Re: [OSM-talk] Is Xapi working?

2009-06-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
Lennard wrote: Maarten Deen wrote: The server running the xapi service is down at the moment. Any info on what the problem is and when it's going to be resolved? And what is the status of the other two XAPI servers? Bearstech seems to be perpetually testing, and xapi.openstreetmap still

Re: [OSM-talk] Wanted feature for API 0.7 ??

2009-06-10 Thread Stefan de Konink
hanoj wrote: I have idea about relative positioned node on the line (crossing, bus_stop, railway stops) object with no direct relation to geometry, but with topology relation. Currently I describe it even in a step further. Imagine that you could contraint lines based on these properties; for

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-06-12 Thread Stefan de Konink
Peter Miller wrote: What resources would be required to 'do it right'? Is it worth doing that? Are there a group of people who want to do so? We are currently under the flag of openstreetphoto flying with Mikrokopters and Canon camera's to maken new aerial photography released under

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-06-12 Thread Stefan de Konink
Peter Miller wrote: Great stuff. Is it planned that this can be used as a DB of aerial photography from other sources such as private planes or authorities (just so long as the photography is released on a suitable license)? My main problem with OpenAerialMap was that nobody responded to my

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
Eric Pritchett wrote: I'm sure there are more advantages, There is; there is no trade mark on the name :) Stefan ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
SteveC wrote: On 16 Jun 2009, at 09:51, Stefan de Konink wrote: Eric Pritchett wrote: I'm sure there are more advantages, There is; there is no trade mark on the name :) There isn't on openstreetmap either. Ok, the first time they refused it: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/domestic?domesticnum

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
SteveC wrote: Wrong again. The ™ was applied for the logo and the name So 'mark' means to me 'name' so OpenStreetMap was protected if it was granted, yes? in the UK and Europe and the Foundation owns the whole problem, not me. I thought you did 'something' in the foundation too ;)

Re: [OSM-talk] openmaps.org

2009-06-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
SteveC wrote: Next I'm going to wake up in the morning and you'll be outside my house, stalking me :-O Not to worry, Saturday we started a project to have the Chamber of Commerce in The Netherlands to be open 24x7 (like your patent office they close at night). I have already 1544818 persons

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 08 videos

2009-06-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Arlindo Pereira wrote: Maybe not the appropriate thread for that, but we could stream the SOTM 09 videos with an Symbian S60 phone (such as N95) with Qik (http://qik.com/). The software streams video in high quality, so everyone can watch them

Re: [OSM-talk] Thousands of small changesets by Tim Proegler

2009-06-25 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Tom Hughes wrote: ...and that it would be better to group them into a small number of changesets instead of creating one for each node. It would be even better if the software that managed the backend would do it automatically :) Now the editor is blamed for bad

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/6/13 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: Also - Is OpenStreetPhoto going to be usable for storage of ground level photos of junctions, bridges etc which can be useful for photo route planning or not. The name you have

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jonathan Bennett wrote: Thomas Schäfer wrote: No, the answer was not satisfying. What part of it's not under our control didn't you understand? Set up a SixXS tunnel and have fun :) Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jonathan Bennett wrote: Stefan de Konink wrote: Set up a SixXS tunnel and have fun :) Great idea! How long do you think it will take you? For me probably about an hour if Jeroen is online ;) Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Frederik Ramm wrote: Thomas Schäfer wrote: Discussions about Ipv6 is not wasted hot air. It is related to osm, because osm should be based on it, but isn't. It shoud simply be done, then is no further discussion about it. Let's be pragmatic

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-02 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: Thomas Schäfer schrieb: It is probably a moot point anyway because, as someone else pointed out, either UCL does it or they don't and we would be the last ones to raise a fuss with them over anything. You don't want

Re: [OSM-talk] Making an offline OpenStreetMap CD/DVD ?

