If they did sue, could Nomination, Osmand or OSM be liable if we implement it?
-- Andrew ________________________________ From: Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> Sent: 11 August 2018 09:43 To: Blake Girardot Cc: OpenStreetMap Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search? Am 10.08.2018 um 23:25 schrieb Blake Girardot: > Is that not the reason OSM was started in the first place? :) It is slightly different in more than one way for a monopoly owner to pre-emptively create and promote a free system to stop a competitor from gaining a foothold in a potential new market (and the goog is obviously spending a fair bit of small change on the whole thing). I suspect suing the goog is plan b for the w3w investors if they are not successful with the company as such.
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