[OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

[Stefan Baebler]

Look also at the positive site:

This mechanism might be in place to prevent a sudden surge of fantasy
streets (or even whole new cities) popping up all over OSM,
vandalizing our data.

Of course, this doesn't make all things all right.

Their "final" OSM derivate is a subset of OSM (intersection of OSM and
other google's sources), which makes it less attractive for importing
into OSM, but it still has high value (double/triple checked data...).
But before even coming to that stage they have an intermediate phase
that could be even more interesting for us (missing roads, which they
use to make the derivate).

Stefan



2009/9/9 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Jukka Rahkonen escribió:
>> > By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and
>> > the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common.
>>
>> Do you think there might be something wrong in doing so?
>
> I do. I think that their DB is a derivative work of the OSM data and that
> share-alike should apply.
>
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