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

[John Smith]

2010/1/16 Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>:
> Interesting. But the catch is, as you say, "only what is edited from
> existing PD data". And if you have different mappers using different

If that's too much of a limitation then more drastic action would be
needed, nothing will please everyone all the time.

> licenses, wouldn't that make it harder for companies like nearmap to
> say "we give OSM license to trace from our stuff"?

This is a completely different issue, and it will be a limitation no
matter if this is done through the existing OSM frame work or not.

With regard to licensing, and even if Nearmap objects to having
derived data made available as PD that doesn't stop other companies or
government agencies from allowing derived data to be released as PD.