Saw this in today's mathrubhumi http://www.mathrubhumi.com/php/newFrm.php?news_id=123843&n_type=HO&category_id=3&Farc=&previous=Y
I think we should tell the press about the existence of openstreetmap.org and how google is inviting community to provide data to improve the quality of their product. Once this data is handed over to google, it becomes their property and modifying it is not that easy. ie. the community is going to provide read only data ( read only for the public ) to google. The openstreetmap effort [ openstreetmap.org ] exist to provide public read/write data and can be freely modified. From a practical sense , this makes it more easier for the public to maintain and the data is public and available to all to copy and modify and distribute. The Chennai openstreetmap is an example of community maintained data evolves in quality. I request people on this list who might be participating in the event to upload the data to openstreetmap.org and hence provide valuable map data to the public rather than to a particular company. Google can take the data from openstreetmap if they want. Regarding the security concerns, i feel that it is kind of stupid since the data is available for anyone from satellite image providers for a fee. I think we should tell the press about this. What about sending the press a note ? -- aashik Mandatory Quote: "My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others." -- Jamie Zawinsky -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
