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

James Livingston lists at sunsetutopia.com
Fri Jul 8 03:44:22 BST 2011


On 6 July 2011 21:29, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> and also people who ticked the CTs who have used CC-BY/CC-BY-SA sources in
> the past who may want to keep this data and continue using these sources in
> the future.
>

Indeed. Number 9 on the list is
"QldProtectedAreas<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/QldProtectedAreas>",
which I'd assume is an account created specifically to upload CC-BY data, is
marked as having accepted the CTs.



> So, active Australian OSM contributors, are you staying with the OSM db? If
> so how are you going to do edits going forward, because any CC-BY-SA derived
> data you add may be removed if OSM abandons CC-BY-SA at some point in the
> future (or may even be conflicting with your agreed CTs now...).
>
> Are you moving to the fosm db? If so, great! Less problems with trying to
> merge your data into fosm, and we can all get back to mapping. Do you have
> any concerns over the switch?
>
> Are you going to stop contributing data altogether? Or are you putting you
> efforts on hold at the moment.
>

I've not been mapping very much recently, mostly waiting to see how the
whole things plays out (apart from a few posts here and on legal-talk).

-- 
James
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