Moin, well, it's not only hosting an image collection that makes a good landing site database. The most important part is to keep it up to date, to connect it to a landing field catalogue, add comments and verify proposed procedures that are rooted in real life experience. I know a lot of work has been put into this by various entities, especially in the alps, and is continuously put into ongoing maintenance.
Viele Grüße, Martin Kopplow --- Am 13.02.2012 um 21:32 schrieb Max Kellermann <m...@duempel.org>: > On 2012/02/13 20:54, Tobias Bieniek <tobias.bien...@gmx.de> wrote: >> I just had a short mail conversation with Christian Hynek (the admin >> of streckenflug.at). He basically told me that they will not make >> their database available for the XCSoar users, or in general any >> non-LX/Naviter users. > > Of course a commercial vendor will not allow a free project to use its > data due to conflict of interest. The commercial entity will want to > protect its "killer feature", to be able to survive against XCSoar. > > Our answer should be: we build a new database, or we encourage people > to contribute to an existing free project (if there is one already). > The new free database should be free to use for non-commercial use. > One of the Creative Commons licenses should be suited for this. > > XCSoar has many thousands of active users (~ 10,000 on Android alone). > We should have much more manpower than all commercial vendors > combined. > > We should consider this a big chance, because streckenflug.at's > decision not to support us may be a very stupid decision for them: if > they would allow us to access to their database, we would depend on > their good will and licensing conditions forever. If we are forced to > build a free database now, we will be independent in the long run. > > The XCSoar project has liberated the software market, the next logical > step is to liberate databases. > > (Do photographers get paid by streckenflug.at when they assign their > copyright to the company? Are they aware that the company makes money > from their contributions?) > > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Xcsoar-user mailing list > Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
