Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I'm told there is at least 500 changesets not from OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I find this ironic, if not out right amusing, OSM-F tries to hide any kind of attribution, yet you

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 22:20, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: But I do feel slightly uncomfortable that my edits, which I've now agreed should be licensed under ODbL, can currently be used by fosm to build a CC-by-SA competitor project which aims to divide our community. Erm how is

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:02, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: Nearly all of the data was generated by OpenStreetMap contributors under the OpenStreetMap flag, so I think the attribution should be mostly to OpenStreetMap. For starters you are confusing OSM contributors with OSM-F who

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:27, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: So - what, you're saying we should be doing the whole list-ten-thousand-names-in-the-corner thing? I don't understand - what's your point? My point is, why should other sites be forced into attribution even OSM-F isn't willing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:41, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: So because people have decided to start a voluntary project, they have to be answerable to absolutely everybody... everywhere... ever? No matter how unreasonable or logically warped they are (no names mentioned)? Everyone gets

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:49, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: 2011-06-23 John Smith: Which is derived from OpenStreetMap data. Therefore, the tiles are ultimately derived from OpenStreetMap data, too. Quoting CC BY-SA 2.0: As you said yourself above it's not reasonable to expect a lengthy

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 02:00, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: There are two plausible legal interpretations: - the original author is OpenStreetMap - the original author are a lot of individuals You left off companies that have donated data. No matter which interpretation you choose, your

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 02:36, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Signing your rights away is not necessarily a bad thing. (The FSF asks you to do exactly that when contributing to GNU software projects, for good reasons, though others may rightfully disagree.) 2. Anyway, the OSM CT does

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 04:14, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I pointed this out once and the response was that osm.org doesnt need attribution because there is a logo in the top-left corner. I guess the same logic could be applied here, since the name 'OpenStreetMap' is on the fosm.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 04:43, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: That said, I'm happy about FOSM, if I ever become a resident of the US and that legal opinion on this matter still holds up, I might pull its data and provide it under PD myself. Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 07:39, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Well, it has been stated multiple times that it was a lawyer opinion that Francis Davey, who also claims to be a lawyer, gave an opposite opinion. CC-BY-SA didn't apply to our data, and factual databases aren't protected by Which is a

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 08:49, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb and Arab

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Per discussione John Smith
On 24 June 2011 14:32, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 23:58, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So you quote one line and fail to point out what falsities I'm making. So that is what my message was all about? Thanks for clarifying it to me

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 02:30, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: I appreciate your appeal. In looking through the data it appears a lot of it has sense been field server. Since the original mapper traced the data from imagery. It seems kind of silly for that to cause the data to be deleted.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 02:30, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: I appreciate your appeal. In looking through the data it appears a lot of it has sense been field server. Since the original mapper traced the data from imagery. It seems kind of silly for that to cause the data to be deleted. To

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Per discussione John Smith
On 23 June 2011 03:37, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: Well, in the case of Haiti this is exactly what happened a lot -- with Google's permission, though. Haiti is one small area, most of the time people that copy from google don't have permission. And having said that I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-21 Per discussione John Smith
On 21 June 2011 23:31, Stephen Gower socks-openstreetmap@earth.li wrote: [Sorry to quote so much context - please do scroll down!) On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:16:03AM +0100, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: I think the question being asked arises from the following hypothetical chain of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 19:55, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: I just wanted to make clear that our current data is submitted under CC-BY-SA (at least our community members declares so) but there is absolutely no prove that the data submitted can be CC-BY-SA.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 20:16, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking of the example someone gave or the copyright in sound recordings being separate from the copyright in the music / lyrics, I'm guessing the answer is some sort of combination of 2 and 3; along the lines

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 20:24, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 11:37, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 20:35, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure of you point, since cc-by-sa can't be magically turned into ODBL

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 20:31, Robert Whittaker (OSM) robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com wrote: While person C could indeed get access to the original data (which must be offered by B), in the hypothetical situation I envisaged, they choose not to do so. They obtain the produced work under PD/CC0 or CC-By

