Schuyler Erle wrote: > * On 12-Oct-2006 at 8:30AM PDT, Joe Germuska said: >> Today's podcast with Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Mexens >> Technologies, advances a story I began telling in early 2005 about >> annotating the planet. The problem was, and still is, that there >> aren't very many people with GPS devices. Cyril's system, Navizon, >> aims to bootstrap us out of that situation. The idea is to incent >> people carrying the fairly small number of GPS-equipped mobile >> devices (PocketPCs, cellphones) to map the locations of both WiFi >> access points and cell towers. Then people using vast numbers of >> devices on WiFi or cellular networks can use location-aware >> applications without having to own GPS gear. > > What's the license on the data that users collect, Jon? Do the users > own it? Does Mexens own it but publish it under a free license that > guarantees its reuse? Or do the users simply collect it for Mexens for > free? What's to prevent a Gracenoting? Is this hacking or > hacksploitation? Hmm?
"gracenoting", ... nice new verb there :) And richly deserved... Dan _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
