[OSM-talk] open data

[Stephan Schildberg]

I do not agree with this statement.
This exactly should be avoided, that data again could be withdrawn from 
the public. If you you intend to mark those secret places for mushrooms, 
then you can use a payed map already available. The more private 
intentions will build upon OSM, OSM looses its strength.
It should be rather not interesting enough to get used for private 
issues only.
If you contribute to the OSM, the data should be valuable enough for 
other people too. This changes the whole character of the project.
If it remains all open, the data base will grow much more with much more 
interesting data. Data which will derived from myriads of layers 
generated by OSM folks, which will bring money by correlating those 
would bother me a lot!

I would not care about financial contributions and would rely only on 
organizations who will pay for freely.

My opinion to money devoted to OSM, should not go to the GPX-collectors 
and cartographes, this would steel the spirit and would lead to a 
ranking pressure in the community.

Better let it grow slow and with so good servers, than becoming a puppet 
of money you depend on.

regards, Stephan.
> I want everybody to be able to
> make maps of their favourite edible mushroom collecting places for family
> members, without having to publish those places to OSM.