[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[Mike Dupont]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net>wrote:

> fosm; I embrace the initiative, but you have a lot of "marketing" to
> do if you want people to come to FOSM. A website with broken links, no
> information about who initiated the fork or any insight about the who,
> why and what looks to me like communicating with my bank over a
> http-connection. It feels unsecure. Open some communication channels
> and please grow to maturity.
>


I agree that it is not pretty, that there is a lot of work to do, and not
enough people to do it,

but being locked out of osm is also not pretty.

Back to the topic of lost data, at least we have the data and are trying to
build the tools to preserve it. I hope that once the bridge is rebuilt
between cc-by-sa 4.0 and osm they will accept our contributions back in.

We will see, but I am not in a rush to make pretty webpages, I am spending
my little free time on building tools and code to allow people to map easier
and publish the maps on their own. That is my personal goal, to increase
peoples personal freedom and to provide alternatives. It will take a while,
be patient.

The only reason why we are giving you an unfinished product now is for the
simple reason that it is on topic of data loss in the third world.

many people in the third world dont have time or resources to debate
licenses in English and read emails all day, they also gave us their data
and I intend on not deleting it.

I see this as a long term project, to be able to publish my own OSM maps or
edit a subset of the map without a central server, I have been working on
learning the technology and thinking about how to do this for a long time,
even before the license change I saw a problem in the monolithic
architecture of osm. But it will take a while to solve these perceived
problems.


mike
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