[OSM-talk] Getting co-ordinates from OSM (was Re: Prolification of the amenity tag)

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Wednesday 29 Nov 2006 19:11, Andy Allan wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> > b) unless you start trying to recreate a map, we don't think you've
> > created a derived work, so we're cool with what you're doing
>
> Minutiae (and facts) aside,  I prefer the intentions of b). I could bandy
> around the term "fair use"; if they are only using a small part of the
> dataset - e.g. 20,000 geolocations (of wifi points? :-P ) out of the
> staggering size of the database, that seems reasonable to me. I'd prefer
> that people didn't have completely free reign to take the entire world db
> and not help us with anything in return.

I have to admit that I'm not too keen on this approach. My understanding of 
OpenStreetMap is to produce free and open data, for use by anyone with no 
upward restrictions. Impose restrictions where people can't reuse the data 
for their own ends and it's little better than the commercial map providers. 

Nick