Hello, given they may well have a very large body of GPS traces, they may be using these to route along.
The way to check if they are using OSM is if the OSM map has intentional errors - a kink in the road where there is none on aerial imagery or on our GPS traces, for example. Some of my early edits were done just by phone and a bluetooth GPS mouse - in the days before aerial imagery, and some of the roads had a few bends which were not there in reality, and this assisted me in identifying some of the previous users of our database. Another way is perhaps by comparing the resolution of the data, a bit like in the examples, showing where the bends meet up - comparing a road with lots of bends, nodes in a short distance. Seeing if the vertices match up. Cheers, Tim. On 27 July 2016 at 11:06, Mishari Muqbil <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I checked the about page. There's licensing information for a bunch of > software and Google maps but nothing for OSM. > > > On Jul 27, 2016 5:02 PM, "Christoph Hormann" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 27 July 2016, Mishari Muqbil wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wrote a blog post >> <https://www.mishari.net/2016/07/uber-using-osm-data/> comparing >> Uber's rendering of a sample route displayed in it's app with Google >> Maps and OSM Mapnik, it seems Uber is using OSM data for this >> function without any visible attribution to OSM. > > Looks like it. > > The area shown by the way is here: > > http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=100.565099&lat=13.736474&zoom=17&num=3&mt0=nokia-map&mt1=mapnik&mt2=google-map > > Is there any mentioning of OSM in the app? Like hidden on some 'about > page' or similar? > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
