[OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

[Peter Miller]

>
> (extreme example?) A group of 8 year old kids spend a day in a local  
> park mapping out locations where they find butterflies. They map  
> this information using an OSM map and stick a copy on their local  
> parks noticeboard. Surely they shouldn't be made to make this data  
> available to OSM? Its not worth the bother for them (or OSM)
> A wildlife group wishes to map the location of endangered species.  
> Lacking money, OSM seems like a good resource, but they can not  
> supply the data and therefore the location of protected species to  
> OSM. So they can not use OSM and have to spend money on another map?
Thanks for those. Great examples. I have added them to the Use Cases  
page.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Use_Cases


Regards,


Peter

> I started supplying data to OSM in the belief I was creating map  
> data that was free and could easily be used by everyone. This can  
> not be achieved if the burden of using OSm data is greater than the  
> benefit.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
>
>
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