[OSM-talk] Multiple OSM instances

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 13:45:31 BST 2010


On 5 October 2010 17:37, 80n <80n80n en gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik en remote.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 80n wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> I'd prefer if you chose the wording: "Which collaborative mapping
>> platform..." - because there can only be one OSM project.
>
> Yes, let's get the terminology right.  That's the kind of thing I'm looking
> for.  How do we make it clear to contributors and users?

How about one OSM project with multiple databases?  In the end it's a
single osm community building all of the databases anyway.  Part of
the community wants its data under a new license.  Another part wants
its data under the old license in case the main database is switched
entirely to the new license by the first group.  And the biggest group
doesn't care.  It'd seem unfair if one of the groups gets the
exclusive right to use the name OSM.

Cheers



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