On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:03:20PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > Frederik Ramm wrote: > > None that I know of; I suppose they have all spent a lot of money to > > be able to process and improve TIGER and they probably want to recoup > > that investment through proprietary licensing. > > > > Is it relevant to us? > > Surely it's highly relevant to your assertion that we would build a > strong community around OSM if it was PD? The fact that none has formed > around an existing large body of geodata ripe for improvement doesn't > help your case.
Perhaps this is true for TIGER, but it seems to me that geonames.org is exactly the opposite: a public domain dataset (vmap0) has been embraced/extended into (in some cases) dozens or more languages per place name, and many many corrections to data. Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
