I have given the 'brief and use cases' page a bit of a tidy up over the past day and moved a lot of the content around.
I have: 1) Put the Use Cases ahead of the brief, because the Use Cases seem to be getting most of the attention 2) Re-ordered the Use Cases to put the most common and simplest at the top 3) Group use cases like with like. Simple maps first, then applications that combine OSM data with other data, and then ones that are about deriving and extracting data from OSM. 4) Cleaned up the wording on some Use Cases 5) Responded to some comments 6) Added a link to the Public Domain Map page from the intro http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Brief_for_proposed_OSM_licence I have done this work as a number of separate edits so it should be possible to see the different changes from the history page. There seem to be a number of outstanding issues from my perspective which include: Should it be possible to licence 'end user experiences' any way one wants, or must they be licenced to avoid the possibility of reverse engineering mapping data from them. My understanding is that once one has put the map into the public domain then anyone can use it as a source of a new DB that is public domain. A slippery map that has PD tiles could rapidly be used to create a PD dataset. If there are restrictions on licencing end-user experiences, then what should they be? The Hand Made Map use case has some claims in it that I have challenged after the use case. We certainly don't have a claim on the artistic elements, but should expect any errors or additions to the OSM data to be offered back. What about wikimapia? Personally it seems like an example of extracting a public domain DB from the OSM while avoiding the share-alike clause and so this should appear in the negative use cases section. Can I ask anyone who has any comments or observations about use cases generally to put their questions both onto the wiki page and also onto this list? Regards, Peter
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