On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Peter Körner <[email protected]>wrote:
> > E.g. I'd be happy to see things like Google use OSM data and mix it with > > any other source of data they can get their hands on, but only if > > improvements they make to the data (or they get from their customers) > > get fed back to OSM. > > How would you differentiate between edits that go to the OSM Data and > edits that go to "any other source"? > > When you're talking about mixing the data, I think of some kind of > layers. If a user now adds a POI, which layer is affected? Google could > just drop this POI into their own layer so that it never reaches the > OSM-Data? This way no improvements would have to go back. > Most likely that's possible under the ODbL, since that'd be a produced work. I'm not sure if Google would try it or not, though, because the ODbL is pretty ambiguous. From one account (which I haven't verified), there's already OSM data in Google Maps.
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