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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES-EC link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Estimados,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Veo que hemos perdido algunas ciudades importantes en nuestro mapa, lo que tenemos es que recuperar lo perdido y volver a trabajar en ello, sería bueno saber qué mapas tenemos (legales) entre los participantes de este grupo para coordinar el trabajo.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saludos cordiales<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Arturo Aguirre R.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Temporalista [mailto:temporalista@gmail.com] <br><b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 21 de enero de 2011 03:48<br><b>Para:</b> OpenStreetMap Ecuador<br><b>Asunto:</b> Re: [Talk-ec] Removal of suspected copyrighted data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Frederik<br><br>Thanks for your mail.<br><br>In fact, we've been discussing this issue in the ecuadorian OSM community.<br><br>Please, would you mind to give us some advice on how to proceed with this kind of CR violations. So far what we did is:<br><br>1.- Look for clues that may indicate that the data comes from a different source than surveying (large edits, non-standard tags, etc.)<br><br>2.- Attempt to contact the user and set a deadline to proof his/her data is compatible with the OSM licence.<br><br>3.- Warn the community to not edit the data in question until the issue is closed.<br><br>4.- Seek for advice/support from OSM groups to delete data / revert changes.<br><br>Thanks for taking action, and don't worry: we'll keep good mapping.<br><br>Abrazos<br><br>daniel<br clear=all>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Daniel Orellana V.<br>Lab. of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing<br>Wageningen University, Wageningen<br>The Netherlands<br><a href="http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK" target="_blank">http://www.grs.wur.nl/UK</a><br><br>Room C216, Gaia, Building 101, Bode 37<br>Tel.: +31 (0) 317 482092<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:30, Frederik Ramm <<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear contributors in Ecuador,<br><br> I am writing to you on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group. We deal with copyright violations.<br><br>Earlier this month we have been made aware of striking similarities between OSM data in a number of cities (Ambato, Santo Domingo, Esmeraldas, Riobamba) and commercial data from a map provider called Location World.<br><br>We have analysed these similarities and concluded that someone has uploaded copyrighted data from that source, on a large scale (roughly 10,000 ways and 50,000 nodes) to OSM in September 2010.<br><br>The uploader has not responded to our attempts at contacting him.<br><br>As I'm sure you know, we have to take these matters seriously. OSM can only thrive if stick to truly free data; we cannot import data from copyrighted sources.<br><br>Therefore we are removing all the infringing content. Sadly, in some places others have edited the data after it had been uploaded; these edits are now also lost.<br><br>The changesets in which the removal is executed are:<br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7036124" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7036124</a><br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7034729" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/7034729</a><br><br>I am sorry to have to bring you this message; we're all mappers here at the DWG and it hurts us as much as it hurts you to see data vanish from the map. But we have to stick to what's legal. I hope that this does not prove to be too much of a setback for the industrious OSM community in Ecuador.<br><br>Keep up the good work!<br><br>Best wishes<br>Frederik Ramm<br>for the Data Working Group (<a href="mailto:data@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">data@osmfoundation.org</a>)<br><span style='color:#888888'><br>-- <br>Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-ec mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Talk-ec@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-ec@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ec" target="_blank">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ec</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>