[OSM-legal-talk] The edges of share-alike on data Re: Attribution

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 05.05.2014 16:39, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>> I believe this is somehow more limiting than what we actually might
>> want. E.g. we don't collect traffic data, but if there was a company
>> which used our data as basemap and associated average speeds for time
>> spans to our graph (e.g. automatically from the analysis of their
>> users / smartphones) I think we would be interested to get this data
>> to improve our routing.
> 
> Usefulness to Openstreetmap is orthogonal to the ODBL.
> 
> That traffic data might relate to way identifiers, but it does not
> improve or even modify Openstreetmap data - so I fail to see how
> Openstreetmap might lay claim on a map showing traffic over
> Openstreetmap highways.

True but the use case sketched here went far beyond simply displaying an
overlay; this use case was about snapping speed recordings to OSM street
data to find out which street the recording was for in the first place,
thereby creating a derivative database.

Bye
Frederik

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