On 25 Aug 2009, at 03:35, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Gustav Foseid wrote:
>> This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that
>> Google
>> have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My
>> Maps or
>> other sites). Could you provide some more details?
>
>
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 12:18 +0200, Joel wrote:
> They do hold the rights to the location of the POIs when based on
> Google maps. but not the information embedded in the POI.
> i think that if the POIs were placed on Yahoo's photos it would be
> legal (seeing as they gave permission to trace phot
Gustav Foseid wrote:
> That is, however, something different from clearly stating "It isn't
> legal,
> because the locations are derived from Google Maps".
You're right. Brevity never really sits well with geodata copyright. :(
cheers
Richard
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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> (Frankly - slight rant alert - I think it's really reprehensible that
> Google
> doesn't pull its finger out and just apply one of its tame lawyers for a
> day
> or two to settling this once and for all. We are now in the ridiculous
> s
Gustav Foseid wrote:
> This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that Google
> have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My Maps or
> other sites). Could you provide some more details?
Getting any information out of Google as to what they do claim, and w
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Joel wrote:
> They do hold the rights to the location of the POIs when based on Google
> maps.
>
I have tried to find something in their terms that verifies this, but have
not found anything. Could you please be a bit more specific?
Even if the use case is slig
They do hold the rights to the location of the POIs when based on Google
maps. but not the information embedded in the POI.
i think that if the POIs were placed on Yahoo's photos it would be legal
(seeing as they gave permission to trace photos)
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Gustav Foseid w
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> It isn't legal, because the locations are derived from Google Maps.
>
This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that Google
have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My Maps or
other sites). Co
Thanks for the info!
to bad though, would have been a nice addition.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> Joel wrote:
> > In the 2nd message on this page you'll read "With regards to intellectual
> > property, Wiktude.me will be implemented under a Creative Commons
> > A
Joel wrote:
> In the 2nd message on this page you'll read "With regards to intellectual
> property, Wiktude.me will be implemented under a Creative Commons
> Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License."
> Could anyone give an answer wether it is legal to import POI
> location+information from Wik
I'm not sure how to do that, but i'll try to figure it out if importing this
data is legal.
I've also managed to get some POI data in GPX format, how do i go about
importing that? i tried JOSM, but couldnt figure it out. (sorry for being
off-topic)
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:20 AM, John Smith wr
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Joel wrote:
> that's something i would check
> yeah. but how much i would check depends on the ammount of
> POI's :P if there are 10, checking every single
> one would be a bit time consuming.
I didn't mean manually, you'd use a query to find out if there were any
si
that's something i would check yeah. but how much i would check depends on
the ammount of POI's :P if there are 10, checking every single one
would be a bit time consuming.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:29 AM, John Smith wrote:
> --- On Tue, 25/8/09, Joel wrote:
> > Doing this would ofcourse
--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Joel wrote:
> Doing this would ofcourse be very useful since it would add
> several thousands of POI's to OSM.
If you do end up importing, make sure you check there is no similar POI already
in the DB :)
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Hi,
After checking if something like wikitude could be done using OSM content i
found some info that made me wonder if wikitude content could be imported
into OSM.
http://www.wikitude.org/add-content
In the 2nd message on this page you'll read "With regards to intellectual
property, Wiktude.me wil
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