[josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

[Andrew Harvey]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Another option that we could think about is setting certain tags on the
> uploaded changeset that indicate what background layers were used (e.g.
> source:tile-url=blah.google.com/blah/blah). We could inform users of our
> doing so but disallow removal of these tags, which would hopefully make
> sure they only use legal stuff. But that would run the risk of invading
> users' privacy (e.g. they could be using a tile source at the office
> intranet, thus betraying that they were mapping during working
> hours...). And of course this, too, could be circumvented.

Please, if this is implemented have an option to turn it off. I
already tag as source:location=nearmap.

And yes, often I use LAN addresses as custom sources, these would have
no meaning to someone else, so if such a feature did happen, please
give a nice option in Preferences to turn it off.