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

[Joseph Gentle]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> you overestimate what we've managed to map in Oz so far.
> we are a long way from having a working routable set of maps for even the
> highways across the land.
> At the exponential rate of increase we should be usable in 3 years, then will
> be a slow crawl to get the last remote places done.
> (lots of Oz is remote - about 50% of the land mass)

You seem to have a lot of anger toward garmin. That doesn't really
pursuade other people.

Even assuming we make a complete set of maps under a share-alike
license as you suggest, there will always be a market for companies
like garmin to peddle their wares. People who can't or won't share
back will license garmin's data. A PD set of data would remove
garmin's market entirely. Who would buy maps from them when they can
get ours for free?

I am not motivated by your anger, but even if I was, I would prefer PD maps.

-J