[cowsandmilk]

> 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.

[1oooqooq]

> 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.

[timeon]

Sorry 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.