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> anyone contributing to that in the future means that their data might be used in a proprietary map But overture doesn’t generally allow the type of contribut
by cowsandmilk 3y ago
> anyone contributing to that in the future means that their data might be used in a proprietary map
But overture doesn’t generally allow the type of contributions OSM allows. There is no volunteer to map out a set of houses or streets. Allowed types of contributions are large mapping datasets, typically of the type explicitly disallowed from being imported to OSM.
- timeon 3y agoSorry this is beyond your point, which stands correct, I just want to nitpick: > Allowed types of contributions are large mapping datasets, typically of the type explicitly disallowed from being imported to OSM. Depends on license. There are mass imports in OSM.
- 1oooqooq 3y ago> But overture doesn’t generally allow the type of contributions OSM allows. this is cyclical. the data they contribute is generated by people who freely contributed this data to Microsoft et al. then Microsoft takes ownership of the data, package in their proprietary data sets, and here we are.