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

[Andy Robinson]

Nicely put Christopher

Cheers,

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Schmidt [mailto:crschmidt at crschmidt.net]
>Sent: 07 July 2006 13:16
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] The long tail - lowest common denominator
>
>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