[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports
Stefan de Konink
stefan at konink.de
Fri Dec 17 18:19:39 GMT 2010
On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Blake Crosby wrote:
> On 17/12/2010 12:50 PM, john at jfeldredge.com wrote:
>> Can you confirm that the data came from sources compliant with the license
>> terms, and not from sources such as Google Maps that don't allow their
>> data to be used in OSM? The information at
>> <http://www.ourairports.com/about.html> indicates that at least some of
>> the ourairports.com data came from Google.
>
> I spoke with the owner of the site and he was able to confirm that the Google
> Geocoder was used for the sole purpose of converting the lat/long data into a
> "human readable" format Location String in the format
> <city>,<region>,<country> (for display on the site).
>
> It was not used to gather specific locations for airports or other
> information.
>
> Since I'm not storing these details in the node metadata, would there still
> be an issue?
No. But even if it was used for OSM data, I wonder where the T&C at
Google.com would prohibit the use of the Geocoder in a project.
Stefan
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