<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2012 15:16, Fabian Rodriguez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MagicFab@member.fsf.org" target="_blank">MagicFab@member.fsf.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Great marketing.<br>
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I am concerned the mapping (and mappers) data up north will be tainted<br>
with Google's restrictions - their future participation to OSM will be<br>
increasingly difficult if they have mapped for Google -no ?<br>
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F.<br><br></font></span></blockquote><div>Their surveying data/tools, e.g. memory, paper notes(not on a google printout) or photos are their own, and they can use these to map for OSM.</div><div>But they can't copy their work from Google Maps into OSM, because at the point they enter it into the Google system it belongs to Google.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If they were paid by Google to map the area, then they be under terms that the time surveying(and copyright of notes made at that time) belong to Google.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the hardest thing stopping them is a mental one. "I've already added all those roads to Google, why do I want/have to do it all again for OSM, I'm bored of sitting in front of the computer".</div>
<div>That's why it would be important to get to people first and explain that you can't use the map you make for Google as freely as you can use a map you make for OSM. But unless anyone can fly out there for a competing workshop or know friends out there, I think it's going to be hard to do anything about it.</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a><br>