On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunar...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Check out:
> http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=9878#p194763
>
> A welcome change!
> Hope this will increase the quality of maps in Wiki Projects.
>

Thanks Arjuna, this is a very interesting development. And there is
something quite not right about this announcement. Wikimapia maps are
derived from data given by google through its api. The derived data
inherits google copyright and is not cc-by-sa compatible. Moreover, the
blog mentions the data is under cc-by-sa, but I dont think there is any
mechanism to download the map data from wikimapia. I'm going to raise this
on the openstreetmap mailing lists to figure out if this is legal.

It seems to me that this is not, but will update you guys after I dig a
little more.
-Arun


>
>
> Regards
> Arjuna
>
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