I'd like to get input on a couple of use-cases under the ODBl:
An organization (US tax-exempt non-profit) operates a UMN mapserver to provide public parks information. They use a shapefile generated from a filtered snapshot of OSM data--leaving only roads--as a base layer. Obviously they will have had to work with the shapfile table schema to create their visual formatting. If they do nothing else but serve this one-time snapshot as a base layer, what are their obligations? Secondly, what if one of their staff, being unfamiliar with OSM but a GIS expert, sees a problem with one or more roads about which they have personal knowledge, and "fixes" those problems in the GIS data only--then publishing the result as a mapserver layer only. What are their obligations in this case? Third: there is the usual problem/condition (depending on your political leanings) of divergence in the tag values. For example, "surface=Dirt" vs. "surface=dirt", "surface=cement" vs. "surface=concrete", etc. I'd certainly want to "fix" that, but if I were that agency, I woulnd't have the time/skills to make a 'bot fix back in the OSM database. I just haven't figured out when, and in what form, consumers would have to "give back" when they use our data. Thanks. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
