[talk-au] license change map

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Mon Nov 22 11:51:51 GMT 2010


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK worst case: Suppose that (and similar) data got deleted. Suppose there are enough people prepared to trust OSM afterwards to re-map the parts that can be remapped.
>
> What happens in the 2-3 years it takes to get back the "surveyable" data? People who use OSM will need something else in the meantime. That's a long time.

Depends what you mean by "use OSM". The "deleted" data would never go
away, everyone would presumably still have access to existing maps,
though it's anyone's guess whether sites like
http://www.osmaustralia.org/ would support two versions of the maps -
the live and pre-deletion versions.

Steve



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