2009-07-02 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John Smith wrote: Or you could use some binary format that reduces all the bloating produced by xml. ...or database [files] as Rory McCann suggested, for direct usage. Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC wrote: On 2 Jul 2009, at 08:57, Tom Hughes wrote: Thomas Schäfer wrote: sorry the theme is for the most of the people off topic. They use the application osm via internet. But the fundament of the internet (its protocol) is

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John Smith wrote: --- On Fri, 3/7/09, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: then you win. If you want to win, all you have to do according to a previous poster is draw up a migration plan for OSM. As mentioned in the serious post before

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jonathan Bennett wrote: John Smith wrote: I'm still scratching my head as to why this isn't possible to be honest. It's possible, but it appears the people who think it's so important just want to sit on their arses and have someone else do

Re: [OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

2009-07-03 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Aun Yngve Johnsen wrote: An implementation of the protocol for both the wiki and OSM in general would mean that OSM coverage will be virtually global, and no longer depending on broadband connections. I wonder what the RTT would be from

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John McKerrell wrote: Next week I'm giving a talk about OpenStreetView at the State of the Map conference. One of the things I want to do with the project is try to host all of the photographs that people take while they're out mapping. I

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 malenki wrote: John McKerrell wrote: Next week I'm giving a talk about OpenStreetView at the State of the Map conference. One of the things I want to do with the project is try to host all of the photographs that people take while they're out

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping Photos

2009-07-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi John! John McKerrell wrote: What I've been concentrating on is the storing and managing of the photos. Ok :) I don't mind who does it ;) as long as it gets done. I had seen openstreetphoto and saw that you had looked at this but I thought

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-07-06 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Valent Turkovic wrote: I'm really impressed with what you have done, it is amazing! Thanks :D I honestly don't know if it is sarcasm or not :D How can others who wish to join start contributing aerial photos? I think the best would be to submit rectified photo's with a

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-07-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:33:05 +0200 (CEST), Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: n others who wish to join start contributing aerial photos? I think the best would be to submit rectified photo's

Re: [OSM-talk] Is OpenAerialMap service dead?

2009-07-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: So, how do you rectify your photos? Hugin is very capable of doing it now; but we are actually planning to extend it to make a more user friendly interface. I tried to find a way quite a while ago but could

Re: [OSM-talk] Launching bestofosm.org

2009-07-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jochen Topf wrote: Great suggestion. Just added it. :-) I would like to mention something that had big coverage aswell before: The Dutch (Amsterdam) Zoo, Artis. http://bestofosm.org/?type=Mapniklon=4.91619lat=52.36590zoom=17 Stefan -BEGIN

[OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

2009-07-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC wrote: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2009-July/049514.html I'm not going to apply on talk-de to tell you this: inventing nodes, ways, segments (remember them?) You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

2009-07-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC wrote: You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give credit to the original inventor Stan Aronoff, in Geographic information systems: A management perspective (1989). Well i never read it and they're kind of trivial. That was

Re: [OSM-talk] SteveC; C = Cool

2009-07-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Matt Amos wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Stefan de Koninkste...@konink.de wrote: SteveC wrote: inventing nodes, ways, segments (remember them?) You *did not* invent the spaghetti model, please give credit to the original inventor Stan Aronoff, in Geographic

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping party suggestion for SOTM

2009-07-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: So here's hoping that SOTM visitors to Amsterdam will be able to rectify this situation. Sadly(?) the city of Amsterdam is about to close virtually the entire redlight district... so I guess it would be a historic

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.1

2009-07-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: Neither the page on openstreetphoto.org nor http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetPhoto gives any detail about how us, the community can add photos to this database. :') Maybe you could look back in your

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.1

2009-07-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/7/16 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: Neither the page on openstreetphoto.org nor http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetPhoto gives any detail about how us, the community

Re: [OSM-talk] Potlatch 1.1

2009-07-16 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Shaun McDonald wrote: Can you please place information on the above wiki page on how to do that with all the glory details, rather than having people rely on searching through their mail archives, if they are subscribed to the mailing list.

Re: [OSM-talk] Building bridges: Kaliningrad mapping party?

2009-07-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Laurence Penney wrote: I was recently in Kaliningrad[1], where I had the opportunity to inspect its seven bridges[2], the conundrum surrounding which, solved by Euler, kicked off topology. Much to my dismay I found that two of the bridges - numbers 3 and 4 if you start

Re: [OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

2009-07-30 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Ian Dees wrote: That's why Google uses high-res digital video cameras running on Firewire on their rigs. I was more expecting the Elphel board design ;) Using 20MP kodak's CCDs like they use in their book digitizing stuff. Stefan

Re: [OSM-talk] Photos

2009-07-31 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Tristan Thomas wrote: Is there any method of adding photos etc. to OSM like there is for Google Maps. For instance, if you navigate to somewhere on Google Maps, it comes up with user submitted geo-tagged photos. Is there anything similar for OSM? If not, should there

