Re: [talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps

2013-02-14 Thread Barker, Nicholas
-Original Message- 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

Re: [talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps

2013-02-14 Thread Steve Bennett
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

Re: [talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps

2013-02-14 Thread Barker, Nicholas
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

[talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps

2013-02-13 Thread Barker, Nicholas
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?

Re: [talk-au] Google copying from OSM maps

2013-02-13 Thread David Bannon
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