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

[Michal Palenik]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 04:41:40PM -0700, Kai Krueger wrote:
> Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote
> > So the way I see it, if there's any (substantial) addition of external
> > geo-data along the way, then that addition creates a derivative
> > database, before the produced work is created. So if you want to
> > publicly use this database (or any produced work based on it) then
> > either the derivative database must be shared-alike, or the algorithm
> > used to produce it and any additional input data must be shared.
> > 
> > In the case of any substanitial amount of geocoding, you are clearly
> > having to add additional geographic data to the OSM data in order to
> > do the geocoding.
> 
> I would interpret it as quite the opposite and you are not adding any
> substantial amount of geographical information.
> 
> You do query the db with external geo-data. But if the geocoder gives you a
> result, the information was (in this form) already in the OSM database and
> so you haven't added anything. If the data was not already in the OSM
> database, then the geocoder will not spit out any result and thus you
> haven't created any derived database (or anything else for that matter).
> 
> So in either case, the result(s) from the geocoding process are pure
> OpenStreetMap data and there is no additional external geo-data added to the
> output. Therefore this process then also does not trigger the share-a-like
> clause in it self. 

there is modification of original DB (several elements from DB were chosen)
there is no algorithm available (is the list of chosen elements
available?), so one cannot reproduce the alternation. 

also i would like to point to recent discussion
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-March/003233.html

> And so as long as you don't use the resultant lat/lon in
> a way incompatible with the definition of produced work, geocoding itself is
> fine.
> 
> 
> 
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