Re: [OSM-talk] radioactivity

2009-08-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: Forgive my scientific ignorance, but are actual measurements even static enough - I mean, if I measure radiation X at a certain place, is there reason to believe that it will (in the absence of catastrophic events) be more or less unchanged one month

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Turn on the Yahoo imagery, align the start and end points of the way, and select the 'Tidy' function. Hey presto, the street is now correctly aligned to the grid. You could have done this manually, but it would have taken 10 times as long and

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Stefan de Konink wrote: And then you realise that the alignment of Yahoo Imagery is wrong on most places, and you have killed good vector material. Great job :) Good vector material? Tell me, have you ever _seen_ TIGER? Yes, and I have also

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Assuming that yahoo is wrong, at least it will be consistently wrong and it's trivially to mass move ways when you do get reference points to re-align the data to. Moving stuff in GIS is never trivial. You don't know why it is wrong, and even if it looks

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote: How does your town compare to Yahoo? It seems to have an offset in both X and Y. But I can only see that locally. I don't know if there is a more global problem. I have only heard of trival shifts in the rectification being a problem. I think it

Re: [OSM-talk] to all potlatch and JOSM users - automatic simplification of geometry

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: You get 4 or more points on the ground by GPS and you align to that, I meant suburb level, not an entire city or states or countries. Already saw an OSM editor supporting realigning Yahoo Imagery based on existing points? Stefan

Re: [OSM-talk] Building floor plans

2009-08-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, noh way jose wrote: Has this been done/suggested yet? I know it is been discussed, but it is only limited by your client. A client should be able to do something like Xapi, selecting only a specific layer, with dynamic filtering. This would be great for all other sorts of

Re: [OSM-talk] Status of the Local Chapter working group

2009-08-13 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Nick Black wrote: * Give potential Local Chapter leaders and other community members the change to discuss the proposed agreement My biggest concern now is the mixture of not-for-profit and democratically lead organisation. It is a big concern for me that the actual

Re: [OSM-talk] DraganFly RC helicopters

2009-08-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
Erik Lundin schreef: I know RC helicopters as potential aerial photo source has been discussed before, but today I read about some helicopter from DraganFly and didn't find anything about them on the lists. They seem to be very interesting for our purposes. http://www.draganfly.com/

Re: [OSM-talk] DraganFly RC helicopters

2009-08-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SLXViper schreef: This won't happen if you develop your own one ;) We started with two and half Mikrokopter; the arrogance that we have faced in that project. Unbelievable. Now we are facing something real; Quadcopters are relatively great for in

Re: [OSM-talk] DraganFly RC helicopters

2009-08-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SLXViper schreef: Stefan de Konink wrote: SLXViper schreef: This won't happen if you develop your own one ;) We started with two and half Mikrokopter; the arrogance that we have faced in that project. Unbelievable. Additionally, mikrokopter

Re: [OSM-talk] DraganFly RC helicopters

2009-08-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Erik Lundin schreef: I don't really understand what you mean by open source here. If you buy an RC helicopter, aren't you free to do whatever you want with it? Typically an RC helicopter is not really what you want when you are flying to make

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-17 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Erik Johansson e...@kth.se wrote: Anyways I was pointed to a camera that records your journey. http://technabob.com/blog/2009/08/12/selfic-cube-7100-car-black-box-recorder/ Is 640x480 good enough? ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;)

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-17 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Erik Johansson wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:35 PM, OJ Wojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm just looking at ways of getting video-camera data into openstreetview http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Georeference_video

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-17 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Elena of Valhalla wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stefan de Koninkste...@konink.de wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Is 640x480 good enough? ;) ofcourse we want 1080p ;) is 640x480 good enough e.g to read street names and other signs? Signs yes,

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Erik Johansson schreef: Have you guys tried to take photos of signs with street names? We a lot of photos of that :) Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 si...@mungewell.org schreef: Using a decent mount (ie. DIY steady cam ideas) and in-built image stablization in the camera may help. Check also the ContourHD camera :) We are also experimenting with that. Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 si...@mungewell.org schreef: Check also the ContourHD camera :) We are also experimenting with that. Looks pretty sweet shame it doesn't have an external MIC input for recording (FSK'ed) telemetery data such as speed/lat/log/ele/etc. If

Re: [OSM-talk] Video inputs to OpenStreetView

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 si...@mungewell.org schreef: From the Firewire camera link... -- A last thing you might consider: CMOS sensors (and some CCD but it is less efficient) have selectable 'regions of interrest' (ROI). This can increase the framerate dramatically

