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

[Simon Poole]

Just a couple of (mostly non-legal) notes on the address stuff:

- there already has been an attempt at crowd sourcing addresses that has
failed: the original  OpenAddresses project (and I don't see anything
that has changed in the last couple years that would indicate that a
renewed effort would succeed).

- Frederik referred to not wanting to have crowd sourced address data in
OSM. However we -do- have tons of crowded-surveyed address data in OSM
and it is growing steadily, naturally on the other hand we do have quite
a lot of imported address data in OSM that is not being maintained in
any meaningful way, including the mother of all OSM address imports.

- while OA (the MB project) is neat in many ways, it's big drawback is
that it doesn't really address the main problem with OGD: determining
the terms on which the data is available. Right now using OA essentially
means looking at each of the 1'500 odd datasets (again) and checking if
their licence is compatible with whatever you want to do.

Simon

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