You would be surprised. The US Military base vector data set VMAP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Map) is in places far better than OSM, and in others (think Haiti) OSM is much better. That said, the military & intelligence agencies use this in *conjunction* with other sources of data: imagery, navteq, teleatlas etc etc.
Jeff On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes >> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our >> data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up >> a paragraph that prohibits the use of our data for military and >> intelligence services? Not that I'm hoping this would seriously >> prevent the use in case we have useful data to them, but still it >> would be a statement. >> >> cheers, >> Martin > Oh my Lord, do I hope that the military services in my country are using > data /slightly /more accurate & reliable than OSM. > > A statement of what, precisely? > > Dave F. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
