[OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

[Paul Norman]

On Jul 10, 2014, at 07:54 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:

I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding.

In a nutshell: geocoding with OSM data yields Produced Work, share alike does not apply to Produced Work, other ODbL stipulations such as attribution do apply. The goal is to remove all uncertainties around geocoding to help make OpenStreetMap truly useful for geocoding and to drive important address and admin polygon contributions to OpenStreetMap.

This interpretation is based on what we hear from our lawyers at Mapbox. As this is an interpretation of the ODbL, grey areas remain and therefore, seeing this interpretation adopted as a Community Guideline by the OSMF would be hugely helpful to create more certainty about the consensus around geocoding with OpenStreetMap data.

Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline
 
That a geocoding result is not a derived database is fairly obvious and not that interesting. It was produced from a derivative database, but isn't a database itself so can't be a derivative database. 

In my reading of the definitions, a database of geocoding results is a derivative database of the database used to power the geocoder. That database will then frequently be part of a collective database where the other independent databases are typically proprietary databases of some kind. That collective database is then generally used to produce works that are a produced work of the database of geocoding results as part of a collective database.
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