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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-07-14 20:26 GMT+02:00 Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com>:

> Just like how CC-BY-SA created a grey area around the SA implications for
> the rendered map which wasn't good for OSM, ODbL does the same with
> permanent geocoding. To make OSM viable for geocoding we can't have its
> ODbL infecting the datasets it's used on.
>
> There are tons of geodatasets out there waiting to be geocoded and we
> should have clarity around the legal implications of doing that. More use
> of OSM for geocoding means more incentives to keep and maintain geocoding
> data (addresses, POIs, admin polygons) in OSM.
>


I think for what you want you should push for a license change, and not for
guidelines...
I also fail to understand how a database of coordinates could qualify as
"produced work".

cheers,
Martin
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