[Openstreetmap] Editing, liscence, ownership, etc.

[Lars Aronsson]

wabanstar wrote:

> If I was paid and
> edited full time, you get much more high quality data

Nothing should stop you from pursuing a carreer in GIS consulting. 
You could purchase data from the national Ordnance Survey, improve 
it in some way, and then resell it (with a kickback to the O.S., 
and strict copyright and licenses).  Everybody who works for it 
gets paid, all who use it have to pay, and those who don't pay 
don't get any part of it.

But how is this related to OSM?  It's the situation we had before 
OSM.  It's the old Microsoft way, not the new Linux way.

> Kind of like the market model, except producers get
> paid and investors don't. Less middlemen.

That's what any independent consulting business is about. There is 
no need for capital investment in heavy machinery, just bring your 
brain, and rent it per the hour.  I'm sure that many OSM 
contributors make their living this way already.


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