<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>1. The critics, I have answered on this way were not that I had used forbidden sources, but that my entries were not reliable.</div>2. Woodpeck has banned me just in the moment, when all geographic data of the state of Brandenburg got ODB status.<div><div>3. It is a difference either to take copies from databases (which is allowed only if these are ODB) or to know their contents.</div><div>Publishing without regard of the state of the art is a crime against the real users.</div><div>4. If you follow the development of my edits, you can see that I have continued systematical mapping, </div><div>but after the first punishments, I have not entered informations that are available from public databases only.</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the essential informations I have recieved by phone from the maintaining corporations (Wasser- und Boden-Verbände).</div><div>Also pdf maps are nothing yo can call a forbidden database. Look at the map I have linked at the onset of today's thread. Using the information of this map for a free hand drawing is no forbidden copy.</div><div>The relief can be read in ordinary maps and seen by visits of the localities.</div><div>Irregular colours of the meadows and fields can be seen from various orthophotos, and it is useful to read more than one of them,</div><div>as some thing can be invisible in one and obvious in another.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, Ulrich</div><div><br><div><div>Am 12.08.2019 um 17:30 schrieb <a href="mailto:tagging-request@openstreetmap.org">tagging-request@openstreetmap.org</a>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: Culverts</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>