[OSM-legal-talk] Data consumer use cases

[Jonathan Harley]

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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