http://geohipster.com/2015/04/27/gary-gale-dear-osm-its-time-to-get-your-finger-out/
Anyone read this blog piece by Gary Gale? Is it worth commenting on? "To my mind there's two barriers to greater and more widespread adoption, both of which can be overcome if there's sufficient will to overcome them within the OSM community as a whole. These barriers are, in no particular order ... licensing, and OSM not being seen as (more) conducive to working with business." 1) Gary criticises OSM for not having a single point of contact for business to liaise with. Exactly why this is necessary is a mystery to me. If business wants to make use of OSM data, they can download the planet file just like anyone else. If business wants to contribute data, or donate equipment or sponsor events, those things are also possible. 2) Gary criticises the ODbL for ambiguities in the share-alike clause. Maybe this needs clarification, but personally I think the share-alike clause is a good thing. Fundamentally though, Gary seems to be under the impression that OSM has a driving need to "compete" with other providers of geospatial data, and that if OSM hasn't "won the race" then it is failing somehow. Which I think reveals a vast ignorance of the motivations of the majority of OSM volunteers. Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had seen the post. Cheers, Nick *********************************************************************** WARNING: This email (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this email without appropriate authority. If this email was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or email me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this email and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this email is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this email does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this email do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Department of Transport and Main Roads, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. ***********************************************************************
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