[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hi,
sorry for replying a little late, I'm not up to date,

On 28 September 2010 21:19, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> kevin at cordina.org.uk wrote:
>>
>> Which would be true if I had the technical ability to render the
>> data.  I don't.  However, some kind soul has written a renderer for
>> OSM data that does it for me.
>
> See, that's exactly the problem we're having.
>
> "There's this nice data set which I'd like rendered/on my Garmin/... but
> sadly I don't know how to process that sanely. Let's just import into
> OpenStreetMap because once it is there, I automatically get nice maps."
>
> OSM is not the "we render anything for you because you can't do it yourself"
> project. Statements like yours above make me even more determined to say no
> to imports - you openly admit that you have no desire in actually
> maintaining the data, you just want to use OSM as a giant rendering engine.
> That's really sad.

You're really making no sense, sorry.  If there is a street which is
not in OpenStreetMap, but its data is avaiable from a compatible
source then let's add it. If there's nothing better available than GPS
to capture the geometry then let's use that, although likely it will
be lower quality.

The only reason people are adding data to OSM is because they want a
complete map they can realiably use for routing, rendering and many
more, often innovative, uses.  Missing data in OSM is a very good
(perhaps the only?) reason to add data to OSM, and this is exactly
what Kevin did.  What is your use case that you prefer a less complete
map?

It's not like he wanted a imaginary map for his computer game and
abused OSM, he wanted something that OSM is supposed to be, a map of
the Earth.  He used the right tool to get what he wanted, at the same
time helping all the other people who also need a map.

Cheers