<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>My thoughts on Google MapMaker and OpenStreetMap, from their test release of Kenya in April<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/04/01/1391">http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/04/01/1391</a></span><br><br>Basically, my reading of this very restrictive license is that it's not only useless for OSM, but for most non-profit uses.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>-Mikel<br><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Alexander Menk <menk-you.should.remove.this.for.permanent.contact@mestrona.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
legal-talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:32:40 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSM-legal-talk] Mapmaker Data for Africa Released<br></font><br>
Hi!<br><br>According to [1], G**gle released the dataset for Africa on [2].<br>They say, non-profit organizations can use it. Does that include OSM?<br><br>Alex<br><br><span>[1] <a target="_blank" href="http://google-africa.blogspot.com/">http://google-africa.blogspot.com/</a></span><br>[2] <a href="https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapmakerdatadownload/" target="_blank">https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapmakerdatadownload/</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>legal-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:legal-talk@openstreetmap.org">legal-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk</a></span><br></div></div></div></body></html>