On 31/08/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)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.