[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

[Toby Murray]

On Mar 14, 2014 8:24 AM, "Jukka Rahkonen" <jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi>
wrote:
>
> Simon Poole wrote:
>
> > One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion,
> are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of
> share alike and that are in general things that the community would like
> to support (so not "evil corp can't take the data now and keep it").
> Concrete in the sense that they are uses that really would happen if
> share alike would be dropped, not "we can build a straw man that shows
> how bad share alike is".
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> We have considered that we cannot use OpenStreetMap as a background map in
> any of the applications where users are sending location aware information
> back to administration. For showing existing data it would be OK but not
> for gathering data from users because user could locate a place "corner of
> Annankatu and Merimiehenkatu" http://osm.org/go/0xPLoLTa0?m= by looking at
> the OSM map. The interpretation of ODbL is that this location is derived
> from OSM data and thus the database of the administration would become
> ODbL. It could be OK in some use cases but some data are confidential and
> ODbL is not an option. Therefore we do not use OSM at all. We use our own
> services and Google Maps.

Foursquare uses OSM (and Google maps, depending on which app screen you are
in) to derive/verify venue locations.

Toby
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