[OSM-talk] open data

[Nick Whitelegg]

On Thursday 21 Sep 2006 12:36, Tom Chance wrote:
> Ahoy,
>
> On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:30, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> > > I want my maps to be free, but also actually have some use. I'm worried
> > > that by having a licence that prevents most of our potential users from
> > > using our maps (in the same way as they currently use other maps),
> > > we're going to be free but largely useless.
> >
> > One example of using OSM data in a commercial product would be using my
> > Freemap maps (derived from OSM data) in a commercial walks guidebook. I
> > would very much wish to support and encourage this use. I would hope that
> > the OSM licence would not prevent the use of OSM data in this manner.
>
> There's nothing stopping you making those commercial walks guidebooks, so
> long as they're released under the CC BY-SA license :) I'm not entirely
> convinced that you couldn't put together a good business model around that,
> but anyway, I just thought I'd clarify that.

What I mean is - not myself publishing commercial walk books - I have no plans 
to do that - but *existing* commercial publishers of walk books (of which 
there are plenty) *using* OSM-derived maps for *their* commercial products, 
rather than Ordnance Survey maps. In this scenario, the licencing that would 
suit both the publisher and OSM would be one where the *maps* themselves 
would remain free (i.e. the publisher couldn't prevent someone photocopying 
the *maps*), yet the remainder of the book could be under whatever copyright 
suited the publisher. i.e. the OSM licence doesn't "spread" to the rest of 
the book. 

Not sure what you mean about it not being a good business model;  plenty of 
publishers sell walking guidebooks. Using OSM maps rather than OS maps would 
save them money. And increase publicity for OSM :-)

Nick