Craig Loftus wrote: > The town I currently map in, Oxford, would be wiped off the ODBL > map, with the exception of a few minor roads.
As someone who's been drawing open GPS-sourced maps in Oxford since even before OSM was started, lives a short way outside the city, knows many of the local mappers, and runs the local mailing list, I can happily say that this assertion is complete nonsense. It shows exactly why you should take these tools with not so much with a pinch of salt, more an entire Siberian salt mine. Off the top of my head, prolific Oxford mappers A, B, C, D and E (names redacted to protect the innocent) dedicate their work to the public domain anyway; mapper F is a share-alike enthusiast but has just confirmed to me that he agrees with ODbL; I've not asked mappers G, H and I but they're sensible, pragmatic chaps with no particular interest in copyright matters and I'd be very surprised if any of them said no. Mapper J (who I don't know personally) is AIUI not keen (largely for reasons of OS compatibility) but is a comparative newcomer who arrived after the city had essentially been surveyed; ITO Mapper suggests to me that his contributions are largely one particular estate and some tag-fiddling elsewhere. So to say it would be "wiped off the ODbL map" is clearly not true. Moral 1: these visualisation tools are fun as far as they go but tell you precisely nothing until everyone has been asked to accept the new licence, which hasn't happened yet. Moral 2: legal-talk is that way -----------------> cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/ODBL-Coverage-tp5743624p5743835.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
