[OSM-talk] Using Wikipedia to add names in other languages

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Sat May 5 15:15:11 UTC 2018


5. May 2018 16:14 by dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>:


> On 5. May 2018, at 15:39, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoniecz at tutanota.com <mailto:matkoniecz at tutanota.com>> > wrote:
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>> How copying location data[1] from Google Maps (or other source) via Wikipedia and Wikidata differs
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>> from direct copying from Google maps from legal point of view?
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> if you copy from Google, it is against their terms. If you copy from a cc0 dataset like wikidata and someone upstream sues you for doing it, you could refer them to Wikidata. 




Are you sure? CC0 has "Affirmer offers the Work as-is and makes norepresentations or 


warranties of any kind concerning theWork, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, 


including (...) non infringement"




https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode>





And "refer them to Wikidata" would not change that we would need redact such data, 


possibly destroying correct and valuable edits 


(see https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karitotp/diary/43824 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karitotp/diary/43824> for a small-scale issue).


 


> Are you sure wikimedia doesn’t have an agreement with google?

I have no idea, I would be happy to discover that my worries are unfounded.

But I have encountered no evidence whatsoever about any methods allowing use to import
data from Google Maps via Wikidata (and I would be surprised to discover one)
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