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

[Kevin Cordina]

Please do not misrepresent what I have said and suggest I have said something I haven't.

I absolutely intend to maintain the data I enter.  The OS data provides me (and OSM in general) a starting point, from which I can build a more complete data set.  Perhaps one day I'll build something that meets your expectations, but then again perhaps not as my needs are different.  Hopefully there is some spillover from my contributions to other's needs.

I still disagree that the OS data is "Rubbish".  It seems to serve the many commercial organisations that use it perfectly well.

Kevin

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From: legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org <legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org>
To: kevin at cordina.org.uk <kevin at cordina.org.uk>; Licensing and other legal discussions. <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tue Sep 28 20:19:32 2010
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

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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