DELAWEN(1) GIS Expert DELAWEN(1)
NAME
delawen – geographic information systems expert
SYNOPSIS
delawen [OPTION]…
DESCRIPTION
Delawen is a gis expert. She can program, analyze, design and help you on whatever geographic information system need you have. She’s specialized on free software and free data. Free as in freedom, of course.
-j, –java
Develops in Java (Oracle or the free JDK version).
-p, –python
Simple developing on python.
-js, –javascript
Maps over web. OpenLayers, Leaflet,…
-pg, –postgresql
Administer and programming against postgreSQL and its extension postGIS.
-h2, –h2database
If a lightweight database needed (like on Android), she can also use the spatial extension of h2database.
-osm
Management of OpenStreetMap data or free gis data available around the world.
-gv –gvsig
Whenever a desktop IDE needed, she can help you developing against gvSIG.
AUTHOR
Original idea and redacted by María Arias de Reyna
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to delawen who you can find on gmail
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2012.
This is free data: you are free to redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for marias is maintained as a curriculum vitae.
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4 Responses to "$ man délawen"
I’d definitely asidve you to keep mapping as you have until now and have fun while doing it, go to as yet unmapped places and add new data instead of spending time on redoing work that has already been done. The license change process is a huge distraction from actually making maps and it’s executed in a way that seems hopeless.To give you an example, all of the tools listed on the linked pages above, work with the Contributor Terms acceptance information, which is orthogonal to ODbL compatibility. In other words there is data in the OSM database both which is incompatible with the ODbL, but is Contributor Terms-compatible, and data which is ODbL compatible from authors who declined Contributor Terms. This means that the tools say nothing about ODbL compatibility.There are other such glitches in the process which pretty much warranty a failure.
Coast: Well, if you are a lawyer then plasee explain where my interpretation is wrong. From the example on the OSM website a webpage is collective as it is a collection of files. The map can be extracted easily as it is effectively in a different layer from the rest of the page and other images on the page. Derivative is where the layers cannot be separated.If I create a powerpoint presentation and include OSM data in it then that is derivative. I cannot distribute the power point file without also distributing the map as it is integral to the file format. The same goes for any demos that I create. The database I’d need to use would be an amalgam of OSM data and other data (not necessarily my data either. It might be licensed from some other source in a way that is incompatible with CC-BY-SA). It would not be easy distribute it as two parts as the relationships within the database would necessarily break.If that is an incorrect interpretation then plasee explain why the power point presentation or demo is a collective work. Also, if you want on side of people you might want to work on your people skills. Stating that I over-rate the value of [my] ideas and data isn’t the best way to get someone to your side of the argument. I have had to defend my intelectual property on a number of occasions so I know there are people out there that have (and potentially will again) take my work and claim it as their own.On to the business aspect, you are right that some companies have sprung up around GPL. However, my example was of some internal function within a company using OSM data with their own to create a derivative work (again, explain why this example is not a derivative work if I have inadvertently misinterpreted it). If the derivative work contains some company confidential data then the company has instantly lost control of that data. The moment the work is distributed the company has lost control of it. Sure, the raw data that was used is still intact, but control over the the aggregate result is now irrevocably lost. I don’t know many companies that would allow that kind of thing to happen.I don’t think even companies that revolve around Linux and GPL software would want their internal sales figures, HR data (which would be even more serious) and the like potentially exposed (or exposable) like that. They may decide if they keep the distribution internal then that is okay, but all it takes is one disgruntled employee
Ok. That’s good enough for now.What’s OSM’s buesnsis model? Only donations? Or are there other buesnsis models that proportionally increase OSM’s income along with increases in tile usage and downloads?I’m just imagining that OSM.org will only very slowly improve as a service if their income is purely based on the donations from private individuals.I would be happy to pay OSM for tiles because I know the money will result in service improvements. I’m not equally happy paying the other vendors since I’m not really sure how that will affect service quality. Of course I can just donate, but I’d rather like to know if downloading Denmark at the highest resolution really should cost $5 and the pay just that Thing is, I not sure there are enough people who would donate because OSM is a good idea , which is the incentive behind donating money to any good cause at all.
Internally, a company can use OSM data and their own. It’s only if the data is *distributed* pcluibly, then that data should also be licensed by cc-by-sa. There’s is absolutely nothing in the license that requires a company to distribute. A company therefore is safe using their company confidential information with OSM data for internal use.Also, if a map is made and distributed externally, there’s absolutely nothing in the license that requires that the source data should also be distributed. If they do distribute a map, then in the case of confidential information, then I would ask, why if it’s so confidential, is it being distributed?If the data is not confidential, (i.e. location of retail stores) then perhaps the data should be released under a similar license?The problem would be, as you pointed out, mixing other licensed data, and then wanting to distribute the final map. I would recommend looking at the source of the other data, as it is precisely because of restrictive data licenses, that the openstreetmap project was created.