[OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

[Liz]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 80n wrote:
> > I like so view OSM as a cool DIY project, not a political trick we're
> > pulling.
>
> The problem with PD is that it permits companies to take OSM data, add
> their own data and benefit from result without giving anything back.
>  Joseph's bus company could take OSM's PD data, add its own bus stops and
> publish the mobile app that Joseph wants.  There is no incentive for them
> to make their bus stop data available.  They gain and everyone else loses.
>
> Do you really feel comfortable about that happening?
>
> 80n

I'm in this mapping project for two reasons

1. Garmin wanted my first-born son as payment for data for use in a GPS. The 
data is faulty. If I contribute corrections, they don't even offer me 
cut-price data.

2. An Australian project with a combination of hand collected and government 
data has stalled because one man has to do it all. He accepts new tracks but 
we don't know when there are updates. Licensing is not free because the 
government wants to resell my data to myself (Ordnance Survey style).

My first born son has left home, so I can't pay Garmin's price. 
I want to contribute data and correct data.

I don't want PD for my data because then I can see the company like Garmin 
freely using it to update their maps and still charging me for my data.

Liz