Re: [OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:01 AM Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On 09/23/2015 04:49 AM, Randy Meech wrote: > > I used the MapQuest Nominatim > > service to geocode and/or reverse geocode all the global tide stations > > used in the app. Wh

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:43 PM Tom Lee wrote: > If more people can run geocoding services built on OSM data, more people > will have an incentive to improve the map in order to improve their > results. I'm not merely speculating: I spend most of my time working on the > Mapbox

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Eric Gundersen e...@mapbox.com wrote: Let's not kid ourselves here. The overwhelming number of commercial OSM users are not driven by a motivation to help us, but by a motivation to save money (or perhaps a motivation to escape a monopolist's clutch but that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Forward and reverse geocoding existing records is such a huge potential use case for OSM, helping us drive contributions. At the same time it's _the_ use case of OSM where we collide heads on with the realities and messiness of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: This is a solid proposal and has my support. +1 This is a great effort to clarify something that causes a lot of confusion, and does so within the context of the current license. Very productive! As long as the purpose