[OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

OSM is the one project where kosovo is ahead of serbia.
We have now 6-8 GPS devices on the ground and a motivated team.
we are using yahoosat and training mappers.
We are importing GNS features and other things.

I dont know about the GMM people, but they dont seem to me informed
about anything.
I would just like to inform them and also get rights to use the POIS
they have given google. I dont want all the data, just to know the
names and general locations of the features, I can have the ground
team doublecheck them and redo them.

I would like to inform them, we need to create some informational videos.
We need to avoid having them read anything and spell it all out.
also we need to make the GUI a bit easier.

What I am interested in doing is getting people to move over to OSM,
and to inform them.
Our team is doing alot of groundwork and we are looking into various
sources of fundings.


Mike

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Will you react calmly if Google send messages to
>>> every OSM contributor asking them to dual-license their data? Only if
>>> you can honestly answer yes should you proceed.
>>
>> HI there,
>> I would never just spam anyone.
>> But there are some really motivated mappers in kosovo, and they dont
>> even understand that they cannot print these maps or use them
>> properly.
>> The guy was still searching for the print buttton!
>
> How good are the Yahoo imagery of Kosovo? The big thing about GMM is
> that they have better coverage than Yahoo has. People just want maps
> they don't care about "free maps", sure they may care about it if they
> can be bothered to understand the issues.
>
> What I have seen on GMM  looks suspiciously  like ppl copying
> information from copyrighted maps.
>
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