LeedsTracker wrote: > I do. To be clear, I'm not advocating using Gmaps/G-earth for OSM, I > was just puzzled by the (apparently unproblematic) use of it in > Wikimedia and wondered if a parallel use was justifiable.
Put yourself in the shoes of Google's lawyers - and, more significantly, those of their data suppliers. The law is unclear here, and Google/BigDataCo aren't actually losing out by this use. (You could argue they're gaining - every site which significantly draws on Google Maps reinforces their position at the head of the ecosystem.) So there would be no gain for them in a long, drawn-out, involved legal battle against Wikimedia, especially when you consider the adverse PR. But if we did it, Google/BigDataCo would be at risk of losing out - their future customers could use our data instead, or our data repackaged by an added-value company. Even if BigDataCo had to spend months on the case, it would be worth them stopping us deriving. So they would sue. (Besides, the Wikipedia crowd have deeper pockets than us.) > Also, I can't see what Google would gain by stopping Wikimedia users > from geolocating their pics, while OSM is eventually going to compete > with gmaps. Exactly. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Locating-objects-in-Google-Maps-Earth-tp22162444p22186685.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
