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"Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they own all the data and you’re only allowed to map in certain Freedom Of Speech Zones [...] The terms of use are hilarious - the bottom line seems to be that Google ends up owning excusively the entire aggregate work, but it is your fault if anything goes wrong [...] If you contribute to Google MapMaker, you are contributing to one single map view that looks how Google wants it to look. If you contribute to OpenStreetMap, you are contributing to a myriad of possibilities ..." -- http://openstreetmap.org/

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