[OSM-legal-talk] Google MapMaker and OSM data...

[Eric Jarvies]

Perhaps someone who knows can answer my original question... does Google MapMaker use(according to the OSM license) OSM data? If not, then perhaps the person/people whom typically deal with these matters can communicate with me accordingly, so I may provide information and explain the situation in detail, so it may be addressed pragmatically, either validating or invalidating it prior to the entire list being pointed to(alerted of) the suspected problem.

I say this because I do not have the -OSM- experience that is necessary to validate what I suspect, as it relates to changesets, and being able to go back a few versions and render the specific version in question, so it may be compared with what is being used over at Google MapMaker.  I am 99.9% certain that the coastline that is being displayed over there on Google MapMaker is in fact one in the same as one of my screwed-up iterations, which has subsequently been changed and hopefully repaired(but not yet rendered by OSM... tick tock tick tock).  The very nature of the way I changed/edited the coastline was deliberately inaccurate and very unique, meaning it did not follow the real coastline, because at the time I was still trying to hunt down a problem, a problem that I later discovered did not really exist(I just needed to wait days/weeks for OSM to render the coastline), and so I arranged the coastline in a very deliberate way so that I would see the change when it rendered, as I was trying to substantiate if my changes were actually occurring/working or not. 

Thus, anyone who is capable of going back to a previous version in this particular way/changeset and rendering it, will be able to render the exact same coastline that is being displayed over at Google MapMaker.

Is this how this type of issue is normally dealt with?

Eric



On Sep 7, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Emilie Laffray wrote:

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> On 7 September 2010 14:51, Eric Jarvies <eric at csl.com.mx> wrote:
> Grant,
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> Yes, I can point to an example... but prior to bringing attention to the matter/area, I would instead prefer to monitor it and see what else appears.  The coastline, akaik, is not editable by users/contributors, which is why I asked if Google is now using OSM data.
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> I think that even an example would be nice, so more people can have a look at what is happening. It would be best if we realized what is going on sooner rather than later.
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> Emilie Laffray
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