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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stephan Knauss <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > the new iD editor allows to supply a custom imagery layer. > > Nothing prevents users from using google maps there and start copying. > > A while ago we agreed that making it too easy is not intended. JOSM has > code to block Google from being used. > > I had created issue 662 requesting a similar thing for iD which was closed > withing minutes as "won't fix". > https://github.com/systemed/**iD/issues/662<https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/662> > > Is this new consensus in the community to make copyright violation too > easy? > > The JOSM code was added as a reaction because users had been copying from > google aerial imagery, claiming it being legal and ignoring OSM consensus. > > When it did not work in the past to tell people "don't use it", why do we > expect it to work now? > > I would like to hear more opinions in probably take another approach at > the iD developers in case we want to have it blocked. > > On a side note, adding the right tag in the changeset does not work. A > changeset with google maps used as imagery is having this tag: > "imagery_used = Bing" > > For custom imagery I suggest to include the used URL, so at least we know > what was used. > > Created Issue for this: > https://github.com/systemed/**iD/issues/663<https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/663> > > Stephan > > ______________________________**_________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk> > -- Clifford OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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