On Mar 14, 2014 8:24 AM, "Jukka Rahkonen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simon Poole wrote: > > > One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, > are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of > share alike and that are in general things that the community would like > to support (so not "evil corp can't take the data now and keep it"). > Concrete in the sense that they are uses that really would happen if > share alike would be dropped, not "we can build a straw man that shows > how bad share alike is". > > 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.
Foursquare uses OSM (and Google maps, depending on which app screen you are in) to derive/verify venue locations. Toby
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