[HOT] Meeting with WB about MapMaker?
Jean-Guilhem Cailton
jgc at arkemie.com
Fri Feb 3 00:28:10 GMT 2012
Le 03/02/2012 00:39, Martin Holmgren a écrit :
> Hi!
>
> Good luck at the meeting, it will be very interesting to hear the
> World Bank's reasons for choosing Google as partner over OSM. There
> must have been some analysis of the different options, right? I would
> imagine that being extra important for Aleem Walji, for the obvious
> risk of
> his past at Google.org <http://Google.org> affecting the decision process.
Can this be true?!?! This is really incredible!!! Then how can he even
be involved in this?
So it would not be only a matter of antitrust law...
(By the way, Wikipedia.fr has an interesting source. [1])
> So, please post what you have learned back to the list after the meeting.
>
>> Is that too much to ask Google? They don't take requests....
>
> Very true. But at the same time, my view is that Google rapidly are
> reaching a tipping point in the public eye, where the "Don't be evil"
> mantra is so watered down that they either will have to drop it (and
> lose some of its staff in the process, who are loyal to that
> principle) or start acting very differently in some areas. Using the
> crowd as free labor for improving its map offerings being one, privacy
> issues another.
>
> One way for Google to look better than they do right now would be to
> make the results of all purely crowdsourced efforts using GMM
> available under licensing conditions that are compatible with CC BY-SA
> and ODbL. Of course all proprietary data, including edits to such data
> in crowdsourcing efforts, need to be excluded from the data that is
> made more freely available.
>
> Best regards,
> Marty
>
>> PS Yes they have lawyers. But not ones that care about open data,
>> only about not getting sued. Clearly no one who knew any of this in
>> practice was consulted for the MoU. But yes, talking about open data
>> the concepts can be obscure ... I tried to illustrate the realities
>> with some mapping stories: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2012/02/02/1756
>>
>> PPS I don't think that's the root cause for the Bank (though it's
>> clearly something OSM needs to improve. note, I don't think GMM has
>> the best UI either). Rather, I think they are seduced by the
>> association with the most powerful company in the world, which is sexy.
>>
>> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Chris Blow <cgblow at gmail.com <mailto:cgblow at gmail.com>>
>> *To:* hot <hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:12 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [HOT] Meeting with WB about MapMaker?
>>
>> Hi Mikel,
>>
>> While there are several clear solutions that are unrealistic to
>> propose in your meeting, I would just like to see a tool that
>> allows users to to export data most of the data that they create
>> in Google Maps.
>>
>> Is that too much to ask? I can see that a technical barrier would
>> be an way to differentiate between original user data entry and
>> modifications of existing data. If someone edits a big
>> interchange with a 5 year history of 99% proprietary edits,
>> Google isn't going to give that data back. But if you are mapping
>> completely new roads and POIs in the developing world ... you
>> should be able to do a significant export.
>>
>> PS I don't understand how the WB got itself into this, aren't
>> they all lawyers? How can OSM make it clearer that there is a
>> cost to using proprietary data? It has a toxic touch.
>>
>> PPS it seems like better UX and design at OSM could be the root
>> cause of them working with Google in the first place — does this
>> seem accurate? Or are there deeper
>> architectural/technical/business reasons that WB is going with
>> Google?
>>
>>
>> c
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>>
>>> They're talking about me. Don't get too excited. I'll probably
>>> have a lot more to say soon. Would love to hear some feedback ...
>>>
>>> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es
>>> <mailto:ivan at sanchezortega.es>>
>>> *To:* hot at openstreetmap.org <mailto:hot at openstreetmap.org>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 2, 2012 1:37 PM
>>> *Subject:* [HOT] Meeting with WB about MapMaker?
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> A news item got my attention a few minutes ago:
>>>
>>> http://techpresident.com/news/21709/google-world-bank-deal-ask-too-much-crowd
>>>
>>> Quote:
>>>
>>> «Aleem Walji, practice manager of the World Bank's
>>> innovation practice, said
>>> Thursday that he would be sitting down with people from
>>> [...] the open-source
>>> mapping group OpenStreetMap to discuss a partnership between
>>> the bank and
>>> Google that would see the search giant's Google Map Maker
>>> tool put to use in
>>> developing countries.»
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if they refer to someone from the OSM
>>> Foundation, or someone
>>> from HOT. I'd love to see some feedback regarding this issue
>>> over this
>>> mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> --
>>> Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es
>>> <mailto:ivan at sanchezortega.es>> <ivan at geonerd.org
>>> <mailto:ivan at geonerd.org>>
>>>
>>> Here I come when I better go
>>> I say yes when I ought to say no
>>> --
>>> Dragonnette, I come around
>>>
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