On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:53 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/12/18 Kevin Peat <[email protected]>: > > If it is because of the license then we should take the opportunity to > make > > sure our new license is friendly to these kind of applications and uses > as > > what is the point of creating a free map if only a minority of people are > > ever going to see it. > > They want to be able to sell map data without giving anything away of > real worth to anyone else, which if we wanted to support this kind of > activity we would just spend out time giving data to Google for free. > > Aw c'mon, Google Maps doesn't "giv[e] anything away of real worth to anyone"? Tell that to the millions of people who use it on a daily basis. A high quality, high performance, extremely reliable mapping platform. We all have ideological reasons for preferring OSM, but let's not kid ourselves: Google has a great product which they give away for free. Steve
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