[OSM-talk] About my stubbornness

[Nick Black]

On 7/24/06, Wollschaf <mith at uni.de> wrote:
>
> >> So if you take the data available how do you remove copyrighted
> >> information from it if you realize that one user have added it?
>
> If such a thing occurs (what a sad world), surely the node and segment ids
> are known.
>
> It is easy to remove special nodes and segments on request, as anybody who
> finds copyrighted information will have to publish the ids sooner or
> later.
>
> It is perhaps even better not to know who put it in there to preserve the
> other work.

No, this would threaten all the work as the publisher must take all
precautions to prevent the breach of copyright.  Ignorance is not an
excuse and all that.

Nick

>Mistakes happen, who knows if somebody claims copyright on a
> way / segment that was added perfectly legal (i.e using a normal
> tracklog)? Will the judge have enough knowledge to understand what all
> that computer technology is about? (Some don't, that's for sure).

This is a risky strategy to pursue.  I'm sure the prosecuting lawyers
would make the judge understand.

>
> > I wouldn't say that planet.osm based projects are "forks" as they don't
> > encourage people to put surveyed data into some place other than OSM,
> > but...
>
> There's always the possibility to take planet.osm and start a project
> where adding data is an option. It is work to get the (a new) framework up
> and running, and is not necessary at the moment as OSM is up and running.
> Hopefully it never will be necessary, but who knows what might happen in
> the future?
>
> If we had an additional planet.gpx, what essential information would be
> missing? Editing information (who did what) and history are not really
> important in my opinion for that special case.
>
> For a project that huge, the possibility to preserve all the work put in
> it (and by that I mean mainly the maps and metadata) should be possible at
> any time. It's always preferrable to have a distributed backup system
> around. I'd love to put planet.osm and planet.gpx on DVD-RAM and store it
> in my DVD-RAMshelf =)
>
> I just don't see why a (complete?) database dump is needed for that.
>
> Wollschaf
>
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