Are there any studies that show empirical benefits on opening up data? Like, improvements to financial bottom line, or improvements to other tangibles that a company would care about?
It feels like sometimes organizations take a superstitious approach; assuming that holding data is best. As well in this case Google may be beholden to parties from whom they get the data. If those organizations are specialized around map data then convincing them to part with their primary asset seems dubious at best. The argument has to sway many parties. Clearly Yahoo has benefited from OSM - but OSM doesn't have the same kind of profit motive. How about the same between for-profits? How about in other topic domains? If Google and Yahoo shared their map data this could be a win... (or a cartel I suppose). We've argued that participants should move up a level by not competing over data but competing over services. And we've argued that a smaller slice of a bigger pie can be a bigger total reward. Not to mention synergistic and emergent effects of having a real ecosystem. But are there any papers that ground this argument? Eventually our governments might simply legislate a data sharing policy if this turns out to become a real barrier. But is there any way to bring participants to the table more quickly and voluntarily by showing real benefit to those participants? - http://twitter.com/anselm On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:02 AM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 May 2009, at 01:26, Brady Forrest wrote: > >> What is the status of OSM licensing? > > It's a little Kafkaesque but we're nearly done. The main thrust of things > hasn't changed but lots of details needed to be ironed out. > >> What license would Mapmaker data have to be for it to be useable for OSM? > > The same things that would make it usable to Microsoft and Yahoo, therefore > it's unlikely to happen. > > Best > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
