[OSM-talk] Ideas for OSM enhancements

[Stephen Coast]

On 29 Dec 2007, at 17:56, Laurence Penney wrote:

> Robin Paulson wrote:
>> no need to create a new site, this is exactly what wikimapia.org is  
>> for
>
> Thanks Robin, I'd forgotten about WikiMapia. I got excited when
> polygon editing was added (March 2007), but I think I must have
> decided against diving into it with gusto when I read the license, in
> particular section 1F:
>
> "F. All User Submissions of all users and all WikiMapia data are
> available through WikiMapia Website, WikiMapia API and other current
> or future WikiMapia services for  non-commercial purposes only:
> personal or educational. In addition, WikiMapia provides an "map on
> your page" feature, which you may incorporate into your own personal
> websites for use in accessing the information on the Website.
> WikiMapia reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the
> WikiMapia Website at any time."
>
> http://wikimapia.org/terms_reference.html
>
> Do you know much about the team behind WikiMapia? I and I think many
> OSMers would be worried about the license changing arbitrarily, like
> CDDB/Gracenote.

Er, they may claim a license but if you read the google terms of  
service it's all fubar.

See specifically the bit about making derivative works, and the bit  
about making large dumps of lat/lng points available.

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/