[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Tue Dec 13 19:49:23 GMT 2011


On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:30 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fascinating, I was always taught that reliability was the most important
> thing to end users.
>
> In Ottawa it looks like many footpaths, steps etc will be the big losers.
> The imported road network looks fine.
>
> So it looks like the tools and specialist maps for the disabled, ones that
> make use of details mapped by hand about access will be what suffers the
> most.
>
> Do we care about the end users of our maps, who perhaps have come to depend
> on them.  I suspect the blind community for one will be less embracing of
> OSM if its reliability track record is less than perfect.
>
> Or is it just one of those unplanned things that happens, there seems so
> many with OSM.

This is definitely unfortunate :(

But at this point I seriously doubt the license change is going to
stop (for better or for worse) so here's a proposal: For every message
anyone sends to a mailing list about this, also make an attempt to
contact a local mapper who has not indicated a decision about the
license yet.

Lukcily, I think I see two red and 3 orange objects in my city and
that's it. So I don't have much to do around here but there are more
cities in the area that will see a bigger impact so I will try to
track some people down tonight.

Toby



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