[I'm going to break my rule of not posting to the mailing lists for this,
because it's an interesting query and important for OSM. Since I started
writing this, Robert has made an excellent posting which covers much of the
same ground and comes to related conclusions, but from a slightly different
I thought I'd throw in my $0.02 into the discussion as well.
First of all, I think it is good that we are having this discussion and I
hope that eventually we can come to a OSMF sanction conclusion (set of
community guidelines) one way or another.
Overall, I think the route via produced works is
Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote
So the way I see it, if there's any (substantial) addition of external
geo-data along the way, then that addition creates a derivative
database, before the produced work is created. So if you want to
publicly use this database (or any produced work based on
Hi,
On 07/17/2014 01:25 AM, Kai Krueger wrote:
For forward geocoding, the picture gets a bit more murky though, as the
distinction between what is for human consumption and what is data, and thus
a derived database, is much less clear cut.
Indeed. If we were only talking about the enter your
