Old Google Maps data for Malaysia

[wdmanuel]

I posted this in the announcement for Eastern Europe but I was, again,
ignored.

According to the LatLong Blog, Malaysia and Brunei are also open for
editing now. I tried and they are. What happened to the old data which
is still live on Google Maps? Did the license expire?

[YM T]

Doesn't look like Google is doing away with the map data with MapIT
(even though there are errors on it). The difference is Map Maker is
community-based. But hey, I'm not from Google. :)

[JenMazz]

Dear wdmanuel,

Rest assured that we saw your question & we've been pondering the most
suitable answer. It turns out the answer is not terribly
straightforward. For example, even if a license had expired, I
wouldn't be able to share that information with you for reasons of
contractual confidentiality.

So here's an answer that is legally sanitized & sanctioned: "We have a
variety of sources of data for Maps, including user-contributed data,
licensed data, or a combination of the two. We continually evaluate
our sources of map data in order to provide a great exience for end
users, and may switch data in a country from time to time."

I hope that helps!

Cheers,

Jen.

P.S. YM T has also made a pertinent point :-)

[JenMazz]

A little ironic that there was a type-o in the sanctioned
response..."exience" should be "experience" ;-}

Cheers,

Jen.