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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 17. Dec 2019, at 01:11, matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de wrote:
> 
> I think, that's a moralistic point of view. I'll neither collect a substantial part
> of the whole OSM database, nor you could proof that there was big investment made to
> collect the data. Since the users are working for free, the only investment are the
> servers.


you believe the mappers are working for “free” because they do not get paid? One can see their contributions as donations, they are donating their time and knowledge, and the value is what it would cost if they were paid according to the work they are doing. It is out of question that an immense investment had to be made for OpenStreetMap to come to the point where it is now, in survey time, data input, software development, and infrastructure.

“substantial” does not mean it has to be a certain percentage of the whole db, you can see this from the substantial guideline, which has fixed limits that are not growing with the db. “substantial” means it’s more than one or two features (OpenStreetMap-Foundation has declared they see a total of 100 features as substantial, although it is not completely clear what a feature is, for example you could go to an extreme point of view and see the whole border of Germany as a single feature (I am not) while a more credible interpretation would see every border point as a feature, so that the border of Germany would be thousands of features). 


Cheers Martin