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

[John Smith]

On 29 September 2010 02:14, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of the mappers I know are not fond of imports. You can mostly
> just import data that is already available elsewhere. Data that gets
> imported without a vivid community is doomed to get old and useless.

Ok, lets not confuse issues here, one is either imports done poorly or
data that is of low value/poor quality, and the other is the ability
to import data.

> People care much more for their "own" data then for imported data.
> Frederik is not alone with his statement, there is a big community
> behind him that sees this similar.

And there seems to be just as many infavour, however the two groups
seem to differ only by their experience of previous imports.