<div dir="ltr">Yeah, be careful with Google Maps. It's owned and created by a company and if you copy from it and they can prove it, they could sue the OSM Foundation into oblivion. They used to even have their OWN satellites to obtain imagery. That's serious money.<div><br></div><div>Typically, with local edits, I put "Local knowledge" as the source. Sounds more highbrow than "my eyeballs". IMO, if somebody is challenging one of your local edits, if they are not local also, they should be told as much and sent on their way - UNLESS it's something that relates to a mapping standard or best practice. Then, learn from your mistakes and move on.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:32 AM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>this was a tool on the map that measured distance.<br><br> <blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(8,87,166);margin:10px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px">Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:29 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>>:<br> <div id="gmail-m_-9137216672489091963"><div><div><div id="gmail-m_-9137216672489091963style_15920585490589161744_BODY"><div><div>You are not allowed to use Google Maps as source.</div><div> </div><div>Have you used Google Maps to edit OSM?</div><div> </div><div>"since all the maps on OSM are old news like in my local area 7 months old."</div><div> </div><div>FYI, world is larger than your local area.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div><div><span>Jun 13, 2020, 16:08 by <a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>:</span></div><div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,95,249)">If you people want me to prove my edit by adding a source, and a person from the data group as an editor,</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,95,249)">asks me to prove it, and i redo my edit and he does not get back to me, why are you telling me I can not use</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,95,249)">google as a map source, since all the maps on OSM are old news. like in my local area 7 months old.</span></div><div> </div><div><div><div> </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div> </div></div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-us mailing list<br><a href="http:///compose?To=Talk%2dus@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">Talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div><div><div><div> </div></div></div><div> </div></div></div>
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