On 31/08/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I believe all that's left stopping people from making a copyright-free google maps would be the intersection/one-way street data. AFAIK the only data that exists for that is proprietary. Maybe it's time to push again for some sort of GIS-based Wikimedia project.
c.f. http://okfn.org/geo/ and similar pages. People who wander London with a GPS and recorder. I remember the DorkBot I saw this discussed at and a friend who works at MultiMap dismissing the idea as ridiculous - I of course reminded her of a certain equally ridiculous open encyclopedia project I have some involvement with.
- d.