag them unless they're waymarked, _unless_ either they're proposed to be waymarked (in which case you could do so with a state=proposed tag on the relation), or

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: I'm not sure I agree. We don't want to put barriers in the way of an average user (and I use that term to explicitly distinguish between the average map site user and a mapping enthusiast) making simple corrections such as adding address information or naming un-named streets.

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I kind of understand your situation but I think the way forward would be to either use OpenStreetBugs or set up an OpenStreetBugs like system yourself, maybe integrate that in your editor - so that users without an OSM account can only place OSB markers, and those (the

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: In particular ODbL+CT will require a contractual relationship (i.e. the contributor terms) between OSMF and the user. If you are not exposing the user to the sign-up process, they are not agreeing to this contract. No, they're agreeing to terms and conditions with us. We

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution of OSM on nearmap.om?

2010-08-04 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: More seriously, though, this question has already been raised, and we follow the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F and credit OpenStreetMap in the same way and with the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

2010-08-03 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ben Last wrote: the edits that we're submitting all come from one user (that represents NearMap) since we don't (and can't) require users of our site to all be registered with OSM. Um... this is the sort of stuff that really, really needs to be discussed first. Whenever it has been raised

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

2010-07-24 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
, right? I look forward to Richard Fairhurst suing Richard Fairhurst for violating the license on Richard Fairhurst's data. *facepalm* cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Re-License-Cut-over-and-critical-mass-tp5333864p5333989.html Sent from

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Never mind what Richard says Always good advice. ;) 1) You can't actually put anything into the public domain in most jurisdictions. [...] 2) There's clearly not enough legalese there for it to be effective :-) The BSD licence is pretty short and to the best of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: In that case, is it legally sound if I download my own contribution due, to database rights? Difficult to say - I can see an argument either way. A database right certainly exists and governs extraction from the database; but if what you're extracting is exactly what you put in

Re: [OSM-talk] renaming rendering layers

2010-07-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Richard Weait wrote: Should we continue to name the osm.org tile layers by the renderers they use? Is overloading the terms mapnik and osmarender as both a tile layer, style file and rendering library confusing? We had this discussion way way way way back, and I vaguely remember

Re: [Talk-us] Community Involvement

2010-07-21 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Apologies for butting in on your mailing list - thought this one was sufficiently non-US specific it deserved an answer. Toby Murray wrote: Yes, navigation is a pain. The map features page is a pretty good index of things to map but it often links to proposal or stub pages (like the doctors

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Is there any actual mapper who strictly don't like SA? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain (I reply merely to inform rather than to prolong the debate, as sticking my head into a grinder is already seeming like

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

2010-07-15 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
will be overwhelming. Interesting accusation. Are you accusing all ODbL proponents of having this plan? Or just the LWG? Or do you care to name anyone in particular? Because otherwise your accusations aren't very constructive. The minutes show that Steve Coast, Richard Fairhurst, Mike Collinson

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

2010-07-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Lamping wrote: For example remember positions like Richard Fairhursts in the thread (I know that it's not an official OSMF/LWG position) Of course it isn't. I'm not on the OSMF board let alone LWG; indeed, I actively told OSMF earlier this year that I did not intend to assist it in any

Re: [OSM-talk] Error loading Yahoo-Images in Potlatch

2010-07-14 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Peter Herison wrote: Now the strage part: Closed FF. Cleared browser cache without hope but... After starting FF again, the error-images were gone. I could continue editing like before and see all Yahoo-Images. Even these tiles that has errors before. I tried the same here at home (again)

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

2010-07-13 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I still don't agree with this approach. It doesn't sit with my idea of democracy. When people vote they need to know for what they are voting, and what the cut off marks are considered to be. It's not a vote. It's a request by the OpenStreetMap Foundation for you

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Dave F. wrote: One thing I can't find is GPX tracks (key: G). Has it not been implemented yet or am I going blind? Not yet! It's next on the list. But you can load a GPX from somewhere on the web (Flash permission stuff notwithstanding) using the vector layers stuff in the Background menu.

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 2 Public Alpha

2010-07-12 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: I think the point where it's good enough to start thinking about replacing Potlatch 1 on the edit tab is still a long way off. It's much more likely that, when it moves out of alpha, Potlatch 2 appears and gets used on other sites first since it's much easier to customize.

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