Peter Miller wrote: >Sent: 04 March 2009 5:04 PM >To: [email protected] >Cc: OSM >Subject: [OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data > > > * (extreme example?) A group of 8 year old kids spend a day in a >local park mapping out locations where they find butterflies. They map this >information using an OSM map and stick a copy on their local parks >noticeboard. Surely they shouldn't be made to make this data available to >OSM? Its not worth the bother for them (or OSM) > > * A wildlife group wishes to map the location of endangered >species. Lacking money, OSM seems like a good resource, but they can not >supply the data and therefore the location of protected species to OSM. So >they can not use OSM and have to spend money on another map? > >Thanks for those. Great examples. I have added them to the Use Cases page. >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Use_Cases >
One thing we should not loose sight of in this process is what OSM is collecting, and thus the limit of what we might wish to see contributed back. The locations of butterflies and endangered species are examples of transient data and some might argue it's not therefore something we would want in OSM anyway. Limiting the applicability of the licence to relevant data is not something I've personally thought about before, but it might need considering if it has not been thus far. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
