<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:51 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>80n wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I support Frederik's view that the community is the most valuable aspect <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of OSM.<br></blockquote><br>Um, I'm not arguing against that. All I'm disputing is this silly little<br>notion that maps automatically lose all value after a year or two.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>They automatically START to lose value once you separate your derived map from the community. In particular -- and this is the important part -- any proprietary improvements you make to the map are the beginning of the loss of value of deriving your map from OSM. The data is as much protected by the process as it is by the license.</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--<br>Russ Nelson - <a href="http://community.cloudmade.com/blog">http://community.cloudmade.com/blog</a> - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson</a><br><a href="mailto:russ@cloudmade.com">russ@cloudmade.com</a> - <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson">http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>