2009/2/22 Sebastian Hammerl <[email protected]>: > now I find the time to post on the community mailinglist and like to > (already mentioned here) introduce myself and CellHunter. > > I am student right now and got together with some friends and imagined > that we could have fun with cellids and games based on there cells. But > for this we need a database to work on and so i started the project > CellHunter [1]. > > CellHunter is a game where you collect cellids together with the gps > position you received this cell. You are working in teams and get points > for each cell you submit. The score for the submitted cell depends on > the type of cell if it is already known or brand new. More about the > point system on the homepage [2]. > > Right know the CellHunter database contains about 450000 entries with > ~9000 unique cells. 35 teams active and we get new cells everyday. > > I know that there a several other cell databases and i contacted > opencellid two days ago and will contribute. Others are welcome to > contact me. > > The license of the data is discussed at the moment, i think it will be > cc-by-sa but because this project is very new and grows faster than i > expected i just want to check available licenses and their pros and cons.
Hi Sebastian, good to hear you're working on this project. i've been working on openstreetmap.org, a conceptually similar project, for a couple of years now - they are currently in the process of transitioning from cc-by-sa to a new license, specifically designed for databases, with the help of a lawyer or two. their theory is that cc is more for creative content, which is not really applicable to osm; this may be useful for your project too. more info here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License cheers _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
