[OSM-talk] OSM Philippines to collaborate with waypoints.ph

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Wed Jan 16 14:34:08 GMT 2008


On 16 Jan 2008, at 13:30, Maning Sambale wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the past year, I have been bugging/encouraging local gps users to
> contribute here.  One enthusiastic gps group are the waypointsdotph
> [www.waypoints.ph].  They have a database of gps traces for all over  
> the
> Philippines.
>
> Just this morning, I saw one of the maintainers joining OSM and  
> started
> contributing right-away.  I dropped him a message via the mail  
> facility
> in the  OSM page and he's keen on contributing more.
>
> One thing he asked is if we are willing to allow waypoints.ph to use  
> our
> traces and they will then upload theirs to OSM.  This would be  
> mutually
> beneficial to both groups.
>
> What do others think!  Should we proceed then?

OSM doesn't own the traces, they're downloadable to anyone ccbysa or  
PD if they put their name on a wiki page somewhere.

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/






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