Hoi, The position of a bridge, a building, a statue is a fact. It cannot be copyrighted and the only reason for attribution of a map used to obtain such a coordinate is to allow other people to verify the process. Coordinates are available on many Wikipedia articles, they come from a wide variety of sources and are provided by a large number of people. There is no way of knowing what these people used to provide the information with. It is highly irrelevant.
I had a look at your references to entries in mailing lists. The only thing I find is people having an opinion but not providing arguments. Facts, among them coordinates found in Wikipedia articles, are part of a CC-by-sa resource and once extracted from Wikipedia it is no longer possible to claim copyright and insist on a particular licensing scheme. When articles that include coordinates are projected as an overlay on a map be it OpenStreetMap or Google Maps / Earth such an overlay uses the maps as a backdrop to provide orientation in the real world. Thanks, GerardM On 1 April 2010 12:07, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com < jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On this note, there is no real discussion of the copyright and > licensing issues on this page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools > > It says : > There are various ways to obtain geographic coordinates. Note that > regardless of the source of coordinates, it is good practice to > evaluate whether they appear reasonable at first glance. > > Be sure to read the licensing information carefully so that data > providers receive an appropriate attribution. > > So how are these coordinates being attributed? > > mike > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l