[OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

[Steve Coast]

> On Oct 9, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> wrote:
> If you want all these rights, you can just pick up the phone and pay HERE or TomTom for them, they’d love to hear from you.
> 
> What's more interesting than sending people to HERE and TomTom is making them contributors to OpenStreetMap, no?

Absolutely, but at what cost?

OSM solved 95% or 99% of our problems. Should we fundamentally change OSM to claim the last 1% so someone can make slightly more money or complete an academic project? I don’t think that’s a worthwhile tradeoff. I’m super happy with the 99% we achieved already.

As a sidenote, we should think about etiquette for how many employees from one firm contribute to discussions: It would not be fair for volunteers to be spammed by companies & their customers. I propose companies appoint one person to round up feedback per organization?

Steve

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