[OSM-talk] mapboox improve the (proprietary database used as en overlay) map

[Mateusz Konieczny]

>From legal point of view it depends on specifics, but yes it can be legal to
render using odbl+proprietary data.

See https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Horizontal_Map_Layers_-_Guideline
Warning: I am not a lawyer.


Apr 7, 2023, 14:21 by marc_marc at mailo.com:

> Hello,
>
> following a discussion on the mailing list talk-fr,
> mapbox "improve the map" now feeds their proprietary database,
> the one that is displayed on top of the osm
>
> is it acceptable in terms of licensing to render using odbl+proprietary data?
>
> ethically it's obviously very bad to appropriate user contributions
> in this way, does anyone have a contact at their end to try and get
> them to return to more ethical behaviour?
> on talk-fr, no one from mapbox has replied since this behaviour
> was pointed out
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
>
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