[OSM-talk] mapboox improve the (proprietary database used as en overlay) map

Marc_marc marc_marc at mailo.com
Wed Apr 12 17:59:33 UTC 2023


[1] is the community buy-in for "Organised Editing" in France,
it'sn't really about this thread

[2] is the thread about the issue "improve the now-proprietary database"
but as you can see, not any mapbox reply anymore

Le 12.04.23 à 17:29, Rafael Avila Coya a écrit :
> I would say the discussion is this thread [1] and, specially, this other 
> one [2].
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rafael.
> 
> [1] 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2023-March/106121.html
> 
> [2] 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2023-March/106123.html
> 
> On 12/04/23 17:02, Simon Poole wrote:
>> Am 12.04.2023 um 16:20 schrieb Mateusz Konieczny via talk:
>>> From legal point of view it depends on specifics, but yes it can be 
>>> legal to
>>> render using odbl+proprietary data.
>>>
>>> See 
>>> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Horizontal_Map_Layers_-_Guideline
>>>
>> It should be noted that this guideline follows from the concept of 
>> Collective Databases in the ODbL and in general of the idea of works 
>> that can have multiple independent constituent parts. If what Mapbox 
>> is doing is consistent with the licence naturally depends on the 
>> specifics as Mateusz write, Marc, do you have a link to the discussion 
>> in question?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>> Warning: I am not a lawyer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Apr 7, 2023, 14:21 by marc_marc at mailo.com:
>>>
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     following a discussion on the mailing list talk-fr,
>>>     mapbox "improve the map" now feeds their proprietary database,
>>>     the one that is displayed on top of the osm
>>>
>>>     is it acceptable in terms of licensing to render using
>>>     odbl+proprietary data?
>>>
>>>     ethically it's obviously very bad to appropriate user contributions
>>>     in this way, does anyone have a contact at their end to try and get
>>>     them to return to more ethical behaviour?
>>>     on talk-fr, no one from mapbox has replied since this behaviour
>>>     was pointed out
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Marc
>>>
>>>
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