Ed Parsons gave an unofficial reply: http://www.edparsons.com/2009/09/liberating-your-my-maps-data/
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi all, > > On Friday afternoon I made a request via Google's Data Liberation Front > moderator page that they should sort out the legalities for their aerial > imagery. This could let people use tracings from Google imagery > elsewhere, just as Yahoo allows, rather than being locked down to Google > Maps and its API. We've already established there's no legal barrier to > them doing so. > > Thanks to you all, the support has been absolutely amazing. > > In a day and a half, we have 414 votes for the request - I've had to > refresh three times while writing this e-mail, it just keeps going up. > Their next most popular suggestion has 136 votes, just a third of our > tally. We're all over Twitter and elsewhere. > > (Lest there be any doubt, this isn't a crappy "I want I want I want" > petition. This is how Google actively ask you to make your requests.) > > What now? > > Please *keep publicising it*. Please translate and post to your local > mailing list. We're not on talk-de yet - that must be worth a good few > votes! Blog, tweet, tell your friends. > > If we're way out in front, Google will listen to us. If we're way out in > front, we can publicise it elsewhere, from the Guardian to Slashdot. We > need to show that it's not just a handful of legal bores who think this > matters - it's really important to a lot of people. > > The address is: > > http://url.ie/2ero > > Sign in and show your support. I'm bowled over by the response so far - > let's make it even better. > > cheers > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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