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC End: signFinder

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Körner schreef: Whooohoow this is so cool! Looks like a lot of Voodoo to me :) As I saw from the samples It doesn't work well on blurred images, so it won't work with sth. like a helmet or a car camera, would it? Camera's are not by

Re: [OSM-talk] GSoC End: signFinder

2009-08-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kev js1982 wrote: Round here (south Nottingham, uk) black on white, with post codes and council name in red. In the city itself most are black on white, with some old ones white on black. Could anyone that actually knows `localized' streetsigns maybe provide them lets say

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Data Used in Upcoming Monopoly Game

2009-09-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jennifer Campbell schreef: If this can be done with OSM data, would it be possible to create a Transport Tycoon type game along similar lines? Create bus routes and run trains, boats, trucks along real streets? The only thing that I doubt

Re: [OSM-talk] Reconstructing 3-d buildings from photographs

2009-09-17 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ed Avis schreef: This is some interesting work from Microsoft Research, taking photos on Flickr and processing them to create three-dimensional models of buildings and cities. http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/ And again not a line of source

Re: [OSM-talk] Own aerial photos

2009-09-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bev M Ewen-Smith schreef: I am hoping to take my own vertical/near-vertical aerial photos. Assuming that I can georeference them, what do I need to do to get them to show up under Potlach so that I can trace from them? For tracing and

Re: [OSM-talk] nginx and mod_tile

2009-10-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
NL is running on Cherokee, we have a 404 script that communicates with renderd. I guess this can be used by lighttpd and nginx too. Stefan Op 1 okt 2009 om 03:58 heeft John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\ 2009/10/1 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org: hi, I

Re: [OSM-talk] nginx and mod_tile

2009-10-01 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John Smith schreef: 2009/10/1 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: NL is running on Cherokee, we have a 404 script that communicates with renderd. I guess this can be used by lighttpd and nginx too. URL? I tried to code something similar like

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-28 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Valent Turkovic wrote: http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=40148 what to do with OSM mappers like these guys in this post? They say that they are using Google Earth images :( In some countries factual information is a legal source for derived data. Stefan

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-28 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Dave F. wrote: Do you have a list of countries where this is possible? No list; but this paper will enlight you ;) http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051context=library_papers So, are you saying that someone in Canada for instance could trace areas

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan de Konink
At the GSoC there was a clear opening. Will pursue this when I'll feel better. Stefan Op 29 okt 2009 om 12:05 heeft John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven:\ 2009/10/29 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@au-kbc.org: look, a few days back someone (I think it was Richard

Re: [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-10-29 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/30 Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de: At the GSoC there was a clear opening. Will pursue this when I'll feel better. It seems to me that Google prefers it a bit grey when it comes to their suppliers, so I'm not sure you'll end up

Re: [OSM-talk] Tile Cache Time

2009-11-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 bernhard schreef: Thanks for the hint. The problem now is, that iPhone ignores Cache-Control. :-( Maybe complaining at Apple helps, or just installing another browser :) Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [OSM-talk] Offline Dump of the Wiki

2009-11-17 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Tom Hughes wrote: What does our backup strategy have to do with the question of whether or not it's a good idea to mirror the wiki with wget? For what it's worth, the wiki is backed up nightly to a separate physical location. Can we get a url to wget the nightly backup

Re: [OSM-talk] more accurate open-source gps hardware

2009-11-22 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, frank mohr wrote: The price is about 100 euro (using an existing GPS receiver): Homegrown Arduino Clone about 20.00 euro ADXL345 - Triple Axis Accelerometer 24.95 euro IDG300 - Dual Axis Gyro56.00 euro I think if you do the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 James Livingston schreef: For example, I have inferred road positions from the CC-BY-licensed Queensland DCDB-lite dataset, and have uploaded national park and world-heritage areas from the CC-BY dataset on data.australia.gov.au. As I'm not the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Frederik Ramm schreef: And there's a review in Dutch by an Internet lawyer of which I cannot say whether it's good or bad: http://blog.iusmentis.com/2009/07/15/open-source-databanken-de-opendatabanklicentie-versie-10 I can... before Arnoud

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Of course they said that, they only support PD-like licenses *as a policy*. What a non-sense, every academic works with attribution of past work. Including attribution in testsets and data being available. You are getting a bit

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Matt Amos schreef: we're talking about moving to another license with very similar requirements, but a different implementation, and that's not open and free anymore? it would really help me if i could understand your position. Its honestly

