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Russ Nelson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On May 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Russ Nelson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What work or creativity did Google do towards the existence of
that particular point?
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<pre wrap="">Google's imagery suppliers collected and rectified the imagery. "For
over a
hundred years, English courts have held that a significant
expenditure of
labour is sufficient" - that's, er, Wikipedia saying that. If they'd
rectified them differently, your 14 digits would be different.
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True, but now you're putting yourself into the ridiculous situation of
claiming that every possible set of coordinates infringes Google's
copyright.
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<pre wrap="">"Openstreetmap is about gathering map data and sharing it. Some
people seem
desperate to import data from anywhere. GATHER IT YOURSELF."
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The problem is that people say "Why should I have to repeat this
work? It's already been done. Why can't we just import it?"
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I wrote the tweet Richard posted. The problem is that much of the data
that is imported is poor quality. If we import data from other
sources, the best we can ever be is a me-too map no better than the
data we import. I don't want to create an also-ran map that happens to
be free to use, I want to create a best-ever map and by-the -way it's
free, and I can't do that by just copying someone else's stuff. At the
weekend I heard from someone visiting Yorkshire who now lives in
Arizona. He thinks OSM is poor because the TIGER import is incomplete
and off by about 100 yards. I tried to persuade him to help, and he
can best do that by gathering data.<br>
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There are good imports of course and some imported data can be better
than nothing, but just importing every thing and anything is not going
to build that earth-moving map.<br>
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So lets get back to creating the very best map of the world, part of
which involves GATHERING DATA.<br>
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Cheers, Chris<br>
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