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Old 11-07-2008, 02:00 AM   #1
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LXer: This week at LWN: OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing


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Maps are cool; there's no end of applications which can make good use of mapping data. There is plenty of map data around, but it's almost exclusively proprietary in nature. That makes this data hard to use with free applications; it's also inherently annoying. We, as taxpayers, own those streets; why should we have to pay somebody else to know where the streets are?

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