[OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> I have said consistently that the Australian section of the map stands to lose
> an enormous amount of data in a change to ODbL.
> Smart Europeans have suggested that we just get out there and map it. They are
> welcome to assist. I am saving the crocodile infested waters for particular
> groups of persons and the dangerous waters off Western Tasmania for another
> group, because our coastline is one item we will lose from the map, and I'm
> expecting you all to kayak around the coast to map it for us.

This is a strawman argument. We didn't kayak around the coast of
siberia, but we managed to map that. We didn't kayak around Patagonia,
and we managed to map that too. We didn't kayak around Canada, and we
managed to map that. I even helped with that bit.

If - and I really mean "if" - If we had to remove the Australian
coastline, then we can get another version with very little effort.
It's really not the big issue that it might seem. We managed for the
rest of the planet, and there's nothing special about the Australian
coastline.

If you like, we could set up a little side project to generate the
entire australian coastline from scratch over a few days, drop the
existing data and replace it overnight. It would clearly remove one
issue with moving to the ODbL, and then we can discuss the smaller
list of issues that remain.

Cheers,
Andy