[talk-au] license change map

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:13 +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
>> I would think the better solution is to have the attribution simplified
>> like Google Maps does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says "Copyright
>> PSMA, MapQuest" etc.
>
> Hang on a second...  you mean you goto google maps, and some of the data
> displayed is coming from MapQuest (which as I now understand, through
> their hiring of SteveC, have rights to a big chunk of free data?)?
>
> Is that a typo, or is that basically exactly what we DONT want to
> happen, when groups like google start using our data as a base, but wont
> even consider giving us access to their data?

The attributions are Google for USA, Sensis for Australia and Tele
Atlas for Europe etc. after this update:
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/11/your-new-map-of-australia.html
So no MapQuest worries!