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

Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstinger at gmx.net
Fri Jul 8 10:22:41 BST 2011


On 2011-07-08 09:10, Maarten Deen wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I just looked out of the window and realized that the streets have 
no names painted on them. And there are even no boundary lines in the 
landscape.

Man, I really should get out more often.

Bye, Andreas

PS: Sorry for the sarcasm but I decided that I've better things to do 
than nitpicking on the exact definitions of words or terms. You can 
spare any replies because I will just ignore them.



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