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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/07/2021 09:02, Erwin Olario
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">CC'ing
the list of their latest response: <span style="background:unset;background-blend-mode:unset;border:unset;border-radius:unset;display:unset;float:unset;clear:unset;vertical-align:unset;overflow:unset;isolation:unset;break-after:unset;break-before:unset;break-inside:unset;columns:unset;column-fill:unset;column-rule:unset;column-span:unset;opacity:unset;mix-blend-mode:unset;font:unset;font-synthesis:unset;writing-mode:unset;text-orientation:unset;image-orientation:unset;border-collapse:unset;empty-cells:unset;caption-side:unset;border-spacing:unset;color:unset;text-transform:unset;text-indent:unset;word-break:unset;text-justify:unset;text-align-last:unset;text-align:unset;letter-spacing:unset;word-spacing:unset;white-space:pre;text-emphasis:unset;line-break:unset;text-combine-upright:unset;text-underline-position:unset;list-style:unset;quotes:unset;margin:unset;outline:unset;padding:unset;width:unset;min-width:unset;max-width:unset;height:unset;min-height:unset;max-height:unset;box-sizing:unset;object-fit:unset;object-position:unset;table-layout:unset;text-overflow:unset;text-decoration:unset;ime-mode:unset"><a href="https://imgur.com/ml0IR2e" moz-do-not-send="true">https://imgur.com/ml0IR2e</a></span></div>
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class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span>We
hire third-parties who are from the area being mapped to tag
the location of establishments, landmarks, and other
government offices.
They will send to us the coordinates and the names of the
places, and will be encoded accordingly by a third-party.<span
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<p>The chances of having the same establishments, landmarks,
and government offices on the same location as Google is
for the basic reason that we are mapping the same areas on
planet Earth. Unless, Google mapped an alternate universe
that would result in different mapping of the same
locality.<span class="gmail_default"
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></p>
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class="gmail_default">FWIW, I previously invited them to
engage with the LoCo through an online meeting, but instead
got this response.<br>
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<p>Separately to the "copying from Google" issue:<br>
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<p>As a group of organised editors they should be following
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines</a></p>
<p>If they're not doing that, we (the DWG) may be able to take
action - provided that we can identify the accounts involved.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy (from the DWG)</p>
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