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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Jan 28 03:03:41 GMT 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> JOSM devs,
>
>   with the templated TMS layer it is now trivial to display Google
> aerial imagery or Google maps as a background in JOSM. Doing so might
> violate Google's terms of use already (I am unsure but I guess that
> using their tiles without a Google logo is not OK); but of course using
> their data for anything to do with OSM is a big No-No.
>
> I wonder if we should thus build a blacklist into the Imagery layer so
> that it will refuse to use certain tile or WMS URLs.

If you're going to do this, it should only be when the OSM server URL
is set to openstreetmap.



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