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[Sven Dowideit]

A quick search for open geo-data reveals services like
http://www.geonames.org/about.html

CC attribution licensed, and they bother to cite sources - I've not
looked at where Google gets its data, but I'm always suspicious of
un-cited commercial 'datasets'.

Sven

Mark (Markie) wrote:
> hmm this is the problem i kinda outlined above, as to what amount do we
> accept the use of unfree services that may use info from our users in the
> "wrong" way, such as google, yahoo etc.  i agree that we should try at all
> costs to stay free, but to what limits will we accept the use of apis etc
> from proprietaries?
> 
> regards
> 
> mark
> 
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Aerik Sylvan wrote:
>>> Hmm... couldn't you use a Google Maps API call (JS) to get the lat lang,
>>> then call the NOAA feed?  I haven't looked at the NOAA feed at all,
>>> but...  Then we cache the lat/lang in a cookie or something, to avoid a
>>> gazillion calls.  Might be a little tricky with pure javascript, if the
>>> NOAA feed is only xml and not JSON, but...
>> I am 100% all for this, and I am also a free software and free data
>> fanatic, and would love to see a way to make all of this available under
>> a free license.
>>
>> So calling external APIs to proprietary servcies to make life better is
>> great -- we are doing this now, calling Yahoo BOSS when we have no
>> results -- but it is only great as long as we keep firmly focussed on:
>> how can we also replace this with something really open and free.
>>
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