[OSM-talk] Live Data - all new Data in OSM

[Jonathan Bennett]

Ian Dees wrote:
> Woah! Since when can OSM tell me what sort of applications I can and
> can't write with the open source data that OSM is providing**?

You're not being told what to do with the data, but it's being suggested
to you that you can't have it in a particular, resource-intensive format
unless you can justify why you need it over and above an existing, less
resource hungry format, for an application that does something other
than go "Ooooh, shiny!"

> OSM isn't about the geodata, it's about the data. That includes the fact
> that it is in the geographic domain, but it also means that we can
> manipulate it or store it however we want.

You can. On your own infrastructure.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)