[OSM-talk] The long tail - lowest common denominator

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:27:43AM +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> Your list principally covers the use of data contributed to, held in and
> distributed by OSM. One other point that came up on #OSM IRC yesterday was
> the need to ensure that OSM can utilise and respect the licence of other
> available data that would enhance OSM. The TIGER import type data out there.
> Chris Schmidt was interested in the MassGIS data which has its own licence.

Alternatively, OSM needs to take a position where this data is not
suitable for upload directly to OSM, and should be stored in a seperate
repository, possibly also overseen by the OSMF (or possibly by OSGeo, or
some other similar organization). It's a consideration to make, not a
requirement. 

This might be something equivilant to debian's 'non-free' repository, a
secondary way to get additional information from OSM.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer