I have seen more frequent reference to confirming street names using Google Maps or Google Streetview lately. Is this practice compatible with producing clean ODBL and TOC data? Is is compatible with Google TOS?
People seem to scream very loudly whenever Google has allegedly used OSM data for something. (And for good reason!) If this practice is not legal/ethical/compatible, it would be good to have that reaffirmed by the OSM community. David. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning I decided to remap another street off Cypress Avenue L.A. > > I randomly choose "Ariva Street" and lo and behold the TIGER2011 > overlay said that it was Arvia Street. > > TIGER is usually spot on with names and since a Bing search and Google > maps/street view also agree about "Arvia" this street is now correctly > named (courtesy of TIGER). > > Luckily I also checked around the neighbourhood and found that, > last night I had messed up Pepper Av (now fixed). > > If people are going to spend an entire night armchair mapping, > wouldn't it be great if they all remapped L.A. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
