On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would assume that the "data" they are referring to is the user-generated content on their website. They cannot license the maps > themselves under CC BY-SA since those are licensed to them by Google. > So this would be placemark text descriptions and not the geographical coordinate data. that would make sense. In any case, its a very misleading announcement of no real value to wikipedia. And the text itself has been added from various sources and cannot be considered clean. In many instances you will find text and images from wikipedia articles in there. So they were actually holding cc-by-sa content i their database under a cc-by-nc all this while. The map data will continue to be copyright as far as I see it. > > See below: > > Terms of Service: > > [...] > > F. All User Submissions of all users and all Wikimapia Data are freely > available for commercial and non-commercial use under Creative Commons > license Attribution-ShareAlike through WikiMapia website, WikiMapia > API and other current or future WikiMapia services. > G. Public use of Wikimapia Data and it's derivatives requires special > conditions: > a. Link to Wikimapia data original url, if viewed from any web browser > b. Mention of "Wikimapia.org" (with a link to http://wikimapia.org, if > viewed from any web browser) > > Extracted from their terms of service: > > http://wikimapia.org/terms_reference.html > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala < > arjunar...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Check out: > >> http://wikimapia.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=9878#p194763 > >> > >> A welcome change! > >> Hope this will increase the quality of maps in Wiki Projects. > > > > > > Thanks Arjuna, this is a very interesting development. And there is > > something quite not right about this announcement. Wikimapia maps are > > derived from data given by google through its api. The derived data > inherits > > google copyright and is not cc-by-sa compatible. Moreover, the blog > mentions > > the data is under cc-by-sa, but I dont think there is any mechanism to > > download the map data from wikimapia. I'm going to raise this on the > > openstreetmap mailing lists to figure out if this is legal. > > > > It seems to me that this is not, but will update you guys after I dig a > > little more. > > -Arun > > > >> > >> > >> > >> Regards > >> Arjuna > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > j.mp/ArunGanesh > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- j.mp/ArunGanesh <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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