[OSM-talk] Geofabrik downloads post-licence-change

Stefan Keller sfkeller at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 09:02:21 BST 2012


Hi Frederik

2012/3/23 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Hi,
>
>   this is a small heads-up to users of the Geofabrik downloads from
> download.geofabrik.de.
>
> After the OSM license change is complete and the first ODbL planet is
> published, it will take another day or so to generate the first round of
> extracts and shape files, and daily production will then resume normally,
> with all extracts published under ODbL.
>
> However, to avoid people downloading the new, differently-licensed extracts
> without knowing, we will change the download URL (most likely from /osm/...
> to /openstreetmap/...). The last version of the CC-BY-SA extracts will
> remain, un-updated, under /osm for a while, and then we will make  /osm
> point to a big "url has changed" page.
>
> There will be no automatic redirects.
>
> Bye
> Frederik

Am I right that there are currently no updates available since April
9th at /osm/ and there doesn't exist the new /openstreetmap/ directory
neither because we are waiting for the OSM board's approval of the new
license?

Ciao, S.



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