[Osmf-talk] Next OSMF Board Meeting 2017-04-18

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 18 April 2017, Ilya Zverev wrote:
> [...]
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> So the discussion today will be mostly about corporate
> communications, not the map editing. We don't like the imposed
> confidentiality as well, and that will be one of the topics.

Thanks, that makes this much clearer and also makes the confidentiality 
more understandable.  If the company in question has contacted you with 
the desire of confidentiality that should certainly be repected 
although it should be clear that no special treatment can be expected 
due to such confidential communications.

> As far as I remember, we don't have any special policy about
> corporate or paid editing: as long as these editors respect the
> contributor's terms and answer to the community, as we all do, they
> are free to do anything.

There has for some time been a draft in the works for a corporate 
editing policy from the German community with the major contributions 
coming from Nakaner:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Organized_Editing_Policy

This has also been subject of a workshop at the German FOSSGIS 
conference recently.

In light of the editing activities you mentioned and the Facebook 
activities i recently have also created an English version of the draft 
(which is not a direct translation though, it has a slightly different 
focus):

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organized_Editing_Policy

I have not pushed this forward yet, wanted to give it some more time and 
thought making sure not to propose pointless rules and at the same time 
trying to cover everything important.  But if you want to discuss a 
possible policy you might want to take the ideas collected there into 
account.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/