On Jan 28, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <[email protected]> wrote:
2012/1/29 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>:
Tomasz Ganicz, 27/01/2012 23:43:
We wanted to make such a cooperation with OSM Poland - but it
failed -
mainly due to lack of commitment from Polish OSM community. I
guess -
we should rather use OSM data and make our own map service, by
adding
our slice of data. OSM people generaly like to edit OSM maps and
it is
hard to persuade them to do something extra :-)
Doesn't this produce any useful data for their maps?
Yes, of course - I might imagine that they will incorporate our data
to the OSM - they are using bots to mass-upload data if it is only
possible from legal POV, just as we are doing this for Wikipedia :-) -
but to find OSM people ready to join another project is as hard as
persuade wikipedians to edit other non-Wikimedia projects :-)
Wikipedia geocoordinates cannot (for most part) go into OSM. OSM is
under European / UK law, which has database rights.
Wikipedia systematically often gets coordinates from google maps and
earth, and is considered a data collection, and not clean in terms of
db rights.
Wikipedia operates under US law and no database rights. Geocoordinates
are facts and not copyright so we regard it okay to take coordinates
from google
Katie
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