On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>wrote:
> > 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. > > Also, as we've discussed to no end on this and other lists, it is explicitly against Google's Terms of Service [0] to make derivative works of their data. Depending on your opinion, your location and jurisdiction's laws, Wikimapia is making a derivative map based on Google's data. [0] http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html
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