[OSM-talk] Locations from wikipedia?
SteveC
steve at asklater.com
Sun Nov 12 23:34:07 GMT 2006
* @ 12/11/06 11:10:21 PM streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk wrote:
> According to latest planet.osm, we have about 15 city locations copied from
> wikipedia, e.g. node 16173939:
> "source=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmedabad"
>
> http://almien.co.uk/OSM/Tools/Query/?Node=16173939
Times out :-(
> Is this compatible with the OSM license?
Almost certainly not, please remove it if you can;t prove it has a good
source. Wikipedia has all sorts of copyrighted geodata in it, they don't
seem to care.
A case in point is their 'copyright free' london underground maps, which
were derived from google maps.
have fun,
SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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