Fabian Schmidt <fschm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> So far 3700 mappers agreed to the new license. Out of 68 million ways 46% are
>created and edited only by people who did accept the ODBL. 42% were not edited
>by a proponent of ODBL, the remaining 12% of the ways have a mixed history.
>You
>will find a map of the ways colored according to their license (red = CCBYSA,
>green = ODBL, yellow = partly ODBL) at
>http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/
Thanks Fabian, this is a useful tool for showing just how much data would be
removed under a strict interpretation of the process. Almost all roads in the
cities I checked was either yellow or red and so would be impacted.
Although the situation does look dire for Australian cities, this is not
primarily a reflection of the ODBL! It's largely because of the effect of the
current Contributor Terms that makes only original works or public domain works
compatible.
I suspect this will start looking better for Australian cities after improved
terms like the draft v1.2 of Contributor Terms are adopted, and we have
certainty that OSM will keep the data derived from the best aerial photographs,
and that mappers can continue using them as a source.
--
Simon.
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