On 26/05/15 07:44, Susanna Ånäs wrote: > I am in favour or creating a future-compatible environment, but we > should collect data about where the problems are. > > Source attribution should ideally not be tied to the issue of copyright. > I think it should be a requirement per se in this environment where the > usefulness of the data stems from knowing the provenance of the data. > That information should go down to feature level.
Current data is at least traceable to on the ground objects, so someone claiming to 'own' the data has to have a good reason for it not being in the public domain already? Adding historic material such as when certain features were added which is not verifiable physically is starting to digress into that area. When doing verification of genealogical data, the sources of facts can be identified and the copyright on that source may affect it's usability. In my own case, the location is an important part of that data, and this is where the development of an area provides a cross reference to accuracy of the source data. This is where personally I'm looking for 'open source' access to map scans rather than paid for services as we have with much genealogical data today. The ideal situation would be a database of source material that can be used freely and attribution/provenance would simply be a reference to entry in that database? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ Historic mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic
