Dear Ed an all ..
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Ed Parsons <epars...@google.com> wrote: > Last week Steve Coast contacted us to let us know that he had identified > what may have been OpenStreetMap data in Google Maps of Colombia. We > investigated the matter and determined that one of our providers had indeed > included OSM data in the data-set they provided to us, once we learned this > we removed the data as quickly as possible. Despite the apology and commitment to Google, although our data do not erase, this is a nuisance that discourages our community in Colombia, it is as if we worked for them and not for the osm. > I would personally like to thank Steve for pointing out this problem to us, > and would like to apologise to the OSM community for the unwitting use > of your work in this way. Although we feel unable to license OSM data at > present, we remain supporters of the project, and we will without question > act in a similar way if the rights of the OSM community and your data is > abused. In Colombia we respect the satellite images and other rights of google, despite being a country with few satellite photographs, so the mappers have had to draw the country on our own feet and GPS, Google writes conditions and not to work with their images but if they use our work as their own, this is not right. Google says that a vendor provided them information that they used OSM, we believe they must tell us which that provider was to prevent abusive trading continue with our work. need more than an apology from Google, we need our rights are respected and to help us keep our data is used improperly, it is revealed that includes the name of the supplier who abused. Salu2 Fredyrivera OSM leader Colombia > Regards > Ed > -- > > Ed Parsons, > Geospatial Technologist > Google > > Mobile: +44 (0)78 2538 2263 > Personal blog www.edparsons.com > VC 38814629 > Registered Office: Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W > 9TQ > Registered in England Number: 3977902 > > "It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy." > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > -- Por favor, no me envíe documentos con extensiones .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx, .mdb, mdbx OpenOffice es libre: se puede copiar, modificar y redistribuir libremente. Gratis y totalmente legal. http://GaleNUx.com es el sistema de información para la salud --------------------------------------///-------------------------------------- Teléfono USA: (347) 688-4473 (Google voice) skype: llamarafredyrivera _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk