> Now please, take the legal debates back to legal-talk and stop trying to > move them around.
I'm not some pro CT apparatchik trying to spread FUD, and I don't appreciate the hostile reaction. I obviously asked a very silly or very old question. >> Does any one have an objective update on how the OS issue >> stands with regard to the new CTs? > Now you're assuming that the CTs are not compatible with OpenData, a > question which has yet to be resolved - some people believe that they > are compatible. Actually I wasn't assuming they're not compatible, I was asking about the "OS issue" which I remember being the reason for why I "can't possibly click agree yet". Given your reaction I assume the issue is still up in the air, being shot at by everyone man and his dog. > 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. I wasn't suggesting that Oxford was mapped using OpenData licensed content. I was actually using the visualisation with the understanding that there was a strong OSM community in Oxford and that the visualisation might therefore be used as a proxy measure of those who are waiting for the OS issue to be resolved before agreeing to the terms. > 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. I'm afraid you misread Mapper J, he has no particular interest in copyright matters, but doesn't want to see his tag-fiddling, whatever its perceived value, go to waste. Cheers, Craig On 16 November 2010 13:41, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
