The only issue is a scaling issue. Due to the traffic such a service would create we need to be able to support our own tile server and have a team that manages it. There is a bug around this. No legal issues as far as I'm concerned...

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33980

On 10 May 2014 22:04, "Prateek Saxena" <psaxena@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Russell Nelson <russnelson@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just read the whole Nearby card. Why is "OSM privacy situation is a bit of
> a mess?"

I don't know about legal stuff, CC'd Luis to clarify.

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Russell Nelson <russnelson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google by users and they'll be subject to Google's privacy policy. Simply a
> non-starter.

Which is why it has been dropped.

Also, please note that the topic of discussion is whether to move
Nearby out of MobileFrontend. I understand now that WMF will/might
need its own tile server before any sufficient progress can be made on
this.

—prtksxna

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