[OSM-talk] Maps and names

[Etienne]

On 9/2/06, Emil <emil79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure we'll get sued at some point by the ordnance survey anyway -
> it's clearly an organisation run by very nasty individuals, who are
> not going to be at all happy with a map that can compete with theirs,
> and will probably be better.


Ed Parsons is one of the people that runs Ordnance Survey.  He has this to
say about OpenStreetMap (http://www.edparsons.com/?p=240):

"In the past I have made it clear that I am fully behind the efforts of
Steve Coast and the OpenStreetMap movement to create copyright free mapping,
the technology is here today and with some bright people and organisation it
is completely practical to produce a national street database for Great
Britain."

The people that run Ordnance Survey are good guys.  Part of their job is to
protect the intellectual property that they are entrusted with by the
government, but that doesn't make them bad people.

Etienne
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