Hi, > I was going to ask the same thing... googling pops up a german wikipedia > link... Frederik mind helping?
The matter had been discussed on talk-de; they call themselves a "free" database and have their data listed as "Public Domain" on Sourceforge so at least from their point of view incorporation into OSM should not pose a problem. (They used to be LGPL but removed that around 2006.) As to where their data comes from - we don't really know but the bulk of the data has been around since 2003 and that's definitely pre-Google Maps. The main author, Thomas Mack, claims to have compiled the bulk from various free sources which he explicitly checked for "PD-ability", and says he sometimes used commercial maps to cross-check individual data items but never copied from them. So I'd say the data is clean, or at least clean enough ;-) Readers of German might want to check this posting by Thomas Mack in which he responds to a question by Joerg Ostertag (who would have thought of that!) and says something about the sources: http://lists.phpbar.de/pipermail/opengeodb/2006-September/003552.html Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
