[OSM-talk] Why do you use Google Maps instead of OSM? Because of buildings...

[Peter Miller]

On 8 Nov 2009, at 20:12, Anthony wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Anthony wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>>>>> Yes, we know that everyone could probably use OSM maps for their
>>>>> business website if they spent a week surveying their  
>>>>> surrounding area
>>>>> / creating custom renderings. But that's not very helpful when  
>>>>> they
>>>>> can just embed Google instantly and get the same results.
>>>>
>>>> And how many of their competitors would also be linked to that  
>>>> site via
>>>> google's linked advertising?
>>>
>>> In this case (http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/about_us/map), none,
>>> because they plagiarized the map.
>>>
>>
>> and from http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/terms
>>
>> The material on this site is protected by international copyright and
>> trademark laws.
>>
>> They don't actually claim to own the material.
>
> More to the point, they don't claim to have created the material.  But
> they do use the work of others without giving those others credit.
> There's no mention of Google, and no mention of Tele Atlas.
>

A brief update - Shaun and I have been sorting this out with CBT in  
the past 24 hours and they now have a new shiny CloudMade slippery map  
interface on their site with the normal CM attribution[1]. They also  
still have their link to the CycleStreets site with a pre-defined  
destination for their office in the link which works really well.

Moral of the story - assume good intentions and contact the  
organisation involved!

[1] http://www.bettertransport.org.uk/about_us/map



Regards,


Peter

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