Referring to external sources

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Most of our “local knowledge” (street names, suburbs etc) is based on information which was copied from somewhere else which was sourced from somewhere further away, eventually being traced back to some authority who created it and claims that it’s copyrighted. Just maybe, they’ll let the public use it for limited purposes as long as the source is acknowledged. (See Creative Commons licence conditions.)

I though about this for sometime

I think the real problem in many cases is not with the licence holders of information but Waze/Google and ownership of waze map information

Its my understanding that all the work we do becomes the property of Waze/Google and they use this information to make money. If they find that the information is obtained from a third party it could become a problem for exclusive ownership?

I suspect that some of the Google maps data owned by a third party and they lease this information. I suspect they hope to replace this data from Waze over time?