Frederik Ramm wrote: >Sent: 03 April 2009 1:16 PM >To: Licensing and other legal discussions. >Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Database rights and who has them > >Hi, > >Peter Miller wrote: >> However... lets not do the work the lawyers should be doing > >And while we're at it, could we not leave mapping to the professionals >as well? After all, becoming a professional cartographer means years, if >not decades, of training and collecting experience which hardly a mapper >possesses... it's there for a reason!
In all walks of life if you spend a few years closely examining a subject you arguably become just as experienced and knowledgeable about that subject as someone who has been trained by the traditional academic route. Most professional bodies acknowledge this and provide routes to professional membership which are based on experience and knowledge, not academic result alone. We may be neither lawyers nor cartographers but some of our number (and I don't count myself here) would I am absolutely sure be able to acquit themselves perfectly well alongside the professionals when discussing and arguing the intricacies of OSM. Providing opinion is an important aspect of learning and long may it continue within OSM. Of course there is good opinion and poor opinion (and this missive may be the latter) but the reader is surely bright enough to decide for themselves. Professional lawyers, cartographers, programmers etc etc can do their work, but that doesnt stop the layman doing it too. Cheers Andy > >Bye >Frederik > >-- >Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > >_______________________________________________ >legal-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
