[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture

[Tom Carden]

On 2/14/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
> PPS: Why would a contributor donate resources to OSM if his donation
> become free? Maybe he don't want to maintain the data in the future? Steve
> spoke about a company that delivers letters in London and contributed,
> because they hope that OSM will maintain their map data and so they get to
> free and accurate data.. sounds resonable to me :).
>

eCourier - www.ecourier.co.uk / http://www.ecourier.co.uk/eCourierISAPI.dll?news

They donate raw GPS data because it costs them (almost) nothing to do
so, and they're nice guys who really understand the project and its
background (one of them was involved in launching the CC licenses in
the UK).

Tom.