On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Glenn Ammons <[email protected]> wrote: >> I discovered OpenStreetMap last week > > Welcome!
Thanks! > 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. Thanks for the link. I admit that I'm not sure what to make of it but do appreciate how imports of "experts' data" might discourage contributions from the community. >> 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. Yes. Too bad. I might talk to my representatives about this. It's a shame that state-funded data isn't available for public 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. And pigs might fly :-) Applications like that are not my strong suit. Anyway, even if I did that, others still couldn't use the traffic-count data as grist for their applications. Pennsylvania has so much data on-line. You can even find their contracts with traffic counter vendors. It looks like a simple tube counter costs $500. Hmm...ok, maybe not. --glenn West Chester, PA, USA _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
