[OSM-legal-talk] conflicting statements in Community Guidelines

Lars-Daniel Weber Lars-Daniel.Weber at gmx.de
Mon Oct 14 15:08:49 UTC 2019


Hi again,

sorry for creating another topic, it's somehow related, but somehow different.

Community Guideline "Horizontal Map Layers" doesn't allow to cherry-pick features within the same layer from a proprietary dataset to complete missing data in OSM without triggering share-alike.

Community Guideline "Geocoding" allows cherry-picking as quoted here:

> The OSM-based Geocoding Results are an insubstantial extract or
> contain no OSM data and thus do not trigger share-alike obligations
> and can be stored together with the non-OSM-based Geocoding Results
> with no impact on the non-OSM-based Geocoding results, so long as the
> aggregated collection of results does not contain the whole or a
> substantial part of the OSM database. The cloud-based Geocoder is,
> however, required to credit OpenStreetMap as described in Section 4.3
> of the ODbL.

Let's say, you're picking 5,000 restaurants, which is clearly a insubstantial part of all restaurants in planet file. For 4,000 items, you'll get coordinates from the proprietary dataset, for the other 1,000 items you can pick coordinates from OSM. It won't trigger share alike, it's insubstantial and can be stored together.

Isn't that a violation of "Horizontal Map Layers", since it's on the same layer?

Confused,
Lars-Daniel





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