[OSM-legal-talk] new license use case questions

[David Carmean]

I'd like to get input on a couple of use-cases under the ODBl:

An organization (US tax-exempt non-profit) operates a UMN mapserver to
provide public parks information.  They use a shapefile generated from
a filtered snapshot of OSM data--leaving only roads--as a base layer.
Obviously they will have had to work with the shapfile table schema to
create their visual formatting.

If they do nothing else but serve this one-time snapshot as a base
layer, what are their obligations?

Secondly, what if one of their staff, being unfamiliar with OSM but a
GIS expert, sees a problem with one or more roads about which they
have personal knowledge, and "fixes" those problems in the GIS data
only--then publishing the result as a mapserver layer only.  What are
their obligations in this case?


Third: there is the usual problem/condition (depending on your 
political leanings) of divergence in the tag values.  For example, 
"surface=Dirt" vs. "surface=dirt", "surface=cement" vs. "surface=concrete", 
etc.  I'd certainly want to "fix" that, but if I were that agency, I woulnd't 
have the time/skills to make a 'bot fix back in the OSM database.

I just haven't figured out when, and in what form, consumers would have to 
"give back" when they use our data.

Thanks.