This sounds good. And thanks for keeping my request in mind, Eugene!
Unfortunately, I will be out of the country on the weekend of the
22nd. Please let me know if we can. Resched to another date -
weekday, perhaps or on another weekend. I've yet to figure out how to
upload the correct data
Hi,
this topic is discussed every now and then. Facts are free, but you
can't use the help of copyright protected material. If you only copy one
house/street/whatever maybe that doesn't matter. But what if all of us
are doing this? You end up with a 100% copy of the map and than even you
will
Hi Craig,
I saw this question several times here and there and can not agree completely.
I think that Facts/Locations can not be copyrighted indeed, but maps can.
It takes quite a lot of work to represent the locations of items accurately on
maps.
It's much easier to copy from an existing
Hi, everyone.
Thank you for your comments. I do appreciate them all, and I respect you all
for giving them freely. I will, of course, follow OSM guidelines to the
letter, and will in no way jeopardize all of the hard work that has been
done before my very recent arrival. I am, like many, simply
Many people already argued that copying from aerial imagery is not
governed by copyright law. Case law proved it:
http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100
However, Google terms of use explicitly do not allow this:
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/google-mapmaker-and-openstreetmap/
That said,
In case anyone here is interested to create revenues out of OSM data
and clodmade services:
http://blog.cloudmade.com/2010/05/16/cloudmade-services-are-now-free-%e2%80%93-sign-up-today/
The original post is inaccessible at the moment. Copy pasted the content here:
CloudMade Services Are Now
