On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ashik S <aash...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.organd
> 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.
>
You are right. I'm quoting few lines from the Google Maps disclaimer here:
"Geocoding data for map content in Google Local is provided
under license by Navteq... and/or Tele Atlas... and subject to
copyright protection and other intellectual property rights owned
by or licensed to NAVTEQ, TANA and/or such other third
parties."
"Also, you may not use Google Local in a manner which
gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk
feeds of numerical latitude and longitude coordinates."
This was pretty thought evoking and we started to experiment with
OpenStreetMap.
Let us say:* "Our Street ; Our Map! "*
> 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 ?
>
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>
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