OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. Marble, a virtual desktop globe application and widget for KDE desktop, will support OpenStreetMap in KDE 4.1. Once you start Marble and select "OpenStreetMap" as a theme then Marble will directly start to download OpenStreetMap tiles from the OpenStreetMap server.
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can.axis
16 years 19 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago
AGPL
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License
This seems very impressive, but I wonder what would be different if OpenStreetMap project was licensed under the GNU AGPL license...
lozz
16 years 19 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago
Re. AGPL
Yeah, it would be nice to see this great software project with an AGPL license. It's a project where local groups could work towards extending the functionality for their own local area.
milliams
16 years 19 weeks 17 hours 12 min ago
Licensing
It wouldn't really make sense to use AGPL since OSM isn't a web service, it's really just a database (only the slippymap front end is a service and that's not OSM's code). There's ongoing work to come up with a license that keeps the data as free as possible while keeping the project healthy.