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<font face="Trebuchet MS">Hi,<br>
<br>
in order to avoid more speculation. Dermot and myself were
attending a meeting of a working group that consists of people who
are dealing with navigation in the German carmakers. The trip was
self financed by Dermot and myself. We were asked to give an
introduction to OSM. As no NDA was signed there was very little
information from the carmakers to us. <br>
<br>
We explained the typical stuff: coverage, license and license
change, the typical question of mixing proprietary data with OSM
data, the impact of copyright violations, liability issues, (the
lack of) copyright assignment, the limited possibility to
negotiate exceptions in the license, the limited possibility of
the OSMF to provide consultancy to corporations (and that
attending such invitations is hardly possible and the limit to
which the OSMF is currently capable), the differences to Linux in
regards to the trust system with the result that indemnification
is much more difficult to provide. <br>
<br>
The people were impressed by the growth of OSM and the quality of
in DACH but are fully aware of the gap to commercial maps (from
their perspective) e.g. limited coverage outside DACH, lack of
address data, missing lane information, missing sign posts,
additional effort to convert the map data into their proprietary
format due to the lack of structural information. They would love
to see a roadmap how the gaps will close over time.<br>
<br>
In fact there is no business with the Automotive industry apart
from Bosch (Softec) sponsoring SOTM 2012.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Oliver<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 08.08.2012 19:04, schrieb Frederik
Ramm:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I'm forwarding this from the OSM "talk" mailing list to OSMF-Talk
because I think it is relevant even for those who might not be
subscribed to talk@.
In short, it's a message from a project member who would like to know
more about what business we have (or aim to have, or don't have) with
the auto industry given that (it seems to him) there are board-level talks.
Bye
Frederik
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Subject: [OSM-talk] OSMF Board & auto industry / What's the story?
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 08:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: ThomasB <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:toba0211@yahoo.de"><toba0211@yahoo.de></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org">talk@openstreetmap.org</a>
Hi,
In the last board minutes [1] there was written "Report of meeting with
German auto industry in Ingolstadt". Additionally, there was a board member
in official mission at the Telematics 2011 [2]. Telematics describes itself
as "largest focused telematics event in Europe that will bring together
global car manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers to discuss future telematics
strategy and launch new products into the market". Automotive suppliers
have/had OSM related job offerings. One current offering from Audi's SatNav
supplier is for a student, topic "Converting OSM data and evaluation of a
database model" [3].
Many board applications at the last election had statements like "If I will
be elected, I will improve the communication". If board members/the board
meet with the same for-profit organisations repeatedly I would think that
the community will be informed at least to avoid conspiracy theories.
Some questions come into my mind and since I think this is of greater
interest, I am asking the questions here
1. How many meetings with the auto industry have been attended by board
members in the name of OSM?
2. What was the main subject?
3. Are there any non-disclosure agreements signed or was there any other
agreement that prevents the OSMF Board to talk about the content of the
meetings? (Learned that from the ESRI case)
Thanks a lot in advance.
Regards
Thomas
[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1wY0TJBRCCj4p5wWSidD8wFh5l9Afb5GtZP5G5FP2-eE">https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1wY0TJBRCCj4p5wWSidD8wFh5l9Afb5GtZP5G5FP2-eE</a>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.telematicsupdate.com/munich/past-attendees.php">http://www.telematicsupdate.com/munich/past-attendees.php</a>
[3]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://096.rexx-server.com/portal-elektrobit/grabber/stelle_preview.php?u=3soft&ga=1&sgl=eng&sl=eng&id=0_1483&sid=9dd2008a5fd9c5211f0e8b553199d8c6&popup=1&printit=1">https://096.rexx-server.com/portal-elektrobit/grabber/stelle_preview.php?u=3soft&ga=1&sgl=eng&sl=eng&id=0_1483&sid=9dd2008a5fd9c5211f0e8b553199d8c6&popup=1&printit=1</a>
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