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Matt Amos schreef: 1) continue to use a license which legal experts seem to agree doesn't work for us. 2) move to a new license. option (2) will likely mean that some data is lost and i don't think option (1) is what people really want. which

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Lambertus schreef: Sorry, but I don't see a lot of OSM people going over to 'the dark side'. No matter how good or bad OSM is being run. If I don't agree with how things are being done here at OSM then I'll try to fix it, work around it or

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Maarten Deen schreef: You cannot see the process how Cloudmade, Geofabrik and others process their data. You do not get anything back from how companies that use OSM for visual representation. And if Google offers OSM in GoogleEarth and maps you

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Anthony schreef: There's nothing stopping them from putting the tile servers behind a restrictive TOS, requiring a key to use the API, and limiting the number of accesses per key, is there? Is there for Cloudmade? The routing api, their custom

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Anthony schreef: You're confusing me with Lambertus. I never said anything good about Cloudmade. I'm not confusing you; it is current practice that the data is used. I thought that was a /good/ thing. At least I came here for the usage of data

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Lambertus schreef: I have no problems with Google using my data, but only if others can use it too, which means that the database should be accessible (the planet dump). Your contributions are PD, which goes ever further, so you agree with this?

Re: [OSM-talk] New OpenStreetMap iPhone Editor - Mapzen POI Collector

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Peter Körner schreef: Well TRAPI already exists for the purpose of providing efficient read only access to the data for an area. From the TRAPI wiki page: Trapi does not store all tags, so Trapi data should not be used to edit and

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You cannot see the process how Cloudmade, Geofabrik and others process their data. Well the huge difference is that OSM is under a reciprocal license, What a difficult set of words were that; honestly never heard of those

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: I have no idea what that means. I had no idea about reciprocal license either. Ask Google. It might have something to do with the fact that they want to own all the data. Hint hint. I have asked Google; Tim was sitting there

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: I think that developing their own tools, infrastructure, branding, product management... for MapMaker might give away what they think about that. I think you are a little bit biased. Only a little bit :) And if this is/becomes

Re: [OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

2009-12-07 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Frederik Ramm schreef: Totally true, and actually a good argument for the PD case. Anyone who takes OSM data and improves it privately is likely to to invest much more in tracking OSM than it would cost him to just release his data into OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: doesn't apply to Geodata. Because...? Factual data. What you are attempting to enforce is the viral effect, which directly is what you also try to overcome... Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: So I can't license data because it's factual? You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license for what you couldn't /copyright/ in the first place is not an analogy of GPL vs BSD. Anyway, back on planet Earth,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: SteveC schreef: So I can't license data because it's factual? You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license for what you couldn't /copyright/ in the first place is not an analogy of GPL vs BSD. Why not?

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Anyone that traces their trails might think this action is creative. If that was as creative as writing a computer program or an algorithm[1] that did this for you... then one probably understand that one is not making a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I want it to be SA. The legal points you make are just supporting cases that you're cherry picking to help

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:50 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: You asked why it doesn't work, and there is a wealth of information on the list and the wiki... There are a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? to do what, relicense? Exactly; if

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that CC-BY-SA won't hold ;) Especially related some recent cases over here with the claim This was our intention the intention for OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Frederik, Frederik Ramm schreef: Stefan de Konink wrote: Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data today as ODbL, and wait to get sued

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that CC

Re: [OSM-talk] Google launches Indigenous Mapping workshop

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
Op 23-12-09 21:35, Roy Wallace schreef: Via http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/12/indigenous-mapping-new-google.html Google and the Indigenous Mapping Network are teaming up to put on a two day workshop on the Google campus to teach people from native communities how to use Google's

Re: [OSM-talk] Host free ortophotos to be used on OSM

2010-01-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, enqd wrote: I would like to ask if OSM or anyone can host this images to be used on OSM. The images are here: ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/mapas/ortofoto/ Will be great to Brazilian users if we have this images as base to add streets and places on OSM. Hope someone can host

Re: [OSM-talk] Unions seem to be complaining about potential job losses if OS data is given away for free..

2010-01-09 Thread Stefan de Konink
Op 10-01-10 05:30, John Smith schreef: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4826436.New_threat_to_jobs_at_Southampton_s_Ordnance_Survey/ Sounds like the OS didn't have a RD department nor a business department. If your entire operation is based around we do something, you can buy it, then any

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