Can you please upload somewhere and post link here? Thank you!
Darjan Prtic 2011/5/25 Bojana Borkovic <lunacy...@gmail.com> > @Darjan > > We've already done that, I think over a month ago or even more. We've > visited the tourist bureau, gathered all the brochurs and maps, scanned > everything and sent it to Vedran Omeragic. > > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Darjan Prtic <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> @Dejan >> Great work. Looks really nice atm. >> >> @Philip Hands >> Localteam members from Banjaluka mentioned something about having map from >> local tourist office with much more details and markings. We could use those >> markings and update OSM based on that info. I wouldn't mind working few >> hours on that cuz that stays for later use by anyone, not just DebConf. >> >> It would be nice if Bojana or Zlatan(whoever has that tourist office map) >> to scan it and upload it here so we can at least check markings and have a >> clue what you were talking about when you mentioned that map. >> >> Sorry guys that we are black hole on google and bing maps. >> >> Darjan Prtic >> >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:10, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 25 May 2011 10:07:11 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> >>> wrote: >>> > On 11-05-24 at 10:26pm, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >>> > > One of our local team members from Tuzla (Dejan Marjanovic) did >>> > > amazing job on working out the travel details on how to to get to >>> > > Banja Luka. >>> > > >>> > > Please check www.DebConf11.com as it's one stop "shop" for all >>> > > information regarding needed information to get to Banja Luka, your >>> > > stay there and eventual departure. >>> > >>> > Wauw! >>> > >>> > Is that website a Free Software project? I would be interested in >>> > looking closer at both the design of the site (e.g. look at applying >>> > Kalle's Debian design using Sass), and the data points (e.g. juggling >>> > with OpenStreetMap and RDF). >>> >>> I'm somewhat suspicious of the provenance of that map, given the lack of >>> any copyright notice. >>> >>> Picking an area almost at random (I actually chose Frana Supila on the >>> JPG on the basis that it was an unusual shape) I thought I'd compare it >>> with openstreetmap, and found that it was this bit: >>> >>> >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.78067&lon=17.21028&zoom=17&layers=M >>> >>> which, when I looked at it, was missing most of Frana Supila as shown on >>> the JPG. >>> >>> That being the case, I thought I'd check what the Bing imagery is >>> like -- it's very high res, so I traced in the roads for this little >>> area, so by the time you look at it, it may well have a load of >>> residential roads and tracks there, rather than whitespace. >>> >>> Doing this demonstrated that the JPG map is about as partial as OSM was >>> for that area -- it is missing the exit from Bulevar Srpske Vojske onto >>> Frana Suplia, for instance. >>> >>> The difference being that in the mean time, I've fixed that bit of OSM. >>> >>> As mentioned (repeatedly) on IRC, can we have map data with a decent >>> provenance, where the data is properly licensed such that if any of it's >>> better than OSM, we can merge them. >>> >>> For instance, I know that webarto on IRC said that the POI information >>> was fine, but I got the slight impression that he (she?) allows >>> enthusiasm to overcome such details -- what is the copyright situation >>> on those POIs -- are they unencumbered enough to include into OSM? >>> >>> There was something about them having been prepared for Garmin. If that >>> was a work for hire, normal copyright law would make them Garmin's >>> property. >>> >>> Anyway, as stated already, we should use OSM, and in areas where locals >>> react to that by saying "but look, it's wrong over here" then they >>> should be encouraged to sign up with an OSM account, and edit it. Given >>> that the hi-res imagery is available, and Potlach2 runs in any >>> Flash-able browser (mouse-over the edit button, and take the second >>> option of the drop-down menu) there's not much excuse for not just >>> fixing it -- especially since the best alternative we have is also >>> wrong, and is _not_ easily fixed. >>> >>> BTW How many times is this going to have to be repeated before it's >>> listened to? Let's try stating it as an ultimatum: >>> >>> We cannot have the Debian name associated with data of dubious >>> provenance and/or licensing, so if it's a choice between having no >>> map, or a map that was "found" somewhere, we'll have no map. >>> >>> (of course, since OSM is about as good as the map you're using, this >>> should not arise, but what of the POIs?) >>> >>> Having said all that, as I've also said before: Good Effort :-) >>> >>> Cheers, Phil. >>> -- >>> |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ >>> |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ >>> |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Debconf11-localteam mailing list >>> debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org >>> http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf11-localteam >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Debconf11-localteam mailing list >> debconf11-localt...@lists.debconf.org >> http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf11-localteam >> >> > > > -- > Bojana Borković aka Lunacy > bojanaborkovic.net > >
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