Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong <at> gmail.com> writes:

>I would not preclude payed for work to be honest.
>
>If a company was using OSM for the basis of their product, and their was a
>certain area of the world that for some reason just wasn't being mapped,
>what's to stop sponsorship for those area's?

It would have to be an area that isn't covered by any existing map, or any
widely-available satellite imagery, otherwise the temptation to copy would be
too great.  Paying people nothing for mapping work is one of the best ways to
keep them honest.

-- 
Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com>


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