[OSM-talk] Adoption of OSM geometry as state mapping base

[Greg Troxel]

Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, 2:09 am Greg Troxel, <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
>
>> rob potter <pots253 at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> As others pointed out those are website terms.  You want to use the
>> data, not the website, and you should read the Open Database License.
>>
>
> The terms cover data distribution, ie downloading from
> planet.openstreetmap.org so you need to go through those terms to obtain
> OSM data regardless of the ODbL.

Really?  That's huge news compared to the data being under ODbL.  And,
once once gets the data under ODbL, it can be redistributed, and there's
no requirement that I see to impose the Website Terms on others.