Ivan Sanchez: "A set of geodata, or a map, is libre only if somebody can give you a cake with that map on top, as a present. Cakes are empirical proof that most the data in most SDIs cannot be used freely, because of the licensing terms of the SDIs."

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"Atlanta, the capital of the US state of Georgia will soon be the world's most digitally mapped city, according to organisers of a massive 'mapathon'. OpenStreetMap, or OSM, is behind the effort to produce a map more accurate than anything else on the mar

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