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 23:20, andrzej zaborowski balr...@gmail.com wrote: I think what Robert is trying to say is that you only have to check for compatibility with the current license. But the current license is CC-By-SA, so CC-By-SA data would be okay. Since things seem to be going head first

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
I forgot to ask, do SVG files constitute a produced work? The kind OSM.org currently outputs as SVG maps. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 June 2011 00:53, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 19 June 2011 12:31, John Smithdeltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: yet ODBL allows people to output PD tiles, which don't offer attribution. The ODbL requires attribution of the database. The database can contain other attribution.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 June 2011 00:55, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely difficult for them to argue that is a produced work and not a database. That's

[talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
For the longest time it was claimed ODBL would better protect data than CC-by-SA in some jurisdictions, with the US being one of those. However the opposite seems true, since the above claim was based on the premise that creating maps wasn't a creative enterprise. The ODBL doesn't place a limit

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 19:32, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Some of these boundaries have been edited to include highway=* and waterway=* tags (mainly in areas with (at the time) no good imagery). How easy is it to get a list of these ways? Now that better imagery is available, now would

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to map data would potentially be pretty trivial. In other words CC-by-SA protects data better than ODBL. ___

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 June 2011 00:55, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely difficult for them to argue that is a produced work and not a database. That's

Re: [talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
What does it matter since I'm never going to agree to the CT... On 20 June 2011 02:11, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: JohnSmith your four changesets today are missing descriptive changeset comments. http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/JohnSmith/edits The barrier here

Re: [talk-au] ODBL and real life...

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 June 2011 03:12, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: I am sure theortical (and legally risky) loopholes could be found for example as you describe above. We could have contructed painfully A simple admission that the previous email is a valid argument would have sufficed We

Re: [talk-au] JohnSmith edits on 19 June 2011

2011-06-19 Per discussione John Smith
On 20 June 2011 14:49, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Maybe Richard should have asked him privately first - I was mainly responding to John's attitude that it didn't matter. Well, what does it matter now that they're going to start deleting non-CT data? Obviously there had to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 19:22, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: Tiles are clearly *maps* and so protected as artistic works under article 2(1) of the Berne Convention and therefore (one hopes) in every country which is a signatory to Berne which includes the US and the EU. What you can do with

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 19:48, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/6/18 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Well one assumption I'm making is that everyone is adhering to the license restrictions placed on them, perhaps this would be easiler with a solid example. OSM-F continues

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 20:26, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Is this similar?: Andy, in Australia, contributes CC-By or CC-By-SA data to CC-By-SA OpenStreetMap. Perhaps the data is Australian boundaries or something. Betty, in UK, creates CC-By-SA tiles that include that boundary data.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 20:35, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 20:26, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Is this similar?: Andy, in Australia, contributes CC-By or CC-By-SA data to CC-By-SA OpenStreetMap. Perhaps the data is Australian boundaries or something. Betty

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 19 June 2011 03:40, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: What if Betty changes country and decides to reside in France -before- publicating her tiles on a server located in the Bahama's and claiming CC0 ;) It's silly because some people injected a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:06, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 06/17/11 11:18, John Smith wrote: Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial. CC-by-SA makes no such distinction, it's either cc-by-sa or it's not cc-by-sa, so which license can tiles be put under? Sorry, I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:54, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example of patents

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 01:10, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Because you want to sell/offer s service in the EU, enter one of the countries and numerous other reasons. As long as you don't make the derived database available or publish the contents in some form -in- the EU you are not in trouble,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 05:25, davespod osmli...@dellams.fastmail.fm wrote: In a similar vein, I think OSMF and any other publisher of OSM-derived map tiles under CC-by-SA would be well advised to be explicit about what it is they are licensing under CC-by-SA. In other words, they should follow the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: Data from an ODbL database may however be used to create a BY-SA Produced Work. So this means produced works can be traced into a cc-by-sa data set then? ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 06/17/11 16:20, John Smith wrote: Patents don't apply here I am trying to make a general point about the scope of CC licenses, to which the patents example is relevant. Do you or do you not agree, that if a picture

