[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture
David Groom
reviews at pacific-rim.net
Tue Feb 14 16:47:28 GMT 2006
Let me make it quite clear that in my original post I was NOT suggesting
charging for access to any of the projects data. When I wrote:
>To this end I believe that even if the basic data remains free there needs
>to be a way of charging for something.
I'm afraid I'm not that technical so I'll have to resort to being overly
simplistic here. But what I meant by that is that anyone should have access
to as much of the underlying data as they wish, and that some basic from of
map, such as the ability to reproduce something like what is on the "view"
tab of OSM should also be free an unrestricted.
What I was suggesting is that there was the possibility that added value
could be created if, for instance, there was an applet which say:
- allowed me to turn off the landsat photo as a background
- allowed me to alter the background colour of the map
- allowed me to turn off / on the printing of street names
- etc
and that maybe this generated an image which I could download. It was this
which I was suggesting could be charged for. If this suggestion still gives
problems, then don't even make payment mandatory, just provide a method by
which I could donate something for that image.
I honestly don't see any difference to my above suggestion, and the selling
of the London Poster.
David
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