-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Op 09-10-11 19:40, Frederik Ramm schreef: > On 10/09/2011 05:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: >> OSMF could be the primary shareholder of a private entity that >> commercially exploits hosting tiles (..and what not more). > > I'm surprised to hear that from someone who usually doesn't trust > OSMF one bit!
That doesn't mean that I trust the shareholders of any other company I get services from? > RichardWeait is right in saying that this would be a recipe for a > PR disaster. Whenever OSMF would change their tile policy - > blocking additional IPs or applications or usage patterns, changing > the definition of what is ok and what isn't - people would accuse > OSMF of just wanting to regulate tile access in order to make more > money with the commercial arm. The idea is indeed that the OSMF would set a tile policy or uses the current policy and enforce it. This will create a level playing field for any commercial provider. Think of the ones that Andy mentioned and are placed on the wiki. I see even an possibility that anyone that wants to use the OSM should dedicated theirself to serve x percent of the tiles as part of a global OpenStreetMap CDN. But I was never an out-of-the-box thinker so ignore my fooling thoughts! > And if your past attitude is anything to go by, then you would be > one of the first to cry foul in such a situation. Since I currently placed my arrows on the distribution and the use of PD, CC-0 and CC-BY data. And work closely with Google to publish our Dutch transit feeds to them as -open data-, I have better things to do, because more people would use my data :) I thought that was the idea of OSMF too: getting more people to use OpenStreetMap ;) Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEAREKAAYFAk6UjJgACgkQYH1+F2Rqwn1rCQCeO4YajWxWOstotj3hHTbiqqv9 dWsAoIC9aCeUS2YM9Ya1eH0CZgvomCpp =BKv1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
