[OSM-dev] USGS fork of OpenStreetMap

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Eric Wolf <ebwolf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course, this means all of the data in a USGS fork can be put into OSM.

Eric, it's really neither accurate nor helpful to keep referring to
this independent USGS project as a fork of OSM. You are simply
starting afresh, from an empty database, but you are using the same
tools that we do. That's not a fork, that's a separate project.

A fork would be to pre-populate your own database with all of the OSM
data, and make changes from that point. Calling your independent
project a "fork" is misleading and will lead to a lot of confusion.

Cheers,
Andy