Show HN: MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data
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Then it was a matter of reverse image search, usually public space images are CC-BY so I figured I should mention that so they don't get into trouble for something easily fixable.
Their website [1] says "NASA content [...] generally are not copyrighted." It then goes on to say that "NASA should be acknowledged as the source of the material." IANAL, but I would assume that if the data is not copyrighted, then there's no need to attribute the source, making that "should" pretty toothless.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/NASA_images
It's easy to imagine that NASA has more limited rights to reproduce and redistribute images produced by their partners though, and they have lots of partners.
If you ever want to chat maps, ben@mapme.com :)
Also, why is "category" required? Is a global namespace of map names the smartest thing to do? How often do you think people will create a map called "SF" or "Golden Gate Park"? There will be name collision all the time.
A couple of comments:
- Tags are really useful, but they are too hidden in the UI. I don't know that most regular users would know to go to the "Filter" menu and then click "Tags".
- The biggest issue I have so far - in the Classic view, I can't see a way to get my descriptions to show up except at the individual pin level. It would be very useful if they could display in the list, like in the Story view.
- Nested categories would be great.
Now, talking about integrating it into MapHub rendered maps, it's definitely possible. I am using the open source osm2vectortiles [1] project, and the older, open source MapBox tm2 styles [2] to render the tiles, so changes can even be contributed by the community!
[1] https://github.com/osm2vectortiles/osm2vectortiles [2] https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-studio-osm-bright.tm2
Would you like to have points on each kilometer / mile along the route?
Here's an example of such a map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zyGHTR9wg3w8.ki2OYJV5...
It would be great if there is a number under the cursor that tells me how long my current track is as I move the cursor and add waypoints and maybe another number to tell me the distance between the last way point and the cursor. Does that make sense?
Of course that doesn't make it the most discoverable feature!
The ODBL is kind of like copyleft license for databases (gross oversimplification)
Its not an attribution issue. Its more that if the data is mixed into the database in a certain way, that data must also be made available under terms similar to the ODBl. So if I have the locations of the best Thai restaurants in a city, and I add this data to OpenStreetMap data, refine it based on the existing OSM data and present it, I must make my restaurant data available under the terms of the ODBl.
If you are just overlaying data on top of image tiles generated from OSM data I think you are okay, but once you mix the data it becomes weird. For example if the OSM data has a few of those restaurants in it, and you modify your data set to remove them so there's no duplicates, I think thats a case where you must share your data back with the OSM project. You can check out the OSM (non-dev) mailing lists for more discussion on this.
I liked the download as KML - it loaded up okay in Google Earth. Would be good to have map state in the URL bar, e.g. map position and probably basemap selected for sharing which I would imagine is in your list.
Can I select ways using a query and have them become something I wish to call out?
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/fly
(click 'Run' and then 'Export')
(I think there is a fair chance you are aware of it, posting for other readers too)
uMap mentioned elsewhere on this page has support for some formats output directly by Overpass API, which powers Overpass Turbo. Overpass Turbo has javascript for converting those formats to KML and GPX. So in uMap, you can generate a layer by pasting in the query, no need to push it through kml or gpx.
Of course exported data will be from the time of export.
e.g. searching for E14 9TP, I get this - https://rjp.is/tmp/badsearchwonkyutf8.png
kept giving me a "Try again" error Tried different emails and passwords but it kept giving the same non descriptive "Try again" error.
I get "No account matches..."
I'm still looking for a FaiF version of something like this - does anybody know of one? Seems like a slap in the face to all of the OSM developers to use an entirely Free stack with a proprietary veneer on it.
But honestly, even if it's proprietary, OpenStreetMappers don't mind. We're happy that someone is using our data, that's what we are there for.
Now, what you are looking for is probably something along the lines of uMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UMap which has something like a WTFPL license https://github.com/umap-project/umap/ and which is something I point people to. It's lacking the design flair of this product but it's probably a bit more feature rich.
Particularly since the author does not appear to be meeting their burden under the OpenStreetMap license.
"You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors."[0]
"We require that you use the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”."
"For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner of the map. For example:"
There might be a bug or two to work out, but they clearly aren't ignoring attribution.