[OSM-talk] Maps and names

[Lars Aronsson]

Etienne wrote:

> Unless the lat/long coordinates in the original Wikipedia 
> articles were collected using GPS then chances are that this 
> information was lifted from a map.  Wikipedia's GFDL license 
> would not protect us from the original copyright infringment.

So this makes a list of Wikipedia coordinates quite equivalent to 
the lists from the Geonet names server.

I think that OSM's risk of being accused by map makers is much 
reduced by having Geonet and Wikipedia act as middle men. 
Wikipedia is in reality one big potluck party of facts copied from 
various sources.

> I'm increasingly of the opinion that we should be doing more to 
> enforce the requirement that all data in OSM references it's 
> source (tracklog, photographs, landsat etc).

And we could point to Geonet and Wikipedia as our source for the 
gazetteer, just as much as any other sources.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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