[OSM-legal-talk] Data consumer use cases
Igor Brejc
igor.brejc at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 07:05:27 GMT 2012
Thank you, Jonathan
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Jonathan Harley <jon at spiffymap.net> wrote:
>
> Hi all, just a note to say that I've updated the Use Cases wiki page based
> on the comments below from Igor and others who replied to me earlier in the
> month.
>
> Michael - everyone who's commented about your redrafted guideline has
> agreed with it - maybe it's time to go ahead and replace what's there now.
>
> Jonathan.
>
>
>
> On 05/11/12 19:46, Igor Brejc wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Jonathan Harley <jon at spiffymap.net<mailto:
>> jon at spiffymap.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Michael's reply to you about the "trivial transformation
>> guideline" of 30 October agrees with this - in his terms it
>> provides no new "physical observations" and the intent of the
>> license is to capture those for share-alike, not to extend
>> share-alike to any technique used for storing or transmitting the
>> data.
>>
>> Anyone disagree?
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>>
>> What are the other examples you had in mind? Real-world examples
>> are exactly what we need for this.
>>
>>
>> Some more:
>>
>> * Various forms of algorithm-driven generalizations: simplifications
>>
>> of roads and polygons, merging of polygons with same or similar
>> landuse, elimination of polygons that are too small for given map
>> scale (like buildings), amalgamation...
>> * Transformation of multipolygons (polygons with holes) into weakly
>>
>> simple polygons (certain platforms don't know how to render
>> polygons with holes).
>> * Algorithm-driven automated label and icon placement.
>> * Other applications of geometric and graph algorithms on OSM data
>>
>> (Voronoi diagrams, traveling distances etc.) if they are driven by
>> OSM data only.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Igor
>>
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