:OpenStreetMaps: Free Software's Answer to Google Commercially-Restricted Geo-Data
OpenStreetMaps: Free Software's Answer to Google Commercially-Restricted Geo-Data Oct 6, 2008, 21 :33 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (3955 reads) (Other stories by Gary Richmond)
"Google Earth and Google Maps are too well know to require iteration here, but the spectre of proprietary software haunts them. They are not free software. If you want to incorporate any of them into you budding business project and run your software under a relatively permissive licence for others to take up your ideas and improve them you will have to find something else."