[OSM-legal-talk] Google MapMaker and OSM data...

[Eric Jarvies]

On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Richard Weait wrote:

> Dear Eric,
> 
> Your replies from Grant (on the server team) and Emilie (OSMF Board
> member) are from people who would normally deal with these issues.
> ;-)

Ok, thank your for clarifying that.

> 
> As far as I know Map Maker does not use OSM data, but no consumer of
> OSM data is obliged to tell OSM that they are using OSM data.  They
> are only obliged to meet their obligations to the OSM license.  So
> currently, consumers of OSM data would be obliged to have a credit for
> OSM data and a notification of CC-By-SA, and in most cases a link to
> both of those would be appropriate as well.
> 

Well, by nature of the edit I made to that way/coastline, I am 99.9% certain it's OSM data being rendered over at the Google MapMaker site.  I looked on their license page and did not find mention of OSM, but perhaps I missed it.  If you all concur that I should share this information on this list, then I will... I will provide you with the way number, and whomever has the experience going back to a previous version/changeset, will need to do so, in order to match the OSM rendering with what is currently being rendered over at Google MapMaker.  

Eric

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