[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

[Gervase Markham]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> As regards TIGER specifically, my belief is that no community has
> formed around that because what you get in PD is not the "master
> database" but just something compiled by the government, and they have
> promised periodic re-issues of updated information. Whatever changes
> your community makes, they will not be contained in the next
> government release, and you either have to "fork off" and ignore them,
> or forever try and try to filter out the "new stuff" from the next
> release and merge that with what you have.
> 
> I think that if the data had been not "published" PD but actually
> "disowned" by the government (as in: this is what we have and we're
> not going to work with this any more) then the situation would have
> been wholly different.

You think it's more likely that a community would form if there were no 
updates than if there were some updates? That seems counter-intuitive to me.

Gerv