Originally posted by Silvia Renn (WorldFish):

I was reading www.edparsons.com blog (Ed Parsons is a geospatial technologist at Google) and came across his post related to the Wherecamp (and data license issues).

http://www.edparsons.com/2009/04/digital-planet-and-geodata/

He heard about it on the podcast of the BBC Radio World Service programme, Digital Planet. Checkout the podcast (at around 13:30) and you may hear some familiar voices:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/2009/04/090420_digitalplanet_140409.shtml