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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/27/11 10:53, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> I'd just show a visible warning instead of having JOSM completely
> refuse.

Given what Richard said - that there will be people who don't give a 
shit for such a warning and will trace from Google nonetheless; people 
who will write diary entries and forum articles about how they traced 
from Google and how easy it is to set up JOSM to do it, etc. - do you 
really think this is enough?

"You knew that people were using JOSM to trace from Google!"

"Yes but we made sure they had to read a warning telling them it was not 
allowed."

"But you knew these people would ignore the warning."

"Yeah, not our problem."

I'm not sure. I think we ought to do more than just warn. It is true 
that there may be legitimate reasons for using Google tiles (e.g. we're 
seeing the first users of JOSM for non-OSM-related uses and as a poor 
man's GIS tool - which is problematic in itself because Bing tracing is 
only allowed if the results are intended for OSM and not for someone 
else...). But these are extremely niche - one could compile a special 
JOSM version that supports Google but doesn't have any OSM up/download.

I find Martin's idea not bad (allow people to display Google tiles but 
disable editing) but it's a little more work than I'm prepared to invest 
right now.

Bye
Frederik