Am 14.03.2014 14:17, schrieb Jukka Rahkonen: ...... > > Hi Simon, > > We have considered that we cannot use OpenStreetMap as a background map in > any of the applications where users are sending location aware information > back to administration. For showing existing data it would be OK but not > for gathering data from users because user could locate a place "corner of > Annankatu and Merimiehenkatu" http://osm.org/go/0xPLoLTa0?m= by looking at > the OSM map. The interpretation of ODbL is that this location is derived > from OSM data and thus the database of the administration would become > ODbL. It could be OK in some use cases but some data are confidential and > ODbL is not an option. Therefore we do not use OSM at all. We use our own > services and Google Maps.
Two remarks/questions: - is the "derived" data actually being publicly used? - Off Topic: the use doesn't seem to be compatible with what is generally known about googles ToS (naturally I assume that is just a question of money) Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
