What are is the OP talking about with regard to corporate stewardship of public resources? They are providing the resource and asking for help building it. Ther

What are is the OP talking about with regard to corporate stewardship of public resources? They are providing the resource and asking for help building it. There is no public resource of mapping data in Africa. (That's why Google is building it) If OSM wants to have the data they should start initiatives in Africa to do this. As far as 'copying' OSM, isn't OSM 'open source'? If Google is violating their license that's one thing, but it sounds like they are copying ideas not protected by law, or within the framework of the licensing agreement.