Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Rob
+1 +1 +1 Would love to use OSM data to create a tile server for a project I have in the works but the share-alike clause has stopped me from moving forward with OSM. Rather than share-alike I would like to share-what-I-like but that is not an option. Currently there seems to be no limit to wh

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Ed Avis
Kevin Sharpe writes: >I think we will produce a standalone database that can be uploaded to OSM at >some future time... Maybe someone will take on the burden of resolving the >data conflicts that you have identified. Yes, I think that is the best way. The task of maintaining the data set is rea

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: > I think > the solution is to host the database on sourceforge with an PDDL license and > then automatically upload the data to OSM. If you're going to do that, you might want to look into hosting the database in CommonMap (http://commonmap.in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Sharpe
Sam, unfortunately OSM brings little to the table with almost no charge points documented today (indeed, OSM doesn't even have an agreed list of suitable tags for charge points). This compares with the many thousands of charge points that are already documented in the proprietary databases that are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Nic Roets
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: > I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try > here; > > We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point > locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third > party could

[OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Kevin Sharpe
I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try here; We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third party could extract and use the charge point data without restriction. I have