----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Reynolds" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] The last 2%
Hi,
I am the developer who works on a number of products including OSM
Analysis
for ITO.
I am slightly confused about making the OS Locator box a dashed box if the
not:name tag is present. When we do the processing if any street is found
with the not:name tag matching an OS Locator street then these should not
be
flagged in the stats nor should they be drawn on the map. Are you saying
that this is not the case and they are still appearing? If this is true
then
possibly there is a bug that I may want to address (we are usually a day
behind the updated planet file so possibly its something to do with that?)
With regard to getting the figures down (in slight fear of being flamed as
I
am a very novice mapper) - with apostrophes, if the road sign has an
apostrophe then I would say the apostrophe should be in OSM and if it is
not
then it is correct to flag it as a difference. However if the road sign
does
not have an apostrophe and OS Locator does then probably the road should
have a not:name tag added with the apostrophe version of the name. This
would remove any apostrophe issues. With regard to rural roads - if they
have no road signs is it not better to use the OS Locator name rather than
have no name at all as I think in general OS Locator has been proved to be
pretty accurate? (apologies if in my ignorance I do not know that there is
a
good reason not to do this).
There is one pretty good reason.
OS opendata is released under a CC-BY-SA licence
There is a pretty strong reason to believe that CC-BY-SA data is not
compatible with the new Contributor Terms & ODbL
If you have added any data based on the OS opendata therefore you can not
agree to the contributor terms.
If you can't agree to the contributor terms then at some point in the future
you will no longer be able to contribute to OSM.
Therefore, for me, use of OS Opendata is one more factor which will
complicate my ability to continue to contribute to OSM.once agreeing to the
CT becomes mandatory
Note the above analysis is based on the current situation and assumes:
(1) that the OS will not change their licence so it is compatible with
Contributor Terms & ODbL
(2) OSM does not change Contributor Terms & ODbL so it is compatible with
CC-BY
(3) The Contributor Terms are not changed to allow a user to create a new
account and start mapping afresh
As this isn't the legal mailing list , if anyone wants to debate these
points I suggest they raise them on legal-talk mailing list or,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Open_Issues
David
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