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:32, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 06/17/11 16:06, John Smith wrote: So once again I'm met with silence and can only assume that produced works licensed under cc-by or cc-by-sa can be derived from, Do read the discussions I had with odc-discuss when someone asked

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am not trying to apply patents to OSM. I am trying to use the example of patents to prove to you that your reasoning either something is CC-BY-SA or it isn't is, in this simplicity, invalid; that there may well exist limitations

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 00:50, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Am 17.06.2011 16:39, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: ... 2. What happens if a person in country A with database rights publishes a tileset and licenses it under CC-By-SA to a person in country B without database rights?  The second

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 01:18, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi Frederik, Yes I agree that the arm chair mapping isn't the best method of collection.  Though in some areas it will be difficult to ever have mappers on the ground without imagery.  The cost of a GPS is prohibitive in many

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 01:46, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Let me try copyright-only examples. I can take up the full text of all of the works of William Shakespeare, compile it into a book with annotations, and release the book under CC-BY-SA. Now since the original text by

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 02:26, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you're going to get clear answers about these specific cases. It will take a court decision to provide precedent rulings on such things. Well the copyright side of things seems pretty simple, especially if people

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 June 2011 02:40, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Then you have a whole other argument over what constitutes a produced work and so on. It's a novel concept, to be sure. but if you want to understand

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with

[OSM-talk] Anyone know where this city is?

2011-06-16 Per discussione John Smith
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2501/sancturymap.png Seems to look like an OSM map to me, I don't have access to all credits, so no idea if it was credited or not.. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] Anyone know where this city is?

2011-06-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 June 2011 20:37, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: JohnSmitty wrote: http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/2501/sancturymap.png Seems to look like an OSM map to me, I don't have access to all credits, so no idea if it was credited or not.. I'm pretty sure that's Google Maps in

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Per discussione John Smith
On 17 June 2011 13:19, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: There are numerous programs that exist which show the density of mapping in certain areas.  Maybe it would be useful to find the more heavily mapped areas that dont have coverage? That's making assumptions that larger towns are

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities

2011-06-16 Per discussione John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Coast st...@asklater.com Date: 17 June 2011 07:09 Subject: [OSM-talk] Bing aerial imagery priorities To: t...@openstreetmap.org Hi I'm speaking personally and there are no guarantees here but I'd like to get input on what areas you would like

Re: [OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 June 2011 01:47, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: It's only as the deadline draws near that those in favour of the change are trying to put the blame on the mappers for there potentially being a conflict. I find this irritating. No, this isn't a new thing, this has pretty much

Re: [OSM-talk] Community important, license unimportant

2011-06-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 June 2011 04:54, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: As usual, the majority is right, and the minority (both 20%'s!) are wrong. The question that we need to worry about is not the legal terms of the license, but instead: will changing the license hurt the community more than leaving it

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Per discussione John Smith
On 16 June 2011 15:01, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes

[OSM-talk] Garmin to acquire Navigon

2011-06-14 Per discussione John Smith
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBoyGeniusReport/~3/8nAQktIAPQk/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Per discussione John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz Date: 15 June 2011 06:30 Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-t...@openstreetmap.org As per the implementation plan [1],

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-14 Per discussione John Smith
On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 June 2011 17:07, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Jochen, I see attribution on my browser (bottom left corner).  Rendering is, I think standard mapnik, looks ok to me. Andrew E, did you try my link and zoom over to Korea. I think you'll find all the OSM data there looking

Re: [OSM-talk] Bing Maps are amazing

2011-06-13 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 June 2011 18:01, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: If I recall correctly, the Mapnik “Openstreetmap Mode” requires Silverlight, so the link below might show you a different view if you don’t have it installed. Or perhaps I’m thinking of the Map App, if that is different? I'd forgotten

Re: [OSM-talk] Join the OSMF ! + PD / CC0 projects

2011-06-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 12 June 2011 19:29, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: I'm much more worried about the effects of a fork. If we spend time updating a number of forks, it will detract from time that we could have spent mapping. I was in that frame of thinking 3-6 months ago, but unless something radical

