On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in the first case, there is room for two attributions - one is the > proposed read-only tag, called attribution, which is set to 'linz' or > whatever. the second is from the edit history, retrieved by the API, > set to the username of an osm user, updated whenever the item is > tweaked (i.e. write and read) > > in the second case,....well i see this as unlikely. how any orgs are > willing to go to the cost of creating a duplicate data set for an area > (by which i mean same data, same area), when they can get one that > exists immediately?
I know you think this is hypothetical but it's a very real problem. In NL we got the AND data and in the next year or two we will get access to the NWB, which is the map compiled by the govt. It's not clear at all that one is going to be better than the other and merging them is going to be a real problem. It's fortunate that neither ask for attribution or we'd have a serious problem on our hands. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk