On 03.11.2012 00:14, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]> wrote:
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
I didn't realize this. Still, there is a lot of data in the database
with source=Google which is not in Haiti, which is obviously a
copyright violation. Presumably this is the only time Google granted
an exception?
I strongly suggest to contact DWG and not try to do some clean-up action
on your own.
How certain are you that the source tag refers to the coordinate? Culd
also be the phone number of a shop found by a google search, right?
Each of these occurences has to be checked and the mapper contacted.
I assume someone intending to copy data from google would not not set a
source tag. So the places you found must be cases where the mapper
believes it's OK to use that data.
Stephan
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