[OSM-talk] osm in flickr
Jochen Topf
jochen at remote.org
Tue Aug 12 07:12:02 BST 2008
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:35:46AM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Martes, 12 de Agosto de 2008, Jannis Achstetter escribió:
> > By the way: How can WE as a project find out when someone uses our data
> > and publishes them without contribution? I mean in commercial maps you
> > have these little known mistakes but we try to avoid them so we can't
> > just say: "You have this mistake in your map so you copied from us".
>
> Well, I think we'll have to fight fire with fire in this case. In fact, I
> discovered the same error in both the cadastrial (read: goverment)
> cartography, and TeleAtlas'. I'll have to pay a visit to the cadastre office
> in early september, and see how they enforce the copyrights.
Hm. Maybe that is because TeleAtlas buys maps from government as basis
for their work? They have been known to do that...
Jochen
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