On 1 September 2010 17:40, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Someone wrote: >>> take the coordinates from Google >>> Earth/Maps. >> I will not. That is a non-free source, the same reason I do not >> look/consider Wikimapia(google maps based) or any other proprietary >> maps. >> OSM may currently be the freest data collection that exists (since >> CC-BY-SA-3.0 is legally invalid for OSM data according to Creative >> Commons) > > If OSM data is PD, then so is Google data.
I think the correct term is it's not protected by copyright, not sure about PD. But it may be protected by something else, like a contract. So even if it was PD you can't make use of this fact because as soon as you visit google.com you may be bound by a contract. If you use it without being bound by a contract then (at least in theory) you probably are taking advantage of someone breaching their contract with google. (that's my understanding anyway) Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
