<div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/1 Pieter Colpaert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieter.colpaert@okfn.org" target="_blank">pieter.colpaert@okfn.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div>Question is, if you write a tool which compares data, and people can then choose the correct point inside both datasets, who is then the rightful owner of the resulting dataset? Both organisations? Or all the people who entered the correct data manually?<div>
<br></div><div>Another question, what's the legal difference between:</div><div> - going to each house manually and</div></div></blockquote><div><br>In this case we are taking note of our own observation independently of somebody's dataset.<br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div> - comparing/scraping datasets?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>When comparing with somebody else's data it's important they are agreeable to such use of their data. Openstreetmap prefers to err on the safe side as far as this is concerned.<br>
<br><br>It would be nice to have access to as many datasets as possible, so we can compare and try to draw conclusions from this. We are nice too, in the sense that we give all these sources the opportunity to check back and improve their own data in the process.<br>
<br>Jo<br></div></div>