On 08/04/11 05:47, John Henderson wrote: > On 07/04/11 21:10, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > >> It's sad that this is happening >> A vibrant aussie community has gone down the drain within the last 12 >> months. >> I have spent 3 1/2 years (nearly) adding big tracts of eastern >> australia to the osm map, and now think I will do something else with >> my spare time. > > Agreed. Quite aside from other considerations, the fuel cost and the > wastage of having to do all this work again is staggering to the > individuals concerned. > > It's not as if it can be dome in a lifetime by waiting for OSM > contributors to take all these roads again without going out of their way. > > It wouldn't be nearly so bad if we could simply agree to the new terms > for objects outside Nearmap coverage (and for future contributions), but > have our "contaminated" work removed.
Whilst I agree / commiserate with your basic point (been there; done that; spent the fuel), don't you still have the raw traces from your device? I certainly do, and consider at no point have I ever given up my rights to them. Maybe I am wrong; but what is to stop me from reformatting, retracing or extracting information from these (in my case GPX) traces, and subsequently giving this new work away to absolutely anybody I choose? Certainly it will be a lot of work and a monumental annoyance to do so; but I don't remember signing away this aspect of my rights as primary producer of survey data. Any thoughts? P.S. I make no claim to being a "significant contributor"; but if my efforts are expunged I shall ever harbour deep malevolence toward the organisation that does so regarding the hole in the map which is left; even if nobody else notices! _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
