[OSM-dev] TIGER upload automation

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Thu Aug 30 14:30:32 BST 2007


Hi,

> I don't think it's unreasonable to turn off T at H in the mean time to
> reduce api server load.

I agree.

There's one point that I would like to bring to the attention of the  
TIGER import team - maybe it is already taken care of, I don't know:

I would like to see the whole of OSM under PD license at some point  
in the future. This is unlikely to be agreed by everyone, so if we  
want to avoid kicking out the non-PD people and deleting their  
contributions, we will have to aim for some kind of "dual license",  
where you have a choice of either accessing the full OSM data set  
that we have now, or a "filtered" version that gives you only the PD  
stuff.

What exactly this version would give you will of course be subject to  
debate, but I guess it would be fair to assume that something that  
was imported from TIGER and not touched afterwards is still PD and  
would be handed out by such an "PD OSM" service.

I hope that there will be a relatively easy way to find out whether  
something in our database is still untainted TIGER data. Will you be  
using a special username for TIGER uploads? That would solve the  
problem rather nicely - everything last modified by that user would  
then be original TIGER stuff.

Bye
Frederik

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