On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 13:12, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: >> I guess that the rendering of emergency and humanitarian tags will be >> discussed later, once this crisis will have settled down. Maybe a >> patch to an existing renderer will be developped and kept ready for >> such use. > > Another alternative is not using OSM for emergency situations at all - > instead use OSM technology on a system that is completely empty at first > and then gets populated with all the imports etc.; later, after the > crisis is over, copy selected stuff over into OSM proper. > > That would also neatly solve the license issue; it is inconceivable that > the whole humanitarian community should subject themselves to OSM's > license just because they're using OSM technology. With Haiti, the main > reason we have lots of different datasets being created is that few > people knew of OSM, but even if everyone was well informed, many would > have frowned at stuffing all their data into a system where they can > only retrieve it encumbered by a share-alike license. With a separate, > PD licensed system (such as Mikel has chosen for the Gaza and recently > Kibera), that problem would neatly go away.
I tend to completely agree with Frederik here. Having a selfstanding system able to do the whole openstreetmap toolchain, with a different license (PD). How difficult would it be to create a linux distribution able to boot and provide access to external mappers? -- -S _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
