[OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

[Stefan de Konink]

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SteveC schreef:
> You cannot see the process how Cloudmade, Geofabrik and others
> process their data.
> 
>> Well the huge difference is that OSM is under a reciprocal license,

What a difficult set of words were that; honestly never heard of those
before.


>> Google and others want us to be PD because they don't want to give
>> anything back. 

Never heard that, if Yahoo is giving us aerial photography to trace, why
wouldn't Google do that for us?


>> CM wants to give back all the time, and does.

I don't see how CM can compete in giving back new data, opposed to
Google. Google is not related to OSM an anyway and they still 'do good'
in sponsoring and like for many other OpenSource related projects GSOC.

If CM's primary focus is on creating additional value to the data, for
CM to profit from available data, then what CM is giving back is not in
terms of being a data provider, but just a commercial user like any
other. That makes asking for example for the optimized routing tables
irrelevant because the data is a derived product, but useless for the
community that doesn't have the software.



If we go back to the no advantage not to share equilibrium where we all
started from, that would be a great step a head. It already shows that
when working on PD data we are making data better, I just can't see any
argument that will debunk that statement when company X makes our data
better.


Stefan
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