So here it begins, Google Map Maker now available in the US: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/add-your-local-knowledge-to-map-with.html http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/mapmaker/
-Josh On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > > On 4/11/2011 11:41 AM, Ian Dees wrote: >> >> When Google turns Google MapMaker on in the US and Europe*, it will >> become much harder to recruit new mappers to our community (that is >> already quite small). Being passive about this issue means that OSM and >> its more-open data will eventually be drowned out by Google's much >> greater marketing might. > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20055063-250.html > > "...Google won't take input from other community map sources, like Open > Street Map or Waze. There are two reasons for this, one of which I got from > Google, the other unstated. First, the user approval system was created for > this project and isn't even used by other Google services. Adapting it to > other user systems is just not on the project plan at the moment. The > unstated reason: Google's data licensing is incompatible with other > community maps. OpenStreetMap, for example, uses Creative Commons. Google > does not: What you put on Google, Google owns...." > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk