> Within the frame of Prototype Fund round 15 (March 2024 to August 2024), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research sponsored Tobias Zwick to work on StreetComplete for iOS (see progress report)
Usually government data is CC0 or public domain while OSM is not (maybe Germany is different?), so I thought they'd be allergic to OSM's licensing. OSM actually has a lot of problems ingesting data b/c a lot of map data can't be relicensed under their license.
Ironically.. you can't contribute map data that requires attribution to OSM... even though they require attribution..
It's a great project.. but I think they really messed up the licensing in a misguided effort to make the project viral. Maybe trying to emulate Wikipedia. But text and map data are just fundamentally very different. It's really unfortunate. I hope an alternative emerged eventually
> For practical reasons we require that users of OpenStreetMap data attribute the project as a whole and we in turn provide attribution to third parties via the "Contributor" pages. Licences and terms of use that require attribution of the third party data source directly on derived works are incompatible.
"require attribution of the third party data source directly on derived works" is exactly what OSM requires. It's hypocrisy of a sorts
Fnoord · · focus · HN ↗
> Within the frame of Prototype Fund round 15 (March 2024 to August 2024), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research sponsored Tobias Zwick to work on StreetComplete for iOS (see progress report)
And NLnet.
geokon · · focus · HN ↗
<a href="https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_Compatibility" rel="nofollow">https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_Compatibility
Ironically.. you can't contribute map data that requires attribution to OSM... even though they require attribution..
It's a great project.. but I think they really messed up the licensing in a misguided effort to make the project viral. Maybe trying to emulate Wikipedia. But text and map data are just fundamentally very different. It's really unfortunate. I hope an alternative emerged eventually
cowsandmilk · · focus · HN ↗
That’s not true.
geokon · · focus · HN ↗
> Licences that are not compatible
> Licences that require downstream attribution
> For practical reasons we require that users of OpenStreetMap data attribute the project as a whole and we in turn provide attribution to third parties via the "Contributor" pages. Licences and terms of use that require attribution of the third party data source directly on derived works are incompatible.
"require attribution of the third party data source directly on derived works" is exactly what OSM requires. It's hypocrisy of a sorts