Thanks for pointing this out. I'm clearly not an expert of legal issues,
so the following may probably not make sense.
<developer nonsense>
The goal of this tool is to help new contributors, and making them more
easily start contributing to OSM. If we give it an obscure name, not
referring to OSM, then where is the link between this tool and OSM ? I
understand legal issues, but I hope that we don't loose of sight that we
are a community project, and we need some form of cohesion. Our tools
don't share so much except that they edit OSM data or help people doing
so. According to this policy, JOSM should have been named instead "Java
Editor for you-know-which-map-I'm-talking-about" ? Doesn't make sense to me.
However, if there is a way to keep the name and sign some sort of
contract, implying that I will not misuse the name or so, no problem,
that would be fair. But let's keep the fun in creating tools for OSM,
and not being able to name it using OSM is clearly boring plus
misleading for users.
</developer nonsense>
Thanks for reading this nonsense, I'm totally open to find a way to
solve this potential naming issue, if someone can give me some hints
about it, it would be great.
Regards,
Adrien.
Le 21/09/2017 à 19:53, James a écrit :
You might want to reconsider the name as you started this project 2
weeks ago and XYZosm or osmXYZ or OpenXYZMap are "copyrighted" and
goes against the new usage policy.
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 1:45 PM, PanierAvide <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
As you may know, OSM has a whole set of tools allowing various
thematic editing and contribution. Every contributor can find
something to do, however when you are new to this world, you don't
where these tools are and which one is made for you.
In order to make it easier discovering contribution tools, and
find the ones according to what you want to work on, I made a
little web guide named WhatOSM. When answering three questions
(level of difficulty, available time and if you are
indoors/outdoors), you have a list of corresponding tools. You can
try it here :
http://projets.pavie.info/whatosm/
<http://projets.pavie.info/whatosm/>
It can be used by new contributors, but also more experimented
ones, who don't know what to do anymore in their neighbourhood. It
might be interested to show this to people when doing mapping
parties. User interface works as well on desktop as on smartphone.
This project is open source and is available on this repository :
https://framagit.org/PanierAvide/WhatOSM
<https://framagit.org/PanierAvide/WhatOSM>
You can contribute to it by proposing tools which allow
contributing more or less directly to OpenStreetMap. Also, if you
speak English + another language, you can help translating the
application :
https://www.transifex.com/openlevelup/whatosm/
<https://www.transifex.com/openlevelup/whatosm/>
If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know :-)
Regards,
Adrien.
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