[talk-au] NearMap

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Weait" <richard at weait.com>
To: "OSM Australian Talk List" <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] NearMap


>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On 16 September 2010 07:31, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think that your recommendation is in the best interest of
>>> OpenStreetMap or OSM contributors.
>>
>> Actually how can you or anyone else make this statement in good faith
>> when most of the contributors have never been asked what they want?
>
> 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.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:ODbL_Supporter
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_Rejecting_ODbL
>
> So you can help too.
>
> 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?

Since the CT's are in the process of being revised [1] any agreeement 
currently given by a publisher will surely be invalidated if the new CT's 
are adopted.

So asking a data publisher now to agree to the CT's is quite possibly a 
pointeless and possibly counter productive task.

David

[1]  https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_81272pvt54

>
> 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
>
> Would you like to recommend to other mappers to avoid problematic
> sources until things are settled in the long term?
>
> Would you like to meet with, coach and encourage new mappers?
>