>From the dates, it looks like most of those are from the Haiti earthquake tracing, when Google allowed OSM to use its imagery for tracing. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#Google_Imagery
Cheers, Brad On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrew...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have discovered a lot of data in OSM that appears to have been > copied from Google Maps. See > http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source#values and type "google" > into the search box. There appear to be over 30000 objects in the OSM > database copied from Google. Anyone willing to help delete data and > warn users? (It is a LOT of work to do this myself). Please beware > that some of these objects may have been modified by innocent users > afterward, please check the history to see which user originally added > it. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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