[Talk-GB] GB License Change Readiness

[Matt Williams]

On 11 January 2012 09:15, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> On 10/01/2012 19:34, Jason Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone provide more detailed info on the final stance of the of the
>> top decliners? Looking at one of the websites, some are Guy, Ed Avis, Andy
>> Street, Simon Ward, Paul Martin and ulfl.
>>
>> I'd given a bit of though to mapping some of the areas that are to be
>> affected by the loss of 'Guy's data in the southwest (a lot of data!). Would
>> be upset to spend time remapping and then find out someone was in talks with
>> him.
>
> Jason,
>
> As I understand it, ulfl will never agree to the new terms and I remap
> everything I find in the UK and Sweden. Ditto with JohnSmith fixme edits.
> You should find that ulfl edits are constructive but bot-like POI
> corrections of tag keys and their spellings and forcing to lower case of
> religions on churches ... just check that the IPR (Intellectual Property
> Right) value comes from you or other accepted contributors.
>
> Guy was contacted in November and again by me very recently but has not
> responded. Not known if contact details valid.  A large part of his
> contributions are unrefined waterway and road digitisations from NPE and
> there is now much better complementary OS25k/Bing/StreetView. I feel that we
> should make a start on these now, (I have, please join me), as it is
> worthwhile whether or not he agrees ... it is just that they get replaced
> rather than refined.
>
> Paul Martin was contacted by me very recently but has not responded. Not
> known if contact details valid. Apparently very unhappy with ODbL.
>
> I have been talking to Ed Avis, Andy Street, Simon Ward. All are reasonable
> people but with particular defined concerns.  I believe I have directly met
> Andy's concerns as per http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Andy%20Street but
> he has not responded since early December. I do not believe I can meet Ed
> and Simon's concerns other than to be very aware of them and pledge to make
> sure that they get properly aired and discussed on an ongoing basis; so I
> appreciate that they have a difficult choice to make. Same with 80n.

Do you or anyone else know the status of Peter "sherbourne" Millar? I
emailed him about a month ago and have heard nothing back. He's
responsible for (or has touched) much of Coventry which is very well
mapped and it would be a shame to lose his contributions. Does anyone
have an alternative contact route for him as otherwise I'll have to
start remapping Coventry myself soon (maybe an excuse for a mapping
party?).

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Matt Williams
http://milliams.com