The question I would ask is 'Is the world a better or worse place if Google
uses our data'?  I would say on the whole it is.

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 2:18 PM, David Murn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:13 +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> > I would think the better solution is to have the attribution simplified
> > like Google Maps does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says "Copyright
> > PSMA, MapQuest" etc.
>
> Hang on a second...  you mean you goto google maps, and some of the data
> displayed is coming from MapQuest (which as I now understand, through
> their hiring of SteveC, have rights to a big chunk of free data?)?
>
> Is that a typo, or is that basically exactly what we DONT want to
> happen, when groups like google start using our data as a base, but wont
> even consider giving us access to their data?
>
> David
>
>
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