[OSM-talk-be] This week in OSM mailing lists (May 15-21)

[Ben Laenen]

Hi all,

here is this week's selection of discussions in the other OSM mailing lists...

Greetings
Ben



* Human readable contributor terms

Following the switch for new contributors to both ODbL and CC-BY-SA, some 
effort has been made to create a simpler version of the contributor terms

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Human_readable


* Tag support table (tagging@)

Steve Bennett made a table which shows which tags are supported by the major 
renderers and editors, which can be usable for example if something doesn't 
render and you wonder if it's because it's not supported or wrongly tagged.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Stevage/tagsupport


* Flash and open source (talk@)

Richard Fairhurst mentioned a petition at http://openplayer.net/ to encourage 
Adobe to make the Flash player open source. So head that way if you believe an 
online petition can help with that...


* New logo proposal (talk@)

This discussion kept on going and also generated a few other ones:

  * "How can we spread the tribal knowledge?" on how OSM should be presented
    to a bigger audience

  * "Wiki contributions" on how to make contributing to the wiki more
    interesting by giving feedback that they're doing some nice work


* How to tag the link between parkings and what they're used for (tagging@)

Long standing issue on how to tag access rules to a parking that belongs to a 
business, shop, or other situation where the parking is not open for everyone 
to use. Would it be access=destination, access=customer or parking_use=*?

It's also interesting to make a link between a parking and for example an 
office building or a shop so you can tell whether you're allowed to use it.


* Court decision about copyright on road maps in the Dutch Antilles (talk-nl@)

Discussion about what was actually decided by the court and what it would mean 
for OSM(NL) (probably not much...).

http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/resultpage.aspx?snelzoeken=true&searchtype=ljn&ljn=BI6864


* Tagging proposals (talk@ and tagging@)

  * place=isolated_dwelling was approved after voting
    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/isolated_dwelling
    Discussion about whether this new tag deprecates place=farm and its place
    within the other place tags

  * Garden specification (proposed)
    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Garden_specification

  * Seafood shop (voting)
    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/seafood_shop

  * Advanced stop line for cyclists (proposed)
    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Advanced_stop_line