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OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

Posted Oct 22, 2008 23:00 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
Parent article: OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

What's much more interesting, assuming you had an appropriate license — how would you detect proprietary additions? "Look ma, that street corner ain't in OSM, it must be prop!" Happy searching within the number of street corners in the world.


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OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

Posted Oct 23, 2008 0:22 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Proprietary additions would probably be completely different types of data. On the list there was a discussion of a city's database of bus stops, for example.

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