[OSM-talk] A super quick poll

[Erik Johansson]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:39 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> the only way you
>> will be happy and viral people will be happy is with parallel projects? That
>> way us viral people will just take all your work and always have a better
>> map.
>
> Forking mapping work would be bad for everyone.
>
> The public domain will benefit OSM.

Why not, make a list of all people who want public domain, then
download the 16GBs of planet dumps and diffs necessary to get all
history. Analyze all history; extracting the nodes and ways that are
contributed PD only, thus creating a subset of the planet dump which
is PD. I agree there are license problems with this, but the intent is
more acceptable, and it would be interesting to see.

If you want to discuss license go to legal-talk.

Regards /Erik