[Talk-ca] News: Google mapping the North

[Gregory]

On 24 August 2012 15:16, Fabian Rodriguez <MagicFab at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> Great marketing.
>
> I am concerned the mapping (and mappers) data up north will be tainted
> with Google's restrictions - their future participation to OSM will be
> increasingly difficult if they have mapped for Google -no ?
>
> F.
>
> Their surveying data/tools, e.g. memory, paper notes(not on a google
printout) or photos are their own, and they can use these to map for OSM.
But they can't copy their work from Google Maps into OSM, because at the
point they enter it into the Google system it belongs to Google.

If they were paid by Google to map the area, then they be under terms that
the time surveying(and copyright of notes made at that time) belong to
Google.

I think the hardest thing stopping them is a mental one. "I've already
added all those roads to Google, why do I want/have to do it all again for
OSM, I'm bored of sitting in front of the computer".
That's why it would be important to get to people first and explain that
you can't use the map you make for Google as freely as you can use a map
you make for OSM. But unless anyone can fly out there for a competing
workshop or know friends out there, I think it's going to be hard to do
anything about it.

-- 
Gregory
osm at livingwithdragons.com
http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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