[Geowanking] iPhone Geolocating technology?

[Sergio Cardoso]

Intel Place Lab (not Parc Place...)
http://placelab.org/

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Drew from Zhrodague wrote:

>> I'd be happy to help with that one; seems pretty straightforward.
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>> Personally I don't really care re GPL/CC or not; people are going to
>> do whatever they want anyway and power is only as strong as
>> enforcement.  All you do is force people out of the sunlight when you
>> try to constrain their use.
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>> I'm just a guy. However if cddb, and before that a certain mailing 
>> list, tell me anything, it's that someone else asserting compilation 
>> copyright on data I provided in a way that precludes me from using 
>> it, is unpalatable. As long as there's a license that precludes 
>> someone from taking the provided data private and making a profit, good.
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>> I'm not opposed to profit, but if you want my data, pay me or keep 
>> giving me stuff for free, (if) I gave you stuff for free.
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>     Agreed, and that's been one of the points I wanted to make -- to 
> get people to visit, and interest them enough to go out and wardrive 
> (contests, etc).
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>     I know if I just published this stuff as public domain, certain 
> unnamed groups would copy it, and call the database their own. This 
> wouldn't be the first time, and that's why I want to put some 
> protections (for the project) into the license. I'd like to make sure 
> that we're cited -- at the minimum -- as a data source, and probably 
> free for noncommercial use. There is a commercial-use/subscription 
> option in here somewhere. This is why the CC licenses appeal to me.
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>> I do tend to support BSD licensing because I don't begrudge others
>> making money off of my work, and the quality of participants where
>> participants can freely monetize work is higher.  If you think of
>> source code (or datasets) as a liability that must be maintained,
>> rather than an asset, then you will want the most liberal license
>> possible to push those liabilities away from oneself.  If you want to
>> treat the work as an asset, then don't make it free at all.
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>     Hm, I don't see our dataset as a liability. It is definately an 
> asset. It does not, however, have any value sitting on a disk array at 
> my house -- it has far more value in being plotted, analyzed, 
> spindled, etc by third parties. Mashups, research, curious folks.
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>     This is why I pipe up, and ask the experts. This is a bit out of 
> my expertise. Am I making any sense?
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