[OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

Thomas Davie tom.davie at gmail.com
Tue May 29 10:24:01 BST 2012


On 29 May 2012, at 10:15, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:

> At the time it was judged to be important to
> keep reference to the original and data.
> I remember copying lots of old AND tags
> onto my created roads.
> 
> I think what should be leading here is
> the version number, as recorded by the server.
> 
> Whatever excuse there may be, including reference to
> anonymous lawyers, it's simply
> a shame using cut and paste to change ownership
> of nodes and ways.
> It  was me that basically change the majority of 
> this area into a nice, well aligned and usable
> map from the mess (in terms of layout) we got from AND.
> 
> It is up to the new author to use GPS or Bing and
> create a new way, using new nodes.
> That is the intend of OSM, it has always been that
> and it's not because some users are bad/lazy losers that
> cheating can be justified.

I'm sorry that you feel it's "cheating" to take the path of least resistance to valid, ODbL licensed data, personally, I would rather this guy had taken a path of even less resistance – simply tagged the way "odbl=clean".

Thanks

Tom Davie


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