<HTML><BODY><div><div><span style="color:#005ff9;">I am not copying any thing, just looking at a satellite view from google . </span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:#005ff9;">it was a ruler.</span></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid #0857A6; margin:10px; padding:0 0 0 10px;">Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:40 AM -05:00 from Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk>:<br> <div id=""><div class="js-helper js-readmsg-msg"><style type="text/css"></style><div><div id="style_15920592261651332719_BODY">On 13/06/2020 15:08, 80hnhtv4agou--- via talk wrote:<br>> why are you telling me I can not use google as a map source<br><br>First reason is that Google don't allow copying of their material to<br>other services.<br><br>But the main reason is that all of the content in OSM is required to be<br>free of any copyright restrictions so anything you copy from ANY other<br>source, you have to ensure that source is 'old news' i.e. is out of<br>copyright. Where possible what appears should be personal observation of<br>local locations and not looked up on streetview for example.<br><br>--<br>Lester Caine - G8HFL<br>-----------------------------<br>Contact - <a href="https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact" target="_blank">https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact</a><br>L.S.Caine Electronic Services - <a href="https://lsces.uk" target="_blank">https://lsces.uk</a><br>Model Engineers Digital Workshop - <a href="https://medw.uk" target="_blank">https://medw.uk</a><br>Rainbow Digital Media - <a href="https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk" target="_blank">https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote> <div> </div><div data-signature-widget="container"><div data-signature-widget="content"><div> </div></div></div><div> </div></div></BODY></HTML>