On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 19:00 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > On 20 December 2010 12:53, David Murn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because of the impossibility to be able to distinguish whats what, any > > user who has ever made a change in this situation will have to have all > > their edits removed from the system, to avoid any possibility that one > > edit might infringe the rights of another source. > > Well, no actually. In my case I've been around doing this for long > enough that a lot of my work was from before nearmap showed up. And > even after then, I've kept a good record of what I did with and > without them, in the changeset notes, and also because I know where > I've been, and what I did while editing those areas. If I'm unsure, > I'd throw it away, but I've got a lot of good data I'd like to keep.
So, can you tell from every edit you did, whether you used nearmap as a reference while doing the edit? If so, you must be one of the very small percentage of people who tagged 100% every change they made, including even just shifting a node or realigning a single node on a way. Also as I said, its fine knowing where youve been, I know where Ive been too, from my GPS traces. However, when I used GPS traces, I then used nearmap imagery often to improve the accuracy of my mapping, so even data i have GPX traces of, I cant be sure whether or not I have improved the accuracy of it with other sources. This means that if you have even one single node moved in your edits, based on a nearmap image (unless you can find exactly what node that is and exclude it) you dont have the right to relicence 100% of your contributions. This is my problem. Sure, I can say all edits before nearmap became available can be relicenced, but like many others, the fact that Ive used a source like this, means I would be in breach of my licence to NearMap if I agreed to the CTs. As OSM and OSMF have no direct care or concern with whether I breach my agreement with a 3rd party, they have no interest in protecting nearmaps rights or the rights of any other group who have shared CC-BY-SA data with the project. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
