[OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

[John Smith]

On 5 June 2011 21:40, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nick Hocking wrote:
>>
>> The only way, I see, out of this mess is for me to map a new set of
>> residential roads, using my actual GPS tracks, alongside the nearmapped
>> ones, make then properly routable, and maybe put a layer tag on them (for
>> the moment) to ensure that routers don't confuse the issue.
>
> Well if you are prepared to do this work, and if it is clear that the other
> mapper doesn't support the license change, and if you think simply staying
> with the current status for a while is not an option (since you need to add
> road name), then I'd just delete the other person's data and replace it with
> yours. The map will not be worse for it, and the other mapper can hardly
> complain.

He is yet to back up his claims about people using the data, so far
I'm told the SES and other emergency services use their own
GPS/mapping solutions. So unless he can backup his claims he's only
going to be vandalising the map, and here you are cheering him along
after you so carefully worded things earlier to try and prevent any
kind of edit waring or map vandalisim.

As others have pointed out, the best way to handle the change over
would be to start a new database and copy data into it that is
allowable.