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On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Anirudh Bhati <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala >> > <[email protected]> >> > 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 >> >> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > j.mp/ArunGanesh >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > -- > j.mp/ArunGanesh > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
