You would need to get approval from the OSMF if you wanted to still keep WhatOSM
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 2:14 PM, PanierAvide <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> > 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/ >> >> 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 >> >> 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/ >> >> If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know :-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Adrien. >> >> -- >> PanierAvide >> Géomaticien & développeur >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > > -- > 外に遊びに行こう！ > > > -- > PanierAvide > Géomaticien & développeur > > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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