[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Fri Dec 17 10:05:27 GMT 2010


On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> A simple assertion that "this is PD" isn't good enough. Lots of people don't
> have any understanding of IP in geodata, and will happily trace from Google
> Maps then say "I declare the result to be CC-BY/PD/CC-BY-SA/entirely my
> copyright/what-have-you". Pretty much the entire quantity of Wikipedia's
> co-ordinate data is like this, for example.
>
> We need some confidence as to the actual surveying method before being able
> to take a PD declaration on trust.

Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the 
data, it should be enough.


Stefan



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