I wonder if Google is going to change their terms of use now they are shedding their major map data providers[1][2]. Being liberated from their terms of use – for now, in the US only – Google is free to conjure up any terms of use for their map data they like. Their 'Google Maps/Earth Terms of Service' still prohibit Google Maps users from creating any derivative work[3] - which a project such as PublicEarth certainly seems to be trying to do. In that way they are in much the same kind of trouble as GeoNames[4]. They seem not to care too much themselves though[5].
[1] http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/09/19/google-maps-now-using-teleatlas-data-exclusively/ [2] http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/10/12/google-replaces-tele-atlas-data-in-us-with-google-data/ [3] http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html - see 2(b) [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geonames [5] http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/262.page martijn van exel http://schaaltreinen.nl/ twitter / skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes 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
