Hello, On 29 September 2010 18:19, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: ... > > Why, of course! You will be able to use OS OpenData under the rules they > come under. This is completely independent of OSM. Even if OSM's and OS's > licenses were totally incompatible that would not reduce the usefulness of > one or the other. If you mean "use this (OS) data to create new objects in > OSM", please don't! >
If this were the case, it would actually greatly reduce the potential usefulness of OSM and OS OpenData in my opinion. By combining our surveys with OS data we can produce something far better than either alone. It isn't as simple as just using one as a base layer. For example buildings on OS StreetView can be named, addressed, and have whatever appropriate tags placed on it, following a survey by a OSM contributor. I have done this in parts of Derby - see http://osm.org/go/eu26CMrCH- for example, and I've seen that other people have done this in various other areas eg SE Birmingham/Solihull, and the map has been dramatically improved as a result. OS data is also useful in combination with GPS trails to map roads more accurately - particularly where the GPS track is poor, and wanders all over the place. There are plenty of other ways how OSM surveying and OS data can be combined. I don't particularly want to be involved in this seemingly endless licence discussion (I'm in favour of the change, provided the LWG is correct in saying this issue is resolved, and there is no major data or contributor loss), but have felt unhappy about such comments as those quoted above that the OS data doesn't matter and so it doesn't matter whether the licence is compatible - I and I am sure many other people find the OS data to be a very useful tool for their mapping. Cheers Paul (Paul The Archivist) _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
