[OSM-talk] Re: privacy policy

[Joerg Ostertag]

I completely agree with you in these points!!!

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Joerg

On Friday 28 July 2006 12:29, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> Martyn has a point.
>
> The legalities of copyright are not apparent to a casual user, hence the
> FAQ. It's been suggested that a casual browser might want to quickly add
> a streetname, or several, without taking the time to create an account.
> It's very likely, in that case, that he/she won't have taken the time to
> read/notice that he can't just copy names out of Google Maps, or
> whatever, in a misguided attempt to be 'helpful' - which then breaks
> copyright.
>
> Secondly, OSM is difficult. I'nm trying to tidy up
> Bloomsbury/Clerkenwell area of Central London, and am finding it heavy
> going. There's a lot of unnamed streets, (all of them are, basically)
> and no obvious points of reference, and not every street is mapped. I
> can see a user picking the wrong street to name (off by one, perhaps,
> and then naming the next half dozen streets adjacent to it from memory,
> and making further errors because the fourth street along the road has
> been missed off the map.
>
> OSM mapping is difficult - I suggest we should be raising the bar to
> participate, rather than lowering it, at least in the early stages.
> Eventually, when 98% of the map is complete, it would be nice to get the
> last few streets cleared up by the public, but when the base map is so
> shaky, I don't think we should let someone who's attention span doesn't
> even let them create an account potentially corrupt the data. It's not
> Wikipedia.