Also interesting to note is that their current (initial?) data set contains POIs that were seemingly contributed by random (english sounding) user names. Even in non-english speaking countries most (all?) contributors have english names. Descriptions are of course in perfect local (non english) language. In a town with 20 POIs they are contributed by 18 diferent people, which makes a very low average for someone getting over the burden of registering to contribute.
Seems to me that they are using crowd sourcing public as a facade to do their data laundry. Stefan On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Tim Waters wrote: >> Then there's the nice issue of making a database from users >> identifying locations based on Google Maps. > > You mean that issue nobody except OSM seems to care about ;-) > > If they'd be using OSM, would they have to CC-BY-SA all their data? [Is > that why the aren't?] > > I don't think the business will fly but it's worth a try. It's one of > these things that I'd never attempt because I'd think it is so obvious > how I'm trying to siphon off community knowledge and not let the > community use that knowledge - but quite a few businesses thrive on that > and I can literally hear armies of PublicEarth fanboys cry out "how cool > is that!". Bet they have some kind of iPhone app to go along with it. > > Bye > Frederik > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
