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

[Frederik Ramm]

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.

We must really endeavour to better enable people to draw in non-OSM data 
at the rendering stage so that they don't feel tempted to drop their 
rubbish into OSM just so that they get a nice map rendered.

Bye
Frederik

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