[OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

Joel joelheethaar at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 11:18:17 BST 2009


They do hold the rights to the location of the POIs when based on Google
maps.   but not the information embedded in the POI.
i think that if the POIs were placed on Yahoo's photos it would be legal
(seeing as they gave permission to trace photos)

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net
> > wrote:
>
>> It isn't legal, because the locations are derived from Google Maps.
>>
>
> This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that Google
> have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My Maps or
> other sites). Could you provide some more details?
>
> - Gustav
>
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