[OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 18:11:56 GMT 2013


2013/2/1 Simon Poole <simon at osmfoundation.org>:
> issue with respect to the trademark GEOCODE owned by Geocode, Inc. of
> Alexandria, Virginia, USA. There are likely to be further related edits and
> changes both on the wiki and the help site. Please do not add such removed
> links back or undo any such edits. If you find use of the term “geocode” on
> our wiki or help site please replace it with a generic term (for example
> "search"), or report it to my e-mail address.


What about replacing it with the German term "geokode" ?

I fully support what been written by colliar and joto. What comes
next? Corporation inc. registering a trademark for mapping party,
mapper or crowd-sourced?

cheers,
Martin



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