[OSM-talk] Multiple OSM instances
80n
80n80n at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 15:50:19 BST 2010
It's inevitable that there will be at least one fork of OSM content if the
license is switched to ODbL + CT.
There are already other projects using the OSM software stack (CommonMap,
USGS etc) but none that I know of that are yet using OSM's content. This
will surely change if the license is switched.
So the question I'd like to ask is, what things can be done to make such
projects play nicer and interoperate better when they do happen? I'm not
just interested in technical solutions, but also organisational and
community based solutions. What guidelines should duplicate OSMs follow?
I'm particularly interested in how it could be made easier for contributors
to handle the situation. How will they know which OSM they should
contribute to? Which data source is compatible with which OSM? Can they
easily contribute to more than one instance?
I'm also interested in what can be done to make it easier to combine content
from multiple OSM instances. Suppose one OSM instance has better content
for Australia, while another has better content for India. Some users may
be able, licensewise, to combine the best of these. What things would make
it easier and what would make it harder for that to be done?
Are there any easy and simple steps that can be taken that could make the
existence of multiple OSMs a whole lot less painful?
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