[Osmf-talk] Change to WMF Terms of Use: Requirements for disclosure

[Tim Waters]

Perhaps a re-look at the work done regarding groups could be warranted.
After all, it's not that mappers working on behalf of others are a problem
(and that itself can be argued) - it's that it might be good to be identify
groups of individuals as well, as a whole, as a group.
Groups in the platform would assist with this.

It would be a positive additional feature, rather than a restrictive
responsive action.


On 19 June 2014 11:16, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 06/17/2014 11:06 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> > Ultimately, map data is pretty much fact and whether it exists or not is
> > a binary statement.
>
> I took the liberty to quote and answer this in a discussion on the talk
> list, here
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-June/070055.html
>
> In fact (to those who started this thread and are not on talk), there
> has been a discussion on talk which started with DWG requesting input on
> a potential policy on what we called "organizational mapping", here
>
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2014-May/069772.html
>
> Personally I am of the opinion that it would be good to have rules that
> ensure transparency is maintained in cases where people map on behalf of
> others (whether they are employed, contracted, or part of a learning
> course) - just so that everyone can see that here's a group of people
> working on a common agenda. I don't think it would be an undue obstacle
> to anyone. However - for reasons that I did not fully understand[*] -
> the discussion on the talk list was relatively controversial, with a
> couple of people insisting that we have to wait until our house is on
> fire before we are allowed to think about fire safety ;)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
> [*] I believe there might have been a misunderstanding and people who
> regularly instruct larger groups of others to map, like people teaching
> courses or HOT, felt "targeted" in some way.
>
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