[OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

[Michael Patrick]

There are other writings about ODBL, but this one captures the issues
fairly well:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ODbL_comments_from_Creative_Commons , a
more in depth treatment can be found in ' Safe to be Open: Study on the
protection of research data and recommendation for access and usage ':
https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/sites/default/files/pdf/835.pdf

Whether it is government, commercial interest or academic researchers, IMHO
it is almost inevitable that 'mixing' will occur as information flows
downstream and back upstream among federated sources. Until somebody
develops and deploys some sort of blockchain provenance that can be
attached to each DB element to keep track of things through pipelines of
analysis/extract transformations, despite the best intentions of data
consumers, it is impossible to be ODBL compliant except in the very
simplest cases, like displaying the end map (with attribution) or using
exclusively ODBL data.

To some extent, extremely permissive licenses ( or 'license free' like the
US Federal ) allow data to easily flow into ODBL, but ironically that
benefit can not be reciprocated. While the https://opendatacommons.org/
seems to be stagnant since 2010 ( last  'News' post, and the Advisory
Council page links mostly go to 404 ) , in contrast the Creative Commons
organization has been continually evolving and adapting.

For me, the point selection via ODBL polygons creates ODBL data.

Michael Patrick
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