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

[Ian Dees]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:59 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> wrote:
> > Yes. It is certainly a problematic case but I am absolutely sure that the
> > overwhelming use of Google in JOSM is to trace from it, compared to a
> > negligible amount of non-copyright-infringing use.
>
> What argument do you have that tracing Google images is copyright
> infringement?
>
>
Tracing Google Maps tiles is against their terms of use, as is displaying
them in an application other than a webpage via their Google Maps API.

For example, Google seems to be "willfully ignorant" of Wikimapia, who uses
Google Maps API to offer a tracing system (mostly because Google could start
monetizing the API by displaying advertisements if they wanted). I imagine
the story would be slightly different if we simply scraped the tile images
(against ToU) into JOSM, even if it wasn't for tracing.