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5 responses so far ↓
Bone // March 4, 2008 at 4:04 pm
How are you licensing this data? If it’s PD, I can include it in Openstreetmap.
johnson // March 4, 2008 at 4:38 pm
no licensing. license free. as far as i know…
its an open system. you just have to be a googler.
lars // March 4, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I could not find any license for the data. So I guess, it is copyrighted by its creators (by default). Thus it is not allowed to redistribute, modify or use it. You may just look at it.
Please post a link to the license, if I am wrong.
@johnson: please take a look at the google maps license terms (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html) to double-check, if they are really as free and open as you seem to assume.
Projects like http://openstreetmap.org seem to use a better (reusable) license model for this kind of data.
btw: the slogan “the wikipedia of dirt” is misleading, since IMO the key issue of wikipedia is its open license model.
jcj148 // March 5, 2008 at 4:41 am
the data (such as it is) is on an open, publicly editable map. i just read the terms of service, and i do not think that providing this data in an amalgamated, linked form, with no intent to profit violates any of the code of conduct. When users create these maps they intentionally make them publicly editable so that collective knowledge can make better maps: correct roads that arnt dirt any more, make notes of new mean dogs, ect. If this means it is under license, I would say it is some some sort of creative commons style license.
Wikipedia is open license, sure, but it is also an editable amalgamation of data. This is also what the Dirt Road Database is. An editable amalgamation of data. The Database, per se, is simply a place to store links to all of these editable maps. I was simply using ‘wikipedia of dirt’ as sort of funny tag line.
Further, in the next two days, the database will be transfering to a truly editable media wiki platform.
Hope this helps. If not… Apologies.
lars // March 5, 2008 at 9:29 pm
yes – the data is obviously meant to be edited and it is also possible to do it. But there are surely other people, who would like to use this data for some other funny project, These people simply cannot use your data, since it is not licensed. They would have to find out, who created the specific piece of data and then ask him/her for permission. That’s what I understand as the rules of copyright.
btw: the wikipedia people use the GNU Free Documentation License to make sure, that other people can reuse their work.
(http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GNU_Free_Documentation_License)
I don’t want to say anything against this project. I would just like to point out, where (IMHO) it could improve its usefulness / fun / attractivity …