(English) Map Updates 9.9.2010

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Sorry for not writing out a newsletter for the last update, but as I only updated Saturday evening and hadn't much time I forgot about it. Since the last newsletter mainly bugfixes of various stuff. I did include some better helptext messages/diagnostics for the contourline scripts, added volleyballfield polygons and polygons for all kind of wilderness huts, so that they become searchable also if not entered as POI. Finally corrected that chairlifts were rendered incorrectly.

 

Besides I added a Flattr widget. However I'm still pretty sceptical as to whether this works for a site like mine. I will review the situation in one month…

 

(English) Map Updates 28.8.2010 and information regarding future odbl license

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First of all regarding the map update. I fixed a few bugs that were introduced by the last update (allotments not shown, leisure=park forgotten in some typfiles, landuse=orchard added) and made quite a lot of POI symbols smaller, and some bigger (alpine_hut / wilderness_hut / basic_hut). The lines section stayed unchanged.

Also I included some lines in the installer, to delete the tilecache. So now no more old Mapsource/Basecamp cachefiles should exist after each installation of a openmtbmap map.

 

Secondly a big change regarding the license of the style-file/tpyfile – I changed them to CCBYNCSA 3.0, this has a few reasons. The main one being that I'm really unhappy with the upcoming license change to the odbl license and the completly crazy new contributor terms. I will write some more details about why I recommend not accepting it (and thereby sticking to the CCBYSA2.0 license) in future, but I fear that OSM will really loose it's main assets – being free maps by switching to the odbl license (and the possibility to lock maps by DRM mechanisms, currently not allowed).

I am currently unsure […]