If there is to be an alternate dataset of CC-BY-SA of my OSM contributions would in.they show up on the OSM website, easily accessible or on OpenCycleMap or will all my work I provided under the easy to understand and cc-by-sa license just get completely scrubbed away never to be seen again?

The wiki talks a lot about a "planetfile" but I have absolutely no idea what that means. I just change things using potlatch.

I don't like the new license, I hate how it was implemented, but if it means that the blackmail is going to scrub my data if I don't agree, I will probably have to change my data to public domain to prevent hostile takeovers of it like when contributing to a startup to help it out who them sell it using the work you've done (seems to be a standard business model now [see:google] , which is why I quit helping web startups even if they're great-for now).

I don't want my work to disappear from the easily accessible and usable potlatch because of a bad, bad, bad license decision, but it looks like I have been forced into the corner of either having all my data disappear or to release it into the public domain. Which I am loathe to do, because one of the problem with the public domain license in the U.S. is so many companies are trying to take works out of the public domain and hold them hostage (the movie It's a Wonderful Life, the cartoon character Betty Boop, etc.) Which is why cc-by-sa is such a great license, to prevent those sorts of shenanigans.

So, bah, all my cc-by-sa work is now in the public domain to prevent it from being held hostage by the odbl and contributor terms. Which also means someone could take it, upload it to Google MapMaker and anyone else coming across that data would think it's copyrighted by Google because there is no cc-by-sa license to prevent that from happening. All in all a bad deal for OSM, but okay for any other bicyclists who want to use my data on the OpenCycleMap.

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Well. that was fun.

Took too much time from other things I should have been doing,but I'm proud of my Creative Commons By-Share Alike data I've helped to provide for bicyclists and pedestrians in the Huntsville, Alabama, USA area. Even wrote an article about it last years for the local Alternative monthly paper here encouraging others to contribute. I've done a lot. Most of it well, some of it not-so-well. The beauty of it is that anyone else can add and correct any bugs or changes, so good luck to them.

OSM is superior to other maps I've used for POIs rendered on the maps, so I'll still be using it and the fantastic OpenCycleMap, but I won't be contributing anymore. Unless there's a huge fork that has a license I'm comfortable with.

2 issues mainly: CC BY-SA, yes, that would mean the whole book using a CC-BY-SA map would also need to be CC-BY-SA. I have a hard time believing this was even a question. It's stated right there in the license. And the execrable "non-transferable" rights clause.

A 3rd issue is I really dislike how this license change was brought about by OSM foundation members and not the whole OSM mapping community. That stinks of the kind of commercial bureacracy that FSF, GPL, and CC were formed to prevent and fight against.

It was an amazing project and I was glad to have contributed.

Added some building now that I finally figured out how to do the outline polygons in Potlatch. Another program I use has you press the shift key to connect lines, hence my long learning curve to NOT do that. :)

Added 1/2 of the Bridge Street Bus Route #12 in Huntsville, Alabama. As best I could. One part I think was across a parking lot and there was no service road matching the GPS trace I did, but I wasn't sure if the GPS was way off from a service road or not so I left that part alone.