[OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content
Gustav Foseid
gustavf at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 11:47:47 BST 2009
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:
> (Frankly - slight rant alert - I think it's really reprehensible that
> Google
> doesn't pull its finger out and just apply one of its tame lawyers for a
> day
> or two to settling this once and for all. We are now in the ridiculous
> situation where Ed writes "Google is not in a position to allow people to
> capture base data such as street networks", even with relation to satellite
> imagery, yet Google appears to allow Wikimapia to blithely sail along
> capturing exactly that into its own proprietarily-licensed dataset.
I could not agree more. It does not help that the terms vary slightly
between the different translations. With a whiter than white approach
(moving more and more towards whiter than even the lightest shade of grey, I
think), this is not something we want to live with for our data.
That is, however, something different from clearly stating "It isn't legal,
because the locations are derived from Google Maps".
- Gustav
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