2010/1/16 <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > As I work to bring CommonMap to fruition I'm heartened that I'm not the only > one > that wants to see it happen. > > If you're handy to Brisbane tonight then come join the CommonMap association > as > part of the Samford Mapping Party > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Samford_Mapping_Party_January_2010) > and vote to see it incorporated > (http://commonmap.info/w/index.php/Association/Incorporation/Agenda).
I would have liked to attend, because I would have liked to discuss this further with you in person. > "As it stands right now, even though the MapMaker data is free for non-profit > use, projects like OSM can't use the data because there are commercial uses > for > OSM and the data belongs to Google, not OSM. This seems like a spurious argument, ok your suggestion will allow both projects to "profit" from your data, but any additions can't be shared back with your suggested project, nor will Google share any of it's data back, unless it's in Google's own best interest, any data Google releases won't allow commercial use, so you still wouldn't be able to incorporate it. So Google gets free labour, and you get nothing in return... sounds win-loose to me. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
