[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[John Baker]

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From: John Baker <rovastar at gmail.com>
Date: 17 Sep 2007 13:10
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion
To: Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com>

I still don't see anything illegal with what I am propsing it is a totally
different case to the 192 one. However maybe a little more caution with
posting results online. Maybe there is another database resource then that
has offical street names in it.

Anyway I am not going to make up a whole site for this and come cap in hand
to you after a year.

I offered help and a solution to what I see is as a large problem with this
project.

You give me the list of "official" street names in a given area and I will
do the rest. And the only advice is you need to do more work yourself before
you can help us out.

If you do not have all the streets in you map project how can you ever hope
of it being the success you guys want. Once you start having cities that
have all the streets in *then* it can become popular. But I cannot see how
I/anyone can use/recommend using this project as we never know when a city
has a complete listing of streets. I would have thought you would have
wanted a more complete city but apparently many here do not.

I would suggest when someone is offering help to an open source project you
try and help them out rather than suggesting higher elistist entry levels
for before helping out.


On 17/09/2007, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 16 Sep 2007, at 11:43, John Baker wrote:
>
> > I can see nothing in the T&C that even remotely stops what I
> > propose. Where is this in the T&C? I can find nothing like this at
> > all.
>
> http://www.out-law.com/page-4294
>
> ftp://ftp.royalmail.com/Downloads/public/cmwalk/doc/active/
> doc22600006/End-User%20Data%20Agreement%20V13.0%2001-09-2007.pdf
>
> Clause 7.1 (b,c,d)
>
> > I am not taking data directly just looking it up and manually
> > verifing the street names.
>
> What I suggest is you go set up your own site, do all this work, tell
> the RM you're doing it and then come back in a year if you haven't
> been sued.
>
> Even if you're 100% right and have God on your side, OSM doesn't have
> the money to defend you in court.
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
>
>
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