[OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

[Anthony]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't look like CC-BY-SA is a limiting factor to google:
>
> http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/10/google_australia/
>
> "This is just one of the new data sets that Google Australia is
> planning to incorporate into its Google Maps platform, courtesy of a
> major "open access" initiative by the Government 2.0 Taskforce."
>
> All the data is available as CC-BY-SA

I'm not sure if this email was meant to be serious or not, but I
assume the article wasn't: "There's one data set in particular that
we've been trying to get our hands on for quite some time - which is
the national toilet data set."  Also, it's The Register...  :)