On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> > == Licensing issue == > If we can use Google Maps to get object coordinates into the articles is > another tricky question (and hard to fix after done). I will wait for Luis > opinion, but we should be careful. I am totally not qualified to answer so everything I say below could be wrong :) I think it's *not* okay to get the coordinates from OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) which protected database rights. I don't think ODbL and CC-BY-SA 3.0 are compatible. Database rights are recognized in Europe (where OSM is hosted) but not in the US (where Wikimedia projects are hosted). It is important to note that database rights != copyright. >From Wikimedia perspective, we are generally only concerned with copyright and believe that facts like coordinates are not copyrightable. Hence, using Google Maps as a source for coordinates often regarded as okay. Whether or not one cares about database rights, I think it's not a good idea to violate OSM's license by using OSM as a source for coordinates. The question about using Google Maps as a source could be argued either way, in my opinion. Cheers, Katie > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list > WikiLovesMonuments@lists.**wikimedia.org<[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/**wikilovesmonuments<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments> > http://www.wikilovesmonuments.**org <http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org> > -- @wikimediadc / @wikidata
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