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.
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 <arun.planemad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala <arjunaraoc(a)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
Regards
Arjuna
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