[OSM-talk] open data

[Andy Robinson]

Richard, I like your style :-)

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
>Sent: 21 September 2006 11:51 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] open data
>
>Quoting Wollschaf <mith at uni.de>:
>
>> - Commercial use of OSM data should be paid for to finance the ever
>> growing demand of server hardware. Local business displaying a map on
>> their webpage or people selling T-Shirts are usually not rich; They
>should
>> be easily able to afford buying OSM data. (10EUR per map on
>> commercial webpage, 5% of profit for a t-shirt back to OSM?). Bigger
>> projects are out of my imagination. I want people to be able to earn
>money
>> with our free data, but I do not want that none of the profits flow back
>> to OSM. Resulting datasets / maps can be restricted in use, as
>> freedom of source data has been ensured by payment.
>
>I'm thinking aloud here, but would CC-BY let us "name and shame"?
>
>In other words: require that the attribution is to
>www.openstreetmap.org, hyperlinked. Then, on OSM, list those companies
>who are making major use of OSM data, and say how much they've
>contributed to our servers.
>
>I think the risk of visitors from Google Maps arriving at a page which
>says:
>
>- Yahoo! has used 90,000km of OSM and supported us with £2m of
>servers, plus free holidays for Steve and Imi*
>- Google has used 120,000km of OSM data and supported us with
>precisely bugger all
>
>would be a pretty compelling reason for Google to pay up. Good PR has
>monetary worth (and we've proved that, for a volunteer project, we're
>pretty good at PR), so let's convert it into servers.
>
>cheers
>Richard
>
>* not necessarily together
>
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