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

[SteveC]

Actually, the license process has been known about for a long, long time so it's not this new turnaround you cast it as. In addition, everyone else (bing, ordnance survey...) has worked with us very reasonably. In fact it's hard to say near map have been unreasonable, just that they were not quite as happy as all our other contributors of similar data.

As for this 'uk mob' thing, that too is unreasonable. As a democratically elected board, we have members from many countries and you are invited to get involved or run for election.

Its certainly difficult to integrate the eu, us and au communities when the timezones are so hard to overlap. I am all ears on how we could fix that. It would be wonderful if someone from au could make it to SOTM. In fact they are running a video competition to pay for the costs of someone to attend.

Lastly, I'll say that I fell out with the last person to ask for my loyalty rather than my integrity or honesty. There is a big distinction. 

Steve

stevecoast.com

On Jul 7, 2011, at 16:24, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 08:11 -0700, Steve Coast wrote:
>> Why did you stop then? Is there no aerial imagery where you are other
>> than nearmap?
> 
> Theres this thing in Australia called loyalty.  You seem to understand
> very little about Australian culture.  Its almost the height of rudeness
> after someone sets up a business to donate goods to your project, to
> then turn around and say 'unless you change your business model, we dont
> want anything to do with you anymore'.
> 
> With the amount of effort that has been gone to to secure the data used
> in Australia to be suitable for OSM, only to have some UK mob make
> changes to spit in the face of all our donors, its very little wonder
> why the masses here have little respect for those who cause trouble
> after we'd gone to such lengths to ask everyone to be compatible with
> OSM.
> 
> David
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/7/2011 8:03 AM, waldo000000 at gmail.com wrote: 
>>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>        ...I believe we should spend energy enlightening aerial
>>>        providers (or wait for them to catch up)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yup, I'm waiting... (I just wanted to point out why I have stopped
>>> contributing - it's not in protest, and not because I've been
>>> "perverted" by 80n. Thanks for your responses anyway.)
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