AND donate entire Netherlands to OpenStreetMap
Automotive Navigation Data (AND) is a leading provider of location, routing, mapping and address management are donating a street network of the entire Netherlands. Yes, an entire country.
This is basically phenomenal.
We’ll have our first country complete from this data, which AND and I want to work with the community to import. This is not least because fantastic work has already been done in Amsterdam and elsewhere by the Digital Pioneers supported openstreetmap netherlands community. AND will be at the State of the Map, and you should be too 
Here’s the press release:
AND and OpenStreetMap join forces to create digital maps
Rotterdam – AND Automotive Navigation Data has agreed with the OpenStreetMap Foundation to donate digital maps of the Netherlands, China and India to the OpenStreetMap community. The aim is to create the most up-to-date map in the market. With this partnership AND recognizes the power of a community and the Web 2.0 developments.
OpenStreetMap gives the community the opportunity to create maps with up-to-date geo-data and shows the results immediately. Pure community collaboration at its best. “Overall we want to enable users of mapping data to also be contributors, from reporting errors to doing full surveys.” According to Steve Coast, one of the founders of the OpenStreetMap project.
“It is known that a small percentage of a map is not representing the present situation. With the help of the community AND aims to close this gap and be able to a deliver a map that is 100 % correct.” According to Maarten Oldenhof, CEO AND Automotive Navigation Data.
According to Wikipedia Web 2.0 refers to “a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services – such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies – which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.” AND is busy today with the process of bringing maps online with the possibility of online user generated updating. “We think Web 2.0 will be the ultimate tool for map updates. With this partnership we work with the people that have a keen insight into how a community works around maps” according to Maarten Oldenhof.
Initially, AND will make its street level data of the Netherlands and the major road networks of China and India available to the OpenStreetMap community. “We are very happy with the map donation of AND. With this additional map data we hope to create a bigger mapping community and be able to cover more and more areas” according to Steve Coast.
Hello!
So, the data will be under the same license as the rest of the map, CC-by-sa? That’s awesome!
This all seems a bit strange. AND’s press release quotes Maarten Oldenhof, CEO, as saying;
“…With the help of the community AND aims to close this gap and be able to a deliver a map that is 100 % correct.”
That would seem to suggest that AND want the OSM community to fill in the holes in their map, which they will then ‘deliver’ (sell?), presumably billed as ‘The worlds first 100% correct map’.
But, surely anything derived from the (OSM) ‘community’ will have to be ‘delivered’ under the same CC-by-sa license?
Did I miss something? Do I misunderstand the OSM license, or are AND going to give their future maps away for free?
“Did I miss something? Do I misunderstand the OSM license, or are AND going to give their future maps away for free?”
There is nothing in the OSM license that prohibits people from selling OSM data as maps or anything else.