Re: [OSM-talk] Blue color in part of MAP by MAPNIK

2011-06-09 Per discussione John Smith
Did anyone try to mark tiles as dirty, I've done this in the past and it seems to re-render properly, no idea why it occurs or why marking it as dirty fixes things, seems to be inconsistent so might be a mapnik bug. ___ talk mailing list

[talk-au] Free ebooks

2011-06-07 Per discussione John Smith
Earlier this week 4000 academic books were released for free, apparently there is quite a lot of GIS books in the mix: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/slashgeo/~3/j318KMk-yGU/Hundreds-Free-Geospatial-PDF-Books-National-Academies-Press ___ Talk-au

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Per discussione John Smith
On 5 June 2011 21:40, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Nick Hocking wrote: The only way, I see, out of this mess is for me to map a new set of residential roads, using my actual GPS tracks, alongside the nearmapped ones, make then properly routable, and maybe put a layer tag on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Per discussione John Smith
On 5 June 2011 22:35, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, John Smith wrote: He is yet to back up his claims about people using the data I don't think it makes a difference. If I have one set of data with a questionable copyright situation and no street names, and another set

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Per discussione John Smith
On 5 June 2011 22:48, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Where the claim was made has no relevance for my assessment that it does not make a difference. As I said, you tried so hard to word thing to reduce the change of an edit war and now you are cheering some along to do the exact

Re: [OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled

2011-05-26 Per discussione John Smith
On 26 May 2011 18:53, Richard Mann richard.mann.westoxf...@gmail.com wrote: Unless you operate to peculiar safety standards, there'll probably be a stop sign on the track some way either side of the former crossing(probably set for the stopping distance of the heaviest train operating at

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Per discussione John Smith
On 27 May 2011 03:51, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Hi all, Consider the following application scheme: * a twitter user sends a geo-located tweet containing a specified hashtag, say #addosm and key-value pairs like amenity:pub;name:Red Devil;smoking:yes * a twitter scraper picks up

Re: [OSM-talk] anonymous edits

2011-05-26 Per discussione John Smith
On 27 May 2011 04:19, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: Totally anonymous edits existed once in OSM, until 2007. See the first link in my original message (mysteriously not referred to in the message body..hm). They were abandoned for different reasons I believe, the wiki page gives some

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] Open public sector information principles launched [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-26 Per discussione John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au Date: 26 May 2011 15:26 Subject: [Aust-NZ] Open public sector information principles launched [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: OSGeo NZ/AU aust...@lists.osgeo.org Fyi

[talk-au] Redistricting 2.0: Cloud Lets Voters Take Part

2011-05-26 Per discussione John Smith
CWmike writes As the 2010 U.S. census results arrived, Los Angeles County's politicians started ramping up for redistricting — the once-a-decade, computing-intensive, often contentious process of geographically carving up the populace into discrete parcels of voters. In the past, such decisions

Re: [OSM-talk] level_crossing, leveled

2011-05-25 Per discussione John Smith
On 26 May 2011 05:10, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: HI all, What should be done with a level_crossing, when trains may cross no longer? The junction was a level_crossing, but has been repaved and re-sculpted.  The rails are now covered by 0.3 - 0.4 m of asphalt which appears to

[talk-au] Kempsey, NSW

2011-05-25 Per discussione John Smith
There is Bing imagery covering Kempsey, but a distinct lack of mapping, or was before I started adding them, but still plenty to do. I mentioned Tamworth a few weeks ago and within a day or so it had been mapped out extensively from Bing imagery. ___

[talk-au] Rendering your own maps

2011-05-24 Per discussione John Smith
Over the past few days I've been documenting the exact steps needed to setup, run and maintain your own map rendering system. If the area is small enough you can even do it in a virtual machine, and a vmware image will be published at some point so all you need to do is download, run and tell it

[talk-au] 3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man

2011-05-22 Per discussione John Smith
An anonymous reader writes So you have a RC model aircraft snapping digital photos from the air, but how do you organize them all? This cheap cloud service from a European research giant will upload your photos and automatically convert them into 3D models you can navigate like a video game. And

