[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 8 08:10:11 BST 2011


On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:59:26 +0200, Andreas Perstinger wrote:
> On 2011-07-08 01:43, Anthony wrote:
>> The idea that the OSM database "just reproduces geographical facts"
>> is, quite frankly, laughable.
>
> I would like to join the laughter so please show me an example of a
> non-geographical fact in the database.

Turn restrictions, maximum speeds, oneway streets, even the value of 
the highway tag is not a geographical fact. The whole craft section, 
lots of the non_physical stuff. And I'm sure there's more.

Regards,
Maarten



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