[talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Once upon a time it used to be almost a race to map out new areas from
> Nearmap coverage, now whole areas of coverage go untouched for months
> or longer...
>
> What was once a source of pride in the community can now only be
> described as a 'tragedy of the commons' now that the death knell is
> being tolled on the OSM-F...
>
> I have restarted mapping in earnest, but uploading to fosm.org, I'd
> forgotten how enjoyable it was just to get on and map large areas that
> are blank and to make the map slightly more complete, knowing that I
> wasn't wasting my time to only have my edits reverted later.

I was going to mention that Mosman Council decided to use CC-BY 3.0
for their council geodata: http://data.mosman.nsw.gov.au/data
Also, I hear that Kiwi OSM surveyors are having just as much trouble
convincing OSM-F that their government too has done the due diligence
on Creative Commons for geodata:
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635#comment-222869
As was said on talk, it seems pretty absurd to be moving an open
mapping project in 2011 such that it is shutting out Ordinance Survey
and NearMap when all they ask for is attribution.

fosm.org looks pretty good with potlatch2. Just need a tile server or
to setup my own again - how does one get a big fat planet.osm?