[OSM-talk] We Need to Stop Google's Exploitation of Open Communities

Josh Doe josh at joshdoe.com
Tue Apr 19 14:42:58 BST 2011


So here it begins, Google Map Maker now available in the US:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/add-your-local-knowledge-to-map-with.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/mapmaker/

-Josh

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/11/2011 11:41 AM, Ian Dees wrote:
>>
>> When Google turns Google MapMaker on in the US and Europe*, it will
>> become much harder to recruit new mappers to our community (that is
>> already quite small). Being passive about this issue means that OSM and
>> its more-open data will eventually be drowned out by Google's much
>> greater marketing might.
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-20055063-250.html
>
> "...Google won't take input from other community map sources, like Open
> Street Map or Waze. There are two reasons for this, one of which I got from
> Google, the other unstated. First, the user approval system was created for
> this project and isn't even used by other Google services. Adapting it to
> other user systems is just not on the project plan at the moment. The
> unstated reason: Google's data licensing is incompatible with other
> community maps. OpenStreetMap, for example, uses Creative Commons. Google
> does not: What you put on Google, Google owns...."
>
>
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