[OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Thu Oct 9 23:09:09 BST 2008
Hi,
Simon Ward wrote:
> Merely processing into a different format needs to be clarified. If
> someone takes OSM ways + nodes + relations and imports it into PostGIS
> without changing any of it, I see that as processing into a different
> format. I believe that PostGIS DB should be freely available.
Either I am misreading half of what you say, or you are concerned very
little about the usability of OpenStreetMap after the license change.
We're drifting towards a system where people update their mirrors every
minute (OSMXAPI is a good example here). It is simply not possible to
offer (a) a *current* database dump from OSMXAPI to anyone who requests
it at any time, or (b) direct read access to the OSMXAPI database to
anyone except what the API provides. [Going out on a limb with (b) as I
don't know the internals of OSMXAPI but if it were PostGIS based then
(b) would certainly hold.]
If I combine your statement above with
> “reasonable” is too variable. The derived database should be made
> available as the product using the data is.
Then this means basically that OSMXAPI would have to shut down, and our
own Mapnik tileserver would probably never get beyond importing one
planet file per day because every planet file import would mean, at the
same time, that a PostGIS dump has to be made available and this might
simply take too long to be usable.
Bye
Frederik
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