
Stewart wrote:
Any OSM contributor can appeal any change in the map, and potentially have large data imports removed. (That's what happened with a community approved and Treasury Board of Canada supported countrywide import of buildings across Canada, btw. A mapper in Toronto didn't like that ‘his’ building outlines were going to be replaced, so raised enough of a stink that the whole project was abandoned.)
That's happened to me. I mapped a complicated intersection, on foot, for a couple of hours, adding slip lanes, medians, road signs, and all the amenities. Then someone imported the CANVEC database for roads, and obliterated all the work I had done, replacing it with a simple four-way intersection. I haven't contributed anything of significance since. I haven't checked to see what other work of mine has been obliterated. My first experience with OSM was mapping all of Elmira by bike. JOSM has this neat feature where it adds photos to your track by matching the timestamps, so I took pictures of the roadsigns at every intersection to get accurate street names (and discovered some inconsistencies in signage in the process). Took days. I don't want to look, and find there's nothing left... --Bob. On 2022-12-18 14:58, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
Looks like there's a bit more background from OSMF members here: Overturemaps.org - big-businesses OSMF alternative — https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/overturemaps-org-big-businesses-osmf-a... (note that the poster SimonPoole in that thread is OSMF's legal counsel, or possibly former counsel. He's part of the OSM woodwork, and is the SME for data licensing)
It seems that the main actors in Overture were not happy with the rigorous way that data had to be vetted and approved by community before being allowed to be imported into OSM's database. Any OSM contributor can appeal any change in the map, and potentially have large data imports removed. (That's what happened with a community approved and Treasury Board of Canada supported countrywide import of buildings across Canada, btw. A mapper in Toronto didn't like that ‘his’ building outlines were going to be replaced, so raised enough of a stink that the whole project was abandoned.)
Overture does claim to add some features that OSM (by design) lacks: 3d support, routing and Points of Interest. OSM does have very large corporate users and contributors, but corporate users didn't like the democratic aspect, hence the fork to Overture.
Good luck to 'em. Let's hope they fare better than http://fosm.org/, a fork of the OSM database from mappers who didn't agree with the Great OSM Licence Change of 201x
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