I feel that it is not safe at this point. I have raised my concerns in this thread http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-December/005299.html
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Manuel Reimer <manuel.s...@nurfuerspam.de> wrote: > Hello, > > is it secure to use Bing? Any license risks? Could Microsoft, at some day, > just force us to remove everything with "source=Bing" on it? Am I forced to > have this "source" tag there? Should stuff, taken from Bing, be verified via > GPS track at some time to get the data secure? > > One risk, which definetly exists, is that Microsoft rejects their offer at > some time, so if there is no risk in using the data, I would start to use it > to complete several things in my area (buildings, landuse, ....) as long as > the data is still available for OSM. > > Yours > > Manuel > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
