[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 17 April 2011 01:53, David Murn <davey en incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 23:36 +0100, 80n wrote:
>> Do you think that Google haven't considered the possibilty of
>> incorporating OSM data into their MapMaker database?  Why do you think
>> they haven't?  Perhaps our data is not good enough for them?  Or
>> perhaps, legally, they don't think they have the right?
>
> I think the 'not good' enough argument pretty much hits the nail on the
> head.  As great as our data may be, any commercial entity probably has
> access to similar data, which they can probably get with some sort of
> quality assurance guarantee.  If google wants maps of a city/town/state,
> they just goto the government of the area and get it.  They know its
> complete, they know its accurate, they know if theres a problem with the
> data that theres only one source to contact.

That's not true everywhere, for example all of the places where google
enabled Map Maker.  It also must have not been true in Columbia where
the google map data supplier used OSM and Google had no concerns with
completness or quality guarantees.

Cheers