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

[MP]

 On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:20:10 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> 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.

 It could be useful to have this as an extra option to automatically add 
 user defined source (not tile urls, which may be a local proxy or 
 so....) - the default presets should have some reasonable values (those 
 currently used) defined for this, like source=landsat, etc ...
 So while providing good defaults, anybody can change them or turn them 
 off.

 Martin