2014-07-14 20:26 GMT+02:00 Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com>: > Just like how CC-BY-SA created a grey area around the SA implications for > the rendered map which wasn't good for OSM, ODbL does the same with > permanent geocoding. To make OSM viable for geocoding we can't have its > ODbL infecting the datasets it's used on. > > There are tons of geodatasets out there waiting to be geocoded and we > should have clarity around the legal implications of doing that. More use > of OSM for geocoding means more incentives to keep and maintain geocoding > data (addresses, POIs, admin polygons) in OSM. >
I think for what you want you should push for a license change, and not for guidelines... I also fail to understand how a database of coordinates could qualify as "produced work". cheers, Martin
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