[OSM-talk] Google Data Liberation Front - beyond amazing

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Ed Parsons gave an unofficial reply:
http://www.edparsons.com/2009/09/liberating-your-my-maps-data/


On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Friday afternoon I made a request via Google's Data Liberation Front
> moderator page that they should sort out the legalities for their aerial
> imagery. This could let people use tracings from Google imagery
> elsewhere, just as Yahoo allows, rather than being locked down to Google
> Maps and its API. We've already established there's no legal barrier to
> them doing so.
>
> Thanks to you all, the support has been absolutely amazing.
>
> In a day and a half, we have 414 votes for the request - I've had to
> refresh three times while writing this e-mail, it just keeps going up.
> Their next most popular suggestion has 136 votes, just a third of our
> tally. We're all over Twitter and elsewhere.
>
> (Lest there be any doubt, this isn't a crappy "I want I want I want"
> petition. This is how Google actively ask you to make your requests.)
>
> What now?
>
> Please *keep publicising it*. Please translate and post to your local
> mailing list. We're not on talk-de yet - that must be worth a good few
> votes! Blog, tweet, tell your friends.
>
> If we're way out in front, Google will listen to us. If we're way out in
> front, we can publicise it elsewhere, from the Guardian to Slashdot. We
> need to show that it's not just a handful of legal bores who think this
> matters - it's really important to a lot of people.
>
> The address is:
>
>    http://url.ie/2ero
>
> Sign in and show your support. I'm bowled over by the response so far -
> let's make it even better.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
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