I was wondering this question tonight. How many OSM users have accepted the new terms, without fully understanding that sources they have used in the past prohibit them from doing so.
So, I wrote a little script to find out and the numbers are surprising. Using my australian test extract from 21/03/2011, I found that 3390 users have made edits in the area of interest (the Australian extract available on osmaustralia.org). Of these 3390 users, 536 have used the tag source=nearmap at least once. Of these 536 users, 134 have agreed to the ODbL+CTs. So, approximately 25% of users who have attributed nearmap (and to be fair, a lot more data has probably used nearmap without proper attribution), have agreed to have their edits released under the new terms. Of 3390 total users in our region, 487 have agreed to the terms. Interesting numbers that show that a lot of users have been mislead or misunderstand the consequences of accepting the changes. If anyone is interested, I can provide the simple C code I used to generate these numbers and/or a list of usernames/uids that are involved. This only shows where there is clear evidence of licence violations without having to look past the data's tags. Im sure if similar figures were generated based on users in nearmap coverage areas, the numbers would be similar. These numbers were also generated from an extract, and not a full history dump, so there may well be cases where tags have changed and would not be counted here. Food for thought David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au