[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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