2009/12/17 Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> > The quality of OpenStreetMap's work speaks for itself, but it seems that > we need to speak about it too - especially now that Google is attempting > to to appear as holding the moral high ground by using terms such as > "citizen cartographer" that they rob of its meaning by conveniently > forgetting to mention the license under which the contributed data is > held. But in the eye of the public, the $50000 UNICEF donation to the > home country of the winner of the Map Maker Global Challenge lets them > appear as charitable citizens. We need to explain why it is a fraud, so > that motivated aspiring cartographers are not tempted to give away their > souls for free. I could understand that they sell it, but giving it to > Google for free is a bit too much - we must tell them. I'm pretty sure > that good geographic data available to anyone for free will do more for > the least developed communities than a 50k USD grant. > > I answered this piece at ReadWriteWeb and I suggest that you keep an eye > for opportunities to answer this sort of propaganda against libre mapping : > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_announces_map_contest_50k_for_adding_school.php#comment-175013 >
You can add this link in terms of moral high ground: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/climate-tools-for-copenhagen-and-beyond.html
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