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From: dipie...@gmail.com [mailto:dipie...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Anthony
Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013 11:22 AM
To: Barker, Nicholas; dban...@internode.on.net
Cc: OSM - Talk-au
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:28 PM
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Barker, Nicholas nbar...@pb.com.au wrote:
Not at all, it just seemed a bit of a double standard that we are diligent
not to copy from other maps and only map what is on the ground...then this
appears on Google on their 'cycle track' layer.
If they had
Just pointing out the obvious here - in case anyone isn't aware.
Google now supports crowdsourced mapping with the MapMaker tool, so
it's totally possible that either:
- a member of the public mapped it legitimately
- a member of the public mapped it by copying
Ok I've just spotted somethingit appears Google has added a couple of
trails onto their bicycling maps layer that only appear on OSM...nowhere else.
Namely the trail called Follow Me in Lysterfield Lake Park in Melbourne but
probably all the others too..
Is this an issue?
I mapped some roads in the state forest I like to play in and noted they
were substantially wrong in Google at the time. Couple of months later,
four or five ? they were fixed in google. Vic forest maps still show
them incorrectly but of course that could be just old releases, maybe
the
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