Should we distinguish between the service and the usage of the name geocode?
It seems that the term geocode was first used in the fourtheen century and
comes from old french. Google trademark?
See http://www.memidex.com/geocode
Pierre
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> De : Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>
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>Envoyé le : Vendredi 1 février 2013 11h14
>Objet : Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue
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>Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>> Why is Openstreetmap yielding to such blatant appropriation of
>> the English language ?
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>Because we have bigger battles to fight. Let Google piss their money away on
>defending the term "geocode". If OSM has $1m to spend, which it doesn't, I'd
>rather it spent it on making the site easier to use and attracting more
>mappers, rather than throwing lawyers at a trademark troll.
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>cheers
>Richard
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