<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div>El 7 ene 2016, a las 07:47, Hans De Kryger <<a href="mailto:hans.dekryger13@gmail.com">hans.dekryger13@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So i just came across an edit of a user near me that listed the source of his edit as (<span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">Google Maps Street View) (1)</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is obviously wrong. Google Street View is not an allowed data source.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">I have just contacted the user asking for more information about his edit and let him know of the the policy of OpenStreetMap not to copy from other maps.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">So i thought i would search tags (source=google) hoping to find any source tagged with the word google anywhere. Assuming there has to be more. Here's what i found (2)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">Seems like any others should be addressed.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>But this isn't necessarily wrong. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">source=google is ambiguous. It could mean Google Maps, or it could mean they did a Google search for the information, and then wrongly sourced Google instead of the websites found by that search.</span></div><div><br></div><div>In some areas it could also mean data taken from Google Maps satellite imagery that Google explicitly allowed the use of, during natural disasters.</div><div><br></div><div>Be suspicious of source=google, it's a red flag. But it doesn't immediately mean bad data to be removed.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:20px">(1) </span><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3835343766#map=19/33.85088/-112.10980">http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/3835343766#map=19/33.85088/-112.10980</a></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:20px">(2) <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=source%3Dgoogle">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=source%3Dgoogle</a></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div></div></blockquote></body></html>