On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:18 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?
The attributions are Google for USA, Sensis for Australia and Tele Atlas for Europe etc. after this update: http://google-au.blogspot.com/2010/11/your-new-map-of-australia.html So no MapQuest worries! _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
