<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Am 08.02.2019 um 20:37 schrieb Ulrich Lamm:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; ">OSM is already used like a quallity product.<br>We have to provide that quality, now, or we have to warn people that they should not use OSM until ten years later.<br><br>If / As official databases provide their contents under Creative Commons licenses to enable free use for everybody,<br>it is a lie to say, OSM cannot use them.<br><br>I have tried to show the way to prevent OSM from isolation by its own fault:<br>We have to distinguish between those contents (geometries), on which we cannot meet Creative Commons conditions,<br>and those contents (definitions, names, results of scientific investigations) on which we can meet Creative Commons conditions, easliy.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Let us face the background interests.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem of using official reference informations that are available for free use</div><div>is not a problem between official databases and the community of volunteer mappers,</div><div>working for free on a collection of geographic informations that can be used for free.</div><div><br></div><div>It is a problem between the free community with its free product</div><div>and some people who exploit this free collection (and the unpaid work of thousands of volunteers) for commercial use.</div><div>Some people that hold powerful positions in the community live from selling applications of our volunteer work.</div><div>Certainly, some of these commercial applications are a surplus value in relation to the free applications.</div><div>But that is not our problem. Our intention is to get reliable free information as a revenue for free work.</div><div><br></div><div>If the most reliable informations are references that are excluded from commercial exploitation, </div><div>unless the exploiter has an individual license contract with the provider of the reference data,</div><div>the commercial exploiter has the choice either to sell a product without informations that are available for free,</div><div>or he has to pay. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Ulrich Lamm</div><div><br></div></body></html>