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Maybe faux pas to reply to my own comment I made further connections with this. I literally had cloned and was fixing OSMBuildings.org because, among other thi

Maybe faux pas to reply to my own comment I made further connections with this. I literally had cloned and was fixing OSMBuildings.org because, among other things, it wasn't clamping values correctly [1] -- it's why my charging markers are white. But I felt conflicted doing that. I was happy with what I spiked with OSMBuildings and started exploring commercial services like MapBox and a few other OSS projects. Operating projects and companies and organizations is not easy. It sucks what happened there. I'm not a hater and actually looked to Patreon or similar Paul Norman -- and maybe the 'vector tiles' earmark literally means that? But, I'm not happy with that previous behavior of the organization... So it's great the OSM Vector Tile service will be dramatically improved... If any of us start doing something interesting with, will we get jacked up like OSMBuildings? Is that the stewardship of this donations? That's the rub. [1] https://github.com/OSMBuildings/OSMBuildings/issues/230 https://github.com/OSMBuildings/OSMBuildings/issues/230

stereo 3y ago
OSMF chairperson here. The osmbuildings situation is unfortunate. They never asked to use the trademark, didn’t participate in community discussions, and used OSM + a very generic term for their project name. Cesium asked for our permission to use the same words, and simultaneously, but not in exchange for any permission, joined as a member to support the foundation. That money went to paying for the infrastructure that runs the project. We never asked osmbuildings to stop using the name. We’ve never granted exclusive trademark permission to anyone - if you wanted to launch a product called “neomantra OSM buildings”, we’d find it cool. If you start an interesting project, pick a non-generic name.

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Maybe faux pas to reply to my own comment I made further connections with this. I literally had cloned and was fixing OSMBuildings.org because, among other thi

by neomantra 3y ago

stereo 3y ago
OSMF chairperson here. The osmbuildings situation is unfortunate. They never asked to use the trademark, didn’t participate in community discussions, and used OSM + a very generic term for their project name. Cesium asked for our permission to use the same words, and simultaneously, but not in exchange for any permission, joined as a member to support the foundation. That money went to paying for the infrastructure that runs the project. We never asked osmbuildings to stop using the name. We’ve never granted exclusive trademark permission to anyone - if you wanted to launch a product called “neomantra OSM buildings”, we’d find it cool. If you start an interesting project, pick a non-generic name.