<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:53 AM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/12/18 Kevin Peat <<a href="mailto:kevin@kevinpeat.com">kevin@kevinpeat.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> If it is because of the license then we should take the opportunity to make<br>
> sure our new license is friendly to these kind of applications and uses as<br>
> what is the point of creating a free map if only a minority of people are<br>
> ever going to see it.<br>
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</div>They want to be able to sell map data without giving anything away of<br>
real worth to anyone else, which if we wanted to support this kind of<br>
activity we would just spend out time giving data to Google for free.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>Aw c'mon, Google Maps doesn't "giv[e] anything away of real worth to anyone"? Tell that to the millions of people who use it on a daily basis. A high quality, high performance, extremely reliable mapping platform.<br>
<br>We all have ideological reasons for preferring OSM, but let's not kid ourselves: Google has a great product which they give away for free.<br><br>Steve<br>