We really fifa coins think it's important that the people who arecreating the map data, or are involved with creating the map data,are the people who are living there, and the data that's createdfrom their communities is something they have a stake in" /blockquote Mikel Maron, Ground Truth Initiative "With Open Street Map, the idea was that people would go out inteams or as individuals with devices like GPSs or even mobilephones and record information about their communities and have thatavailable publicly, so that all of the data that's collected isaccessible, basically to anyone, so there's no restrictions, nocopyright restrictions like there is with Google MapMaker.
That'squite an important difference -- it doesn't mean though that thedata cannot be used for commercial purposes because of courseanybody can use it, including commercial companies. In the long runmaybe there's a different philosophy behind it but they can servepublic interest as well as commercial interest
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