2012/1/29 aude <[email protected]>: > 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 >
I was talking about coords from Wiki Loves Monuments - which are in case of most EU countires taken from official govermental lists of monumens - which are usually PD as govermental documents + data retrieved from WLM contributors; cameras and GPS receiviers. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu
