[open-development] Is the recent World Bank and Google Map Maker deal good for open development?

Thu Jan 19 10:00:31 UTC 2012

On Tuesday Google announced a deal signed with the World Bank to support
the use of Google Map Maker in development contexts:
http://blog.google.org/2012/01/world-bank-and-google-join-forces-to.html

But reaction has highlighted that Google Map Makers Terms of Service don't
allow free re-use of the data:
http://www.globalintegrity.org/blog/google-world-bank-map-deal

Some analysis suggest this just comes from World Bank and others not
looking close enough at the Terms of Service of Map Maker, and the
presentation of Google Maps as 'open' when in fact there are some
significant limitations. Are we likely to see other organisations falling
into this trap - things that look open but aren't?

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