[OSM-talk] [Talk-br] Wikimapa what is it?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Arlindo Pereira wrote:
> Yeah, I've tried to "sell" OSM for them, but they didn't care, they've 
> written a project as a NGO, got a lot of money, and hired a programmer 
> to do a poor Google Maps mashup. Claudomiro even flew from São Paulo to 
> Rio de Janeiro to have a meeting with them, but they didn't cared much. 
> Maybe we'll have more luck as a foundation chapter, I don't know.

There seems to be a pattern there. I recently met someone who was active 
with greenmap.org which seems to be hardly more than a project 
collecting POIs based on Google maps ("OpenGreenMap"). They seem to 
regularly attract government funding for project meetings or printed 
maps of local areas. I saw one such map - it was a Google aerial image 
with a few POIs marked on top.

In the OpenStreetMap world view, their contribution to Open Data is zero 
because Google owns their derived work; yet the European Union and other 
sponsors seem not to care much.

Bye
Frederik