[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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