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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: François Van Der Biest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/6/25 Subject: [Geodata] [Not free geodata] Google MapMaker To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you know http://www.google.com/mapmaker ? This application will enable Google to create a vector database on countries not covered by proprietary geodata (navtech, teleatlas ...), by letting its users digitalize on google rasters. Will it be a strong competitor for OSM ? Not for me in any case, as long as the terms of use state that : "By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission." A nice move anyway. This might be worth an official OSGeo position, don't you think ? I would not like to see users fooled in contributing to this "geodata blackhole". Cheers, F. PS : OSM guys have already made a response : http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307 _______________________________________________ Geodata mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata -- Piergiorgio Cipriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("perchè la terra dei cachi è la terra dei cachi ..!") _______________________________________________ Iscriviti all'associazione GFOSS.it: http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/iscrizione [email protected] http://www.faunalia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gfoss Questa e' una lista di discussione pubblica aperta a tutti. I messaggi di questa lista non rispecchiano necessariamente le posizioni dell'Associazione GFOSS.it.
