Talk-ZA, Mikel Maron, OpenStreetMap's humanitarian and development mapper extraordinary, just blogged an interesting piece which clearly shows his frustration...
"We Need to Stop Google’s Exploitation of Open Communities" - Google’s strategy is to build market in Africa by appropriating the appearance of open data community methodologies, yet maintaining corporate control of what should rightfully be a common resource. They are specifically targetting govts and NGOs, offering to "map their country for free", but keeping the results, and attracting customers. Full piece: http://brainoff.com/weblog/2011/04/11/1635 Regards Grant _______________________________________________ Talk-ZA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-za
