On 11 July 2011 20:53, James Livingston <li...@sunsetutopia.com> wrote: > On 11/07/2011, at 8:47 PM, John Smith wrote: >> Then why was there such a big fuss made over Haiti edits should be PD >> so that the UN could mix the data with other datasets... > > Because they were mixing the datasets. If you do something like render tiles > within the .au boundaries from one database, and render tiles from outside > the boundaries from a different dataset, then it's fine. > > Most useful things you can do with the data can be split up like this, > besides producing a combined database. Routing? There aren't any roads > between us and other countries, and so on. One of the advantages of being a > island :)
But will the ODBL actual make the situation better or worst? It seems to make everything more complicated, not better. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
