[talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

Grant Slater openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Thu Jul 7 16:02:41 BST 2011


On 7 July 2011 15:09, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> FOSMs not going anywhere for some simple reasons.
>
> The people running it are ineffective, the data will be incompatible when
> OSM switches, fosm doesn't have any of the agreements to derive data from
> aerial imagery. I could go on, but those are the big ticket items.
>
> Everyone should be aware of the theater show that 80n is running merely to
> disrupt the community, and it's very sad that so far he's been successful.
>

Some background...

80n was an original founding member of the OSM Foundation (OSMF). 80n
failed to be re-elected to the OSMF board in 2009 [1]. 80n and SteveC
fell out awhile back...

FOSM is hosted on server resources provided for running OpenStreetMap
XAPI [2], all code is written by 80n (or his employees) in GT.M /
MUMPS "Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming
System" (not a fork of the OSM.org codebase as has been claimed). The
source code is not (yet) available. After approaching 1 year of
operation FOSM has had ~153 account signups. [3]

1: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundation/AGM09
2: UC San Diego hosted server provided by Telascience.org and OSGeo.
3: http://groups.google.com/group/osm-fork/msg/730068be892ea034

Regards
 Grant



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