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At 01:12 PM 30/04/2008, Rahkonen Jukka wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I concluded that I'd rather see my contributions in public domain
and added<br>
> the PD-user template to show that. I wonder what does it mean
in practice.<br>
> Is it now possible for me or anybody else to extract all features I
have<br>
> created and which have never been touched by other users? How
about ways<br>
> created originally by me but edited later by others? How
should I work<br>
> in the future to guarantee that my edits will be free? Should I do
all <br>
> new work in some other environment and store it there before
donating <br>
> it to OSM or what? I am now only speaking about creating
totally new <br>
> features, not editing anything done by others.<br>
> <br>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-</blockquote><br>
My personal view only:<br><br>
While I have the PD-user template on my user page and would encourage
like-minded folks to do the same, I feel it is mostly a political
statement than of real practical benefit. You are welcome,
for example, to take all my work for the island of Boracay [1] and
do whatever you like with it. But I cannot guarantee no one else
has added new material or made edits in the meantime ... and I
don't like to tread on the feet of fellow mappers who don't think as I
do.<br><br>
For my own possible use, yes, I take a copy of new areas I've worked on
from OSM before other folks arrive. I don't feel it necessary to
work in a different environment before donating to OSM, ... but
again, as long as you are sure that what is yours, really is yours.
The Osmxapi API [2] might help there, I believe it is possible to filter
on the userid of the last person to touch the data(??).<br><br>
And then there's a new license in the works. May be it will address
many of the reasons why you want your contributions in the public domain
by better defining how OSM data can be combined with other
projects.<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
[1]
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.967&lon=121.9271&zoom=14&layers=B0FT" eudora="autourl">
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.967&lon=121.9271&zoom=14&layers=B0FT</a>
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[2]
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi</a></font></body>
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