On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:46 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/10/5 jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com>: >> I want to say that header files and lists of field names are not >> covered by copyright in general. >> we could fight over textual descriptions, but the list of tages and >> basic information is not seen as a copyright-able information. >> Otherwise you would never be able to use a header file for programming. >> mike > > > I'm pretty sure that the complete system of OSM tagging (the OSM > ontology) is covered by copyright (hence cc-by-sa) . This is not about > "header files" IMHO. > > cheers, > Martin >
Yup, Which is why it's better to be updating the wiki instead of the chart i made. The chart is usefull as a handy reference and has the ability to extract and sort text out of it, and create an actual pdf catelogue out of it. I'll be reviewing the wiki map features again in a month or so, as im sure it will be improved. By sorting the chart by key/value/description/render samples etc. It makes it easy to see where the gaps and inconsistencies are. (im also including a new column for 'notes' to help with ideas to fix the wiki) For the other map feature charts that im making, im simply converting the information from the source into this chart format. ... and listing the most appropriate OSM tag that is recommended to be used for each map feature. The CanVec set of map features is already complete, as well as the linz and USGS and most of the TIGER features, as well as most of the standard garmin features. So with the mapnik features, and potlatch, cyclemap, osmarender, hikebikemap, josm features, im also making that into organized spreadsheet format, as a way to easily sort and figure out where the inconsistencies are across each feature ontology/schema So hopefully, for each osm-wiki page, it will get slowely fixed, so then it will be able to cross-reference to what each of the mapfeature datasets and renderers and softwares currently use in their respective systems. Slightly grunt work, but it's needed in order for me to create a set of standard map features .. all the while respecting both sides of the copyright :-) (the CC-BY-SA map features, and the CC-BY map features are 2 separate entities). All of the Dataset Map Features that are (CCBY & PD) can be merged together, to form the SchemaTroll MapFeatures set, where it uses the common terms across each set). And so, this MapFeature set can freely be used as reference for wiki-editors as well. :) ... just not the other way around. Since ... obviously, ccBYsa is not backwards-compatable. :-) Cheers, Sam _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
