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When a company like Google organizes such events and makes use of community resources to do so we should understand that their intentions may not be purely public service. Once the community hands over valuable mapping data to Google, it essentially becomes their property and more modifications/unrestricted public usage is not possible with that data. This goes against the intuitive attitude of shairng and empathy on which the human society is built. The Google Terms of Service says "Except where you have been specifically licensed to do so by Google, you may not use Google Maps with any products, systems, or applications installed or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route guidance, fleet management or similar applications. Also, you may not use Google Maps in a manner which gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of numerical latitude and longitude coordinates." This expressly prohibits people from using the data in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. By willingly submitting to their terms of service we are robbing ourselves off the opportunities to use this data creatively.

~~>(Do we need to add: Google organizes mapping parties, inspired from OpenStreetMap Mapping Parties (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_party) )~~

There have been a series of mapping parties including:

> There have been a series of mapping parties including:

> 1. National Institute of Technology, Calicut Mapping Party http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NITC_mapping_party

> 2. Technopark, Trivandrum Mapping Party http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trivandrum_mapping_party_12_dec

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 When a company like Google organizes such events and makes use of community resources to do so we should understand that their intentions may not be purely public service. Once the community hands over valuable mapping data to Google, it essentially becomes their property and more modifications/unrestricted public usage is not possible with that data. This goes against the intuitive attitude of shairng and empathy on which the human society is built. The Google Terms of Service says "Except where you have been specifically licensed to do so by Google, you may not use Google Maps with any products, systems, or applications installed or otherwise connected to or in communication with vehicles, capable of vehicle navigation, positioning, dispatch, real time route guidance, fleet management or similar applications. Also, you may not use Google Maps in a manner which gives you or any other person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of numerical latitude and longitude coordinates." This expressly prohibits people from using the data in creative, productive, or unexpected ways. By willingly submitting to their terms of service we are robbing ourselves off the opportunities to use this data creatively.
->(Do we need to add: Google organizes mapping parties, inspired from OpenStreetMap Mapping Parties (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapping_party) )
+There have been a series of mapping parties including:
-> There have been a series of mapping parties including:
      > 1. National Institute of Technology, Calicut Mapping Party   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NITC_mapping_party
      > 2. Technopark, Trivandrum Mapping Party http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trivandrum_mapping_party_12_dec