On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Matthew Luehrmann wrote:<br>
> Wikimapia at: <a href="http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page</a> seems to have the<br>
> same mission as OSM.<br>
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OSM gives you, and everyone, rights to your contributions.<br>
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Wikimapia gives Wikimapia, and no-one else, the rights to your<br>
contributions.<br>
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Same mission? No.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Also, as we've discussed to no end on this and other lists, it is explicitly against Google's Terms of Service [0] to make derivative works of their data. Depending on your opinion, your location and jurisdiction's laws, Wikimapia is making a derivative map based on Google's data.<br>
</div></div><br>[0] <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html">http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html</a><br>