Let’s map Africa! | Christian Spanring

…preferable in OpenStreetMap as Helge from the NGO Laafi suggests and support development in Africa with unrestricted access to free public maps.

Google basically asks for the same thing, with one small difference: your edits go to Google, and not to Africa:

… By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission. …

http://nona.net/ Alex

Helge may want to talk to those people: http://www.tracks4africa.com/
http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/ Andy Allan

Tracks4Africa, just like Google, don’t give you open access to the collected data, whereas OpenStreetMap makes all the collected data available – not only for zero cost, but also with the freedom to do what you like with it.
http://www.seamushughes.com Seamus Hughes

Google only seems to cares about money, not Africa or America or…would be great to see that the African continent grow and prosper for a change.