8th May 2009, 10:36 AM
Obviously this raises serious issues. The Guardian campaign is a ray of hope, but at the moment all discussion about who is right or wrong is somewhat irrelevent because in legal terms if you put your HER data on a Google map you are in the wrong and could be heavily fined.
I support the free our data campaign, but I would also warn against using Google as a web map service for your data because of their terms and conditions of use. It isn't really free nor is it very good mapping. There are better options out there as Mary Spence of the Royal Cartographic Society stated during her excellent paper at the IFA.
I support the free our data campaign, but I would also warn against using Google as a web map service for your data because of their terms and conditions of use. It isn't really free nor is it very good mapping. There are better options out there as Mary Spence of the Royal Cartographic Society stated during her excellent paper at the IFA.