[Talk-ca] Modifying GeoBase Ways.

[James Ewen]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

> The idea for imports (of all types) is that the data is available to
> 'assist' in the development of OpenStreetMap.

> My earlier example (i forget who it was who i was explaining it to), is to
> treat the data that is being imported as a 'newbie user'.

The issue is that it's a newbie user that puts legal restrictions on the data.

As a plain old OSM contributor, I add my data to the OSM database
without restriction. I do not require OSM to post a notice saying
"James added this data". GeoBase and some other sources of mass data
impose restrictions on the inclusion of the data they provide.

We as the OSM community have chosen to accept the restrictions in
order to be able to import HUGE amounts of data, but it leaves us with
a quandary... how much modification of the imported data needs to
happen BEFORE the attribution can be REMOVED?

James
VE6SRV