On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Arun Ganesh <
arun.planemad@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <
arjunaraoc@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
>
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>> Regards
>> Arjuna
>>
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