Followup to this, my changeset is http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/16315736 based on local observation and the TIGER import. pnorman in #osm-us discovered a Google bot had made a similar change a month later on Mapmaker.
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > A few weeks ago, I converted "County Road XXXX" in (and in a few cases, > immediately around) Osage County, Oklahoma, since these roads don't have a > name, just a number, and as we all know, references are not names. Didn't > think much of it until, lo and behold, I look at a Google Maps mashup, and > see a literally route-for-route identical conversion on Google Maps, > including stray conversions in immediately adjacent counties. Google is > not attributing this data properly, and it's pretty glaring in both cases > considering that I've only done Osage County and immediately adjacent stray > routes like this so far, given that unlike most other counties in Oklahoma, > there's no complicating letters in the route numbers that need to be > handled. How do we handle this situation? Do we have a contact at Google > in cases of potential plagiarism? >
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