Re: [OSM-talk] [HOT] Fw: Disaster Preparedness Project

2011-06-07 Per discussione Tim McNamara
Hi all, Lots of time was spent in late Feburary early March in NZ to produce printable maps from OSM/Ushahidi for Christchurch residents without power. It would be great to recycle this energy. Tim McNamara Professional \\ paperlessprojects.com Personal \\ @timClicks http://twitter.com

Re: [OSM-talk] Adding the full name of a business

2010-09-28 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 29 September 2010 07:31, Niklas Cholmkvist towards...@gmail.com wrote: I'm afraid that privacy laws will be breached if I put in the name tag like this: name=John Johnson - Dentist or name=Jeff Jefferson - Otolaryngologist. I once did that, and my friend was so alarmed when she saw my

Re: [OSM-talk] Culvert and average contributor

2010-08-26 Per discussione Tim McNamara
This is how I understand culvert, from New Zealand. Although I've rarely heard sewer tunnel, it's just sewer. Tim. On 27 August 2010 06:29, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: The term culvert is also standard usage in American English. Tunnel is generally used to mean an underground

Re: [OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

2010-08-11 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 12 August 2010 00:26, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: But Steve C. is going on about banning people purely for posting more messages than others, *even* if they're are on topic. This is unacceptable. No, it's not. If someone is being really difficult, then they distract everybody.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap.js redistribution

2010-08-09 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 10 August 2010 10:10, arno a...@renevier.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to include OpenStreetMap.js file in my website, whose sources are published under agpl: http://www.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js I really dislike the idea of using javascript hosted on another server, so I

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-07 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 8 July 2010 14:29, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2010 00:29, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: 2 Part answer: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/556706 Aotearoa is used because it is the default name if it can't find a

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-16 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 17 June 2010 03:47, Frank Sautter openstreet...@sautter.com wrote: WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin Is the license attribution they are using OK? I think it depends on whether you can seperate the map that Wolfram|Alpha have created from

Re: [OSM-talk] WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data

2010-06-16 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 17 June 2010 10:00, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Tim McNamara wrote: The whole thing creates a single creative work. The term single creative work is not used in the CC license text. Displaying OSM content and other content side-by-side does not form a work derived from

[OSM-talk] SahanaCamp and Workshop - July 2010 - Delhi, India

2010-06-02 Per discussione Tim McNamara
be interested in collaborating. My best, Tim McNamara -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Howden michael.how...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:20 PM Subject: [Sahana-user] SahanaCamp and Workshop - July 2010 - Delhi, India To: sahana-u...@lists.sourceforge.net, Sahana

Re: [OSM-talk] Software goes on, brain goes off...

2010-05-31 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 1 June 2010 09:23, Nakor nakor@gmail.com wrote: On 5/31/2010 4:36 PM, John Smith wrote: Her lawyers claim Google is liable because it did not warn her that the route would not offer a safe place for a pedestrian to walk. Did Google add their notice after the fact? *Walking

Re: [OSM-talk] volcano craters in auckland - possibly out of copyright map

2010-05-20 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 20 May 2010 16:57, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: i found a map on wikipedia from 1859, which i would assume makes it out of copyright and thus far game for copying data into osm Fairly safe, in NZ copyright lasts until 50 years after the death of the author. [1] You're

Re: [OSM-talk] offer of 20m contour data

2010-03-17 Per discussione Tim McNamara
Robin - I would love to get my hands on this to support emergency management response. I'm part of the Sahana project, which provides open source disaster planning response tools.. you can read more about the NZ efforts here: http://bit.ly/nz-sahana-cluster Cheers, Tim. On 18 March 2010 10:24,

[OSM-talk] Sahana Chile 2010 - Instance live on standby

2010-02-28 Per discussione Tim McNamara
Hi all, http://chile.sahanafoundation.org/ is live. We are looking forward to serving up your maps proving them as GPX files for field responders to download to their GPS units. Kind regards, Tim McNamara ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Are Yahoo street maps legal? (as JOSM WMS layer via desktopwms)

2010-02-28 Per discussione Tim McNamara
On 28 February 2010 08:56, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.com wrote: On 27/02/2010 09:31, Valent Turkovic wrote: I was hoping that Yahoo has their own maps and that we could use them. Whatever the legality, I can't see the point in making a map which is simply a copy of someone else's.