Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
a paragraph that prohibits the use of
On 8 February 2010 01:12, Tirkon tirko...@yahoo.de wrote:
I do understand, that OSM-people will not be responsible for malicious
use, possibly death of innocent humans caused by them or their work.
But this could be caused also by you, if you buy something and thus
support a person, who will
Op 04-02-10 15:49, Martin Koppenhoefer schreef:
AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
a paragraph that prohibits the use of
On 04/02/2010 14:49, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
a paragraph that prohibits the use of
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
data by governmental organisations.
This same issue exists with all Free
On 04/02/10 15:02, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
2) Most governments have far better data than what's in OSM.
When you're a military, things like centimeter accuracy really matter.
OSM isn't anywhere close to that accurate in most places.
You'd hope... but various militaries track records of
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes
correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our
data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up
a paragraph that prohibits the use of our data for military
You would be surprised. The US Military base vector data set VMAP
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Map) is in places far better than
OSM, and in others (think Haiti) OSM is much better. That said, the
military intelligence agencies use this in *conjunction* with other
sources of data:
Since all military organisations in the world can get their hands on
OpenStreetMap data, it rules out the advantage and makes OpenStreetMap
data as common to warfare as the soil they walk on...
I am looking forward to the first edit-war that will turn out to
influence the outcome of a real
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