On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Glenn Ammons <[email protected]> wrote: > I discovered OpenStreetMap last week
Welcome! > and immediately thought that it > would be great to import more data about my current home state of > Pennsylvania. I understand that reaction! It is a common one, too. I think one of the great strengths of the project is that when we see something missing, we can go and fix it. Recently discussion was started around this blog post by a long-time OSM contributor. Matt suggests that imports help the map in the short term but hurt the community. http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/2009/09/imports-and-the-community/ It makes for a good and thought provoking read. Those interested any aspect of the import process might join the imports mailing list. > There is a lot of data available at this website: > > http://www.pasda.psu.edu [ ... ] > THE USER AGREES AND UNDERSTANDS THAT IT MAY NOT FURTHER DISTRIBUTE THE > FILES TO A THIRD PARTY. That seems like a problem, right there. Further distribution, by OSM is exactly the point. Looks like they don't anticipate allowing that type of use. On the other hand that license sounds suitable for you, Glenn, to mash it up and display it with OSM data on your site. You might show OSM as the basemap and add a traffic count heatmap, and an electoral boundary map as selectable translucent layers. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
