On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Simon Poole <si...@osmfoundation.org> wrote:
> If you find use of the term “geocode” on our wiki or help site please > replace it with a generic term (for example "search"), or report it to my > e-mail address. Hey Simon - I find this hard to believe. Can you confirm that OSMF was requested to entirely cease the use of the term 'geocode' in any of its properties? If that's the case, I wonder how much legal ground this has. Even if it was sadly possible for someone to trademark an everyday term it seems we should be able to use it in documentation like the wiki, in help forums, in a blog article, etc. Can you publish the notice? > > Both the use of the term “geocode” and the use of the Google API are merely > incidental to us. Doing without them does not in any way impact the core > goals or operation of OSM. > > Please address any questions on the matter to me by e-mail and not to the > list. > > Thank you > > Simon > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
