[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture

Tom Carden tom at tom-carden.co.uk
Tue Feb 14 18:06:37 GMT 2006


On 2/14/06, Oliver White <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
> Perhaps if somebody were to sell the OSM data on ebay as a CD, it would help
> in the case of other websites who need large amounts of data.
>

Not necessarily ebay, but good idea:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/ticket/136

> The benefit of CC-BY-SA in all this of course, is that anyone who buys the
> data can redistribute it (on their websites, on ebay, on bittorrent, etc.)
> further reducing the bandwidth (and support) burden on everyone.
>

http://www.openstreetmap.org/trac/ticket/137

Tom.




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