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

[edodd at billiau.net]

> 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.

>
> This is a strawman argument.
>
> 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.

The accuracy of the coastline from ABS data compared to the previous PGS
coastline is the reason that mappers have remade the coastline from the
newer data.
You are suggesting that we revert to the old coastline. Perhaps we prefer
the vastly more accurate one we obtained from the Australian government.
It is certainly not a straw argument.