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Isle of Man

August 17, 2008, 1:39 pm

It would appear that Google has decided that their map data for the Isle of Man isn’t good enough, and now allow everyone to edit it through their MapMaker system. Several things spring to mind… firstly that OpenStreetmap has great coverage of the island, and secondly, why doesn’t Google want to re-use the OSM data? It’s already freely available under Creative Commons licensing. I fail to understand their method of thinking here.

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Category: Internet, Openstreetmap, United Kingdom, Web  |  Comment (RSS)  |  Trackback

3 Comments

  1. Rory McCann says:
    August 18, 2008 at 12:15 pm
    I’d be interested in how Google’s licence compared to OSM. I assume it’s not OK to copy from OpenStreetMap into Google?
  2. Chris Hill says:
    August 18, 2008 at 9:30 pm
    If Google use OSM data, Google must then release their map data under Creative Commons – that’s the whole point of the CC licence. Of course, if people copy OSM data into Google maps who would be able to tell? We don’t put Easter-Eggs into OSM data so how would we know?
  3. Gordonjcp says:
    August 26, 2008 at 7:46 pm
    @Chris Hill: lack of easter eggs? Uncanny accuracy?

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