&gt; <i>In general the OSM community errs on the side of vetoing new initiatives</i><p>&quot;New initiatives&quot; are fine. &quot;new bulk data imports&quot; are a different thing. There are many social and <i>technical</i> problems with importing data. De-duplicating data is <i>hard</i>.<p>OSM, unlike OpenAddresses, wants to have <i>one</i> licence for all the data, rather than lots of little licences for each different region. OSM also (tries) to have one hierachial, address data format for the whole world, rather than a collection of different formats for each region.<p>&gt; <i>OSM is now a decade old, has millions of registered mappers, and contains less than 60 million addresses.</i><p>OSM is more than just addresses.