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

[Alex Barth]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Let's presume we all followed this reading, then when would something
> actually fall under the definition of "derivative" database? Why would we
> still be writing to legal talk instead of using the whole OSM db as a
> produced work - produced e.g. by performing some operations like wget
> planet.osm -O osm-produced.work


The command you describe would just be a copy and not actually a query or a
search of the database. But extrapolating from what you write, copying the
entire db through a geocoder is actually hard. You'll have to know all
addresses in advance or query all locations in the world. The latter is
expensive and it would always leave you with an inaccurate copy. Either
way, if you did this in a systematic way you'd be looking at a Derivative
Database again. Just like the example of OCRing an OSM based tiled map and
thus rebuilding the OSM database that has come up before.
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