Hi all, Without wanting to be a rotten party-pooper, could I just raise the licence issues with this?
Wikidata co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Wikipedia, which claims to be CC-BY-SA licensed. Wikipedia co-ordinate information is chiefly sourced from Google Maps[1]. Google expressly prohibits their map data being used "to create or augment your own mapping-related dataset (or that of a third party), including a mapping or navigation dataset"[2], which is what is proposed here. (There are other relevant prohibitions.) Wikipedia has a much looser attitude than OSM to copyright on factual information for various well-rehearsed reasons. That's their call, but we cannot simply take Wikidata's assertion of CC0 on trust. Neither CC-BY-SA nor Google-owned compilations of factual data are compatible sources for ODbL+CT. I am far from certain of the interplay of "substantial" and "insubstantial" in Database Directive and ODbL terms here, and to what extent rights subsist in data that has been compared but not directly copied. But it needs careful thought, ideally with references to case law, which it doesn't yet appear to have had. cheers Richard [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools [2] https://developers.google.com/maps/terms -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-with-Wikidata-now-covers-UK-and-Ireland-tp5869546p5869607.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