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Per discussione John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:08, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-21 Per discussione John Smith
On 21 May 2011 16:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. Actually gmane.org does a few different options, include a blog like interface... http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.region.au

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-20 Per discussione John Smith
On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the troll

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own wiki page, which I can no longer edit, after I left a note asking people not to edit my wiki page. What bollocks. I added a notice to the *discussion

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-18 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 May 2011 23:12, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 May 2011 14:02, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2011 22:56, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my own wiki page, which I

[talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Per discussione John Smith
It seems if you are on the wining side of an argument you end up blocked, so I'm most likely going to start an aussie wiki and not care about the official wiki ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Per discussione John Smith
Sugar coat it all you want, but what action did you take against anyone else involved? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Wiki censorship

2011-05-17 Per discussione John Smith
On 18 May 2011 06:38, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Set of rules made by one group, complaints handled by same group, prosecution handled by same group, judgement made by same group, punishment handled by same group. Grant has absolutely no respect for user wishes, he's defaced my

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Per discussione John Smith
On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines and switching tracks are mapped so accurately people were suggesting to those

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping - nearly up-to-date.

2011-05-09 Per discussione John Smith
On 9 May 2011 01:28, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: These current edits are of value to OSM, newly developed roads in developing suburbs ('some of which already have people living on them'). How can newly developed roads be mapped from Bing?

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-09 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 May 2011 17:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date Canberra data could have been *extremely*

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping - nearly up-to-date.

2011-05-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 8 May 2011 21:41, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: As usual - non trolls are welcome to let me know if I've missed anything (or made some mistakes). So people asking difficult, but honest questions are labelled trolls so you don't have to answer? All this looks like is vandalism

[talk-au] Queensland border and the MacIntyre River...

2011-05-08 Per discussione John Smith
The south bank of the main stream of the Murray River is the NSW/Vic border, but does anyone know where the NSW border lies with respect the MacIntyre River? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Queensland border and the MacIntyre River...

2011-05-08 Per discussione John Smith
On 9 May 2011 13:39, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: I'd say the centre of the main channel as the only sign I've ever seen there is half way across a bridge. The bridge at Texas has the sign on the southern side of the bridge, but the 'Welcome to Qld/NSW' sign is on the northern side.

[talk-au] Tom Tom selling customer data to the police in .au as well

2011-05-08 Per discussione John Smith
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/08/tom_tom_oz_data_to_cops/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-06 Per discussione John Smith
On 6 May 2011 22:16, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: The alternative would be to continue using CC-BY-SA in the face of objections, and continue to misleading users about the effectiveness of the license. Still this sad tired old line, please come up with new FUD to keep things

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-05 Per discussione John Smith
On 6 May 2011 15:25, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: has no clothes, and there are no little kids around to say Gee, this relicensing thing ... maybe it's not such a good idea? Plenty of people have been pointing this out, but those that should be listening aren't and as a result OSM has

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] LINZ survey

2011-05-05 Per discussione John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alister Hood alister.h...@synergine.com Date: 5 May 2011 11:58 Subject: [Aust-NZ] LINZ survey To: OSGeo NZ/AU aust...@lists.osgeo.org, nzopen...@googlegroups.com Hi everyone, First, apologies if you get this twice because you’re on both lists. I

Re: [talk-au] Reassurance and Licensing

2011-05-04 Per discussione John Smith
It's such a shame that your high regard for diverse opinions only seem to matter if they match yours. On 5/4/11, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 20:40, Tim Challis tim.chal...@gmail.com wrote: Sarcasm aside. I am quite happy to go along with Liz' pronunciations to date.

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag touristic street roads

2011-05-02 Per discussione John Smith
On 2 May 2011 15:56, Gregor Horvath gre...@ediwo.com wrote: Hello, I could not find a wiki page nor relevant data on how to tag a touristic relevant road. There is the scenic=yes tag, but maybe only a part of the touristic road is scenic but the whole road (relation) may be of touristic

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