[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

[Roy Wallace]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> There is no point endangering the
> genuinely collected data for the sake of some lazy copying.

This is not fairly worded. In Australia (and other sparsely populated
areas), it is not just "for the sake of some lazy copying" - this
issue is critical to whether there is any hope of eventually getting
reasonable coverage of street names throughout the country. It's a
big, sparse country.

That said, I am following the wiki, as Dan referred to, which says
"You should not use copyrighted maps in any way while editing
OpenStreetMap (unless it is compatible with our license)".