[talk-au] Haitian Earthquake Emphasizes Danger of a Split Geo Community

[John Smith]

2010/1/16  <morb.gis at beagle.com.au>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only one
> that wants to see it happen.
>
> If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association as
> part of the Samford Mapping Party
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Samford_Mapping_Party_January_2010)
> and vote to see it incorporated
> (http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Association/Incorporation/Agenda).

I would have liked to attend, because I would have liked to discuss
this further with you in person.

> "As it stands right now, even though the MapMaker data is free for non-profit
> use, projects like OSM can't use the data because there are commercial uses for
> OSM and the data belongs to Google, not OSM.

This seems like a spurious argument, ok your suggestion will allow
both projects to "profit" from your data, but any additions can't be
shared back with your suggested project, nor will Google share any of
it's data back, unless it's in Google's own best interest, any data
Google releases won't allow commercial use, so you still wouldn't be
able to incorporate it.

So Google gets free labour, and you get nothing in return... sounds
win-loose to me.