Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia data now under cc-by-sa

2012-06-15 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Am 14.06.2012 15:24, schrieb Arun Ganesh: wikimapia for clarification: * Wikimapia has nothing at all to do with Wikimedia foundation, it is held by a private company (see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiMapia) * CC by SA is something which is not in our interrest as we want to move

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia data now under cc-by-sa

2012-06-15 Thread Mike Dupont
Hi there, this is interesting. Where can the data be downloaded, do you know? I dont seem to find dumps. http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7775 I found an api, http://wikimapia.org/api/ thanks, mike On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: Before you

[OSM-talk] Wikimapia data now under cc-by-sa

2012-06-14 Thread Arun Ganesh
Before you get all excited, I do not think its what it sounds like. See the official announcement here: http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=9878 I'm not certain what this 'wikimapia data' is or where it can be downloaded from. But it seems to be that this could be the placemark

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia data now under cc-by-sa

2012-06-14 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: If this data covers the geographical coordinates which have been derived from google maps service, then it doesnt make any sense. Sense or no sense? I guess it depends among other things on whether you think (and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia

2009-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matthew Luehrmann wrote: Wikimapia at: http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page seems to have the same mission as OSM. OSM gives you, and everyone, rights to your contributions. Wikimapia gives Wikimapia, and no-one else, the rights to your contributions. Same mission? No. cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia

2009-11-18 Thread Ciprian Talaba
Hi Matthew, On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Matthew Luehrmann matthew.luehrm...@gmail.com wrote: Wikimapia at: http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page seems to have the same mission as OSM. Has anyone contacted them to talk about merging the two projects so that we can both accomplish more?

Re: [OSM-talk] Wikimapia

2009-11-18 Thread Ian Dees
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Matthew Luehrmann wrote: Wikimapia at: http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page seems to have the same mission as OSM. OSM gives you, and everyone, rights to your contributions. Wikimapia gives Wikimapia, and