[talk-au] NearMap

[John Smith]

On 16 September 2010 08:11, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> This old saw again, "JohnSmith"?  Every time the community is asked,
> they support progress in the form of ODbL rather than the
> inappropriate CC-By-SA.  Here is the latest feedback for you.

Yes and how many said they haven't even been asked when this came up
on the legal talk list, and shared a similar sentiment to mine, most
of those straw polls only include a few hundred participants at most,
where as most data has been contributed by at least 12,500 people...
Hardly indicative of what most people want, in fact this thread
started off because people were unhappy they could no longer use
Nearmap imagery in potlatch...

> Would you like to contact a CC-By or CC-By-SA data publisher and
> request permission to contribute their data to OSM under ODbL / CT?

Which is a pointless activity, since the CTs prohibit anything but PD
data, ODBL data is *NOT* compatible with the CTs.

> Would you like to participate in the discussion of exactly how and
> which data should be excluded when OSM proceeds?
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2010-August/020124.html

I thought it would be pretty clear that the CTs exclude everything
except PD sources...

> Would you like to recommend to other mappers to avoid problematic
> sources until things are settled in the long term?

It seems my previous emails would suggest otherwise...

> Would you like to meet with, coach and encourage new mappers?

Sure, and at the same time I can tell them how foolish some people are
being about relicensing just to appease commercial companies...