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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 03.04.2015 um 02:41 schrieb stevea:<br>
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<div>Simon Poole writes:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="">Up to now OSM has drawn the line
in such
a way that stuff that is<br>
signposted and is observable on the ground is fair game (with
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="">exceptions, I believe the GR issue
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still unsolved).</blockquote>
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<div>Yes, all of that is fair game. Though I don't know what
"the GR issue" is, and ask you to please clarify.</div>
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Sorry for the late answer, been on the road for two days and now are
on a rather flaky network connection. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes#France">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Walking_Routes#France</a> for a very
short synopsis of the GR issue.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:p06240806d1438c624f92@%5B192.168.31.124%5D"
type="cite">...... As "facts about the world,"
these data belong to us, and when true, we can put them into OSM.
(Sometimes such data, like airline routes, are inappropriate to
put
into OSM -- but that's another topic).
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I think where we differ is that I see OSM (not only) as a project
that demonstrates (in practical use) what citizens can do with
today's technology, in an area that just a couple of years back was
completely controlled by government and industry. If by doing so,
more government data becomes freely available then that is a nice
side effect, but not a primary goal. <br>
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I don't see it as a vehicle to promote any specific agenda outside
of the relatively narrow goals of the project itself. In particular
I don't see potentially impacting the primary goal of providing free
(as in free of legal restrictions by third parties) geo data to
everyone by becoming embrolied in legal fights just to prove a
point.<br>
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It is my subjective impression is that we are just on the brink of
the project being unworkable because our contributors are too bold
in using third party sources -not- the other way around (and yes
when I get back home I have to deal with removing months of work by
a mapper together with the DWG because they were too bold).<br>
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Simon<br>
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