Licence/Community Guidelines/Trivial Transformations - Guideline: Difference between revisions

''This is at the proposal stage in our process - it may change after discussion by the OpenStreetMap community''

 

 

 

OpenStreetMap considers Open Data to be a set of intelligently collected or machine-made physical observations only. Purely algorithmic augmentation of data and re-casting of data to use, store or transmit it in different manners is a "trivial transformation" and not, in OpenStreetMap’s view, a useful part of the data IP provided that the original data is publicly available in an open readable format and change is not done deliberately with the prime motive of preventing access. Loading OpenStreetMap data into a database or transforming into other formats does not add any information that needs to be shared '''provided that no other source of data is involved'''.