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

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Peter Miller wrote:
>Sent: 04 March 2009 5:04 PM
>To: jamicubat at gmail.com
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data
>
>
>	*	(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
>

One thing we should not loose sight of in this process is what OSM is
collecting, and thus the limit of what we might wish to see contributed
back. The locations of butterflies and endangered species are examples of
transient data and some might argue it's not therefore something we would
want in OSM anyway. Limiting the applicability of the licence to relevant
data is not something I've personally thought about before, but it might
need considering if it has not been thus far.

Cheers

Andy