At the GSoC there was a clear opening. Will pursue this when I'll feel better.
Stefan Op 29 okt 2009 om 12:05 heeft John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:\ > 2009/10/29 Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org>: >> look, a few days back someone (I think it was Richard Fairhurst) >> started a >> campaign asking google to allow us to trace their imagery. A lot of >> us signed >> up. The answer was a flat 'no'. So there is nothing ambigous about >> it. Yahoo! >> has said 'yes', google has said 'no'. Fullstop. > > That's incorrect it wasn't a flat out no. The answer was much more > fuzzy. > > > Ed Guy was very very clear on 2 things, first and fore most that you > are not allowed to vectorise every single street in your city. > > He was also clear on the 2nd thing, that you are allowed to do your > favourite hiking/walking trip and vectorise and mass distribute it, or > even mass distribute points of interest. > > There is a line between the 2 that Google will draw the line, but even > Ed wasn't certain exactly where that line is, in part because it's a > grey area no one (not google nor their supplier) wants to deal with > properly. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
