[OHM] OGL & OHM

[Lester Caine]

On 26/05/15 07:44, Susanna Ånäs wrote:
> I am in favour or creating a future-compatible environment, but we
> should collect data about where the problems are.
> 
> Source attribution should ideally not be tied to the issue of copyright.
> I think it should be a requirement per se in this environment where the
> usefulness of the data stems from knowing the provenance of the data.
> That information should go down to feature level.

Current data is at least traceable to on the ground objects, so someone
claiming to 'own' the data has to have a good reason for it not being in
the public domain already? Adding historic material such as when certain
features were added which is not verifiable physically is starting to
digress into that area. When doing verification of genealogical data,
the sources of facts can be identified and the copyright on that source
may affect it's usability. In my own case, the location is an important
part of that data, and this is where the development of an area provides
a cross reference to accuracy of the source data. This is where
personally I'm looking for 'open source' access to map scans rather than
paid for services as we have with much genealogical data today.

The ideal situation would be a database of source material that can be
used freely and attribution/provenance would simply be a reference to
entry in that database?

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