[Talk-in] Request for comments

H.S.Rai hardeep.rai at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 04:15:20 BST 2009


Congratulations for nice article.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Ajay Shah<ajayshah at mayin.org> wrote:
>
> An important pure public good is map data. Maps are rival: when I am
> looking at a map, you can't simultaneously look at the same map.

For paper map (depending on size of paper) 2 to 6 person can look at
same map. In case of digital map served through Internet, there can
not be any such limit.

> The licensing conditions of openstreetmap are quite open, though
> not as open as those used by the US government.

In what respect US's conditions are better than OSM?

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H.S.Rai




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