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On Mar 14, 2014 8:24 AM, "Jukka Rahkonen" <<a href="mailto:jukka.rahkonen@latuviitta.fi">jukka.rahkonen@latuviitta.fi</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Simon Poole wrote:<br>
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> > One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion,<br>
> are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of<br>
> share alike and that are in general things that the community would like<br>
> to support (so not "evil corp can't take the data now and keep it").<br>
> Concrete in the sense that they are uses that really would happen if<br>
> share alike would be dropped, not "we can build a straw man that shows<br>
> how bad share alike is".<br>
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> Hi Simon,<br>
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> We have considered that we cannot use OpenStreetMap as a background map in<br>
> any of the applications where users are sending location aware information<br>
> back to administration. For showing existing data it would be OK but not<br>
> for gathering data from users because user could locate a place "corner of<br>
> Annankatu and Merimiehenkatu" <a href="http://osm.org/go/0xPLoLTa0?m=">http://osm.org/go/0xPLoLTa0?m=</a> by looking at<br>
> the OSM map. The interpretation of ODbL is that this location is derived<br>
> from OSM data and thus the database of the administration would become<br>
> ODbL. It could be OK in some use cases but some data are confidential and<br>
> ODbL is not an option. Therefore we do not use OSM at all. We use our own<br>
> services and Google Maps.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Foursquare uses OSM (and Google maps, depending on which app screen you are in) to derive/verify venue locations. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Toby<br>
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