Russ Nelson wrote: > On May 6, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Dair Grant wrote: > >> Russ Nelson wrote: >> >>> TeleAtlas data is copyrighted, and when licensed is licensed under an >>> incompatible copyright. >> The data you're proposing taking from Wikipedia is probably derived, >> via >> Google, from that same TeleAtlas (or Navteq) data. > > > Or OpenStreetMap data. How would you know? Perhaps TA and N have > easter eggs.
I actually did a paper on this last term (map easter eggs): Both TA and N are known to contain easter eggs (though I don't recall which of the two denies this publicly). > But y'all are STILL focussing on the WRONG PROBLEM. Okay, here's what > we have for objections: > > o Wikipedia editors are instructed to use Google Maps thus their > geodata is potentially infringing. > o We should be gathering our data from the field (so that means > that the data we currently have is reliable enough, modulo any > currently-known copyright problems). > o But some of the Wikipedia POIs are already in OSM. > > Can you see how this points a way forward? We look at the Wikipedia > lat/lons and POI names. We look in OSM for nearby POIs. We *replace* > the Wikipedia lat/lons with OSM lat/lons. In fact, we turn this into > a continuous process. When somebody enters a POI, we look in > Wikipedia for that entity, and we link to the Wikipedia page and > replace its lat/lon with our own. I guess I missed something...how is this not the obvious answer? I took it for granted that this was happening already.
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