On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > We are talking at cross purposes. What I am talking about are applications > of geo data like these > > - > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/swedes-have-their-map-support.html > - > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/03/danes-have-their-map-support.html > > The data in both instances is extracted from Wikipedia articles. They > provide the geo locations relating to Wikipedia articles. In one instance > the data is projected on top of Google Maps and in the other on top of > findfey. > > There is no vector data involved just projection on top of existing maps.
Projection on top of existing maps creates a new mashup, that is not the issue, it creates liabilities only for the hosting of that map itself. But where do these points come from? Is that not a collection of points derived from some unknown source that might be in violation of some contract or copyright? What about the EU database law? Is that not a significant extract of the database? We cannot include this data back into openstreetmap. I have also worked on extractors to parse out the articles and produce OSM files, and got blasted for doing so. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-July/016231.html There has been a discussion on this before: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-May/036582.html OSM policy states that we are not allowed to import Google derived points. If you are mapping a new area that is only empty space, it is good to start with data that is available, out of copyright maps, some of the geonames data and if possible wikipedia articles. They can provide locations to start with as reference locations. My interest is improving the data in OSM directly and finding sources that are usable to create the base layer. Wikipedia is not yet a source of map data that can be used in accordance with OSM policy, and there are good reasons why not. mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
