[ILUG-Cochin.org] Google Mapping Party - Someone please enlighten us

[Nishan Naseer]

>From what I can gather, Free Software movement  is against locking up of
user generated content
inside google's vaults instead of making them publicly (re)usable and
modifiable, like openstreetmap.org

Free software community does not urge people to not take part in the google
mapping party, but request
them to contribute to openstreetmap.org as well so that the data is
read/write for the community.

http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/OpenstreetMapPressNote


Nishan



On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dinkar Mohana Pai <din at dinkar.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I hope this is related to opensource / free software movement, as I see in
> newspapers, the free software movement is against google mapping party.
>
> Would someone please enlighten us (N00b like me) on this issue ? I mean, it
> is all about the security issues ? Or the ownership issue ?
>
> Why the free software foundation opposes it ? Sorry, but was not clearly
> explained in the newspapers, so thought I will ask here.
>
> http://www.mathrubhumi.com/story.php?id=79905 - That is the link/news I
> read.
>
> Best Regards
> Din.
>
>
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