@JohnSmith Thats very easy: Under the old license a company has to share their products based on our data. With the new license the product totally in the possession of the company and can not legally be copied. The requirement of sharing the data is not hampering. Why would Cloudmade or Geofabrik use something else that their "own" servers to produce output.

Hi guys

Sorry to get back to years of discussion. Just let me summarize my thoughts that i have since reading the license.

Mr. Coast has got a lot of venture capital from finance people. Good for him But now he is in dire need to boost the value of his company. While the old license could not really protect the products of cloudmade, the new one does. So his sales will be higher and the finance instututions will be happier.

My personal opinion is that this background also explains the difficulties of financing osm like wikipedia. Would IBM be willing to finance osm when they indirectly would finance cloudmade.

All this does not interfere with my interest and activity in osm. Coast and his friends have realized an incredible work until i could participate in the project.

But I understand everybody who is fearing to be used by that foundation. And I don't like when these people are attacked in that harsh manner by the foundation people.

Salu Jean

J'ai "mappé" quelques routes dans la petite cote et quand je suis pas trops paresseux je continue de la faire. J'ai corrigé déjà quelques routes (p.ex. saly- ngaparou- somone. Lesquelles routes to sont faux selon ton GPS ?

Cordialement

Christian

As you are obviously an expert in integration of maplibrary data I would suggest that you write an HOWTO on that. I tried to integrate the senegalese adminstrative boders (via JOSM) and i fail as neither can I get the whole Senegal downloaded nor are the gpx data visible. Thank you