[OSM-talk] Wikimapia

[Ian Dees]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

>
> Matthew Luehrmann wrote:
> > Wikimapia at: http://wikimapia.org/wiki/Main_Page seems to have the
> > same mission as OSM.
>
> OSM gives you, and everyone, rights to your contributions.
>
> Wikimapia gives Wikimapia, and no-one else, the rights to your
> contributions.
>
> Same mission? No.
>
>
Also, as we've discussed to no end on this and other lists, it is explicitly
against Google's Terms of Service [0] to make derivative works of their
data. Depending on your opinion, your location and jurisdiction's laws,
Wikimapia is making a derivative map based on Google's data.

[0] http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html
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