[OSM-talk] Transition to CC-4 instead of destroying data

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 19 December 2011 14:02, Simon Poole <simon en poole.ch> wrote:
> OSM is very different than Wikipedia in many areas, for example
> Wikipedia doesn't really distribute its data for use in other projects
> (commercial or other)  and in so far doesn't have as large responsibility
> towards downstream data users as OSM has.

Wikipedia is much less machine-readable data than OSM, probably less
fit for industrial use and more so for personal use.  And it's
digestible without much processing.  That's the main reason it doesn't
have regular "planet" files rather than licensing or people's
attitude.  OSM *needs* external data users for our data to even be
useful.

Cheers