[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[Jaakko Helleranta.com]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:

> In looking through the data it appears a lot of it has sense been field
> server.  Since the original mapper
> traced the data from imagery.  It seems kind of silly for that to cause the
> data to be deleted.
>

I couldn't have said it better (and didn't want to even try & add length to
my post). This issue will most probably apply to especially other crisis
areas (and especially where there's been further development after the
tracing).

But Kate's point is very right: It surely would be silly if we'd end up
deleting data that has been "merely" traced (which is very easy to do again,
albeit takes some time) but it would be especially annoying if roads that
someone has surveyed properly afterwards the tracing (or have checked the
road geometry from better imagery, for that matter -- something that I have
done a good chunk here!) would have to be deleted (even though there might
really well be much nothing original left in the current version).

In any case the more I think of the idea of allowing users to license some
areas differently the more I like it (even though this would most probably
not be a desired option for those who are actually trying to figure out how
to handle everything during the transition).

Cheers from Haiti,
-Jaakko
http://osm.org/user/jaakkoh

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