[OSM-legal-talk] A questionable data source usage in Haiti in 2010

[severin.menard]

Hi,

It was the first (and maybe the last?) delivery of imagery by Google for OSM crisis mapping.
You can read this blog post written by Andrew Tuner: https://opensource.com/osm
Would be good though to document better this release in the OSM wiki, like an official statement from Google in case there was one. Google's blog post only mentions "relief organizations": https://maps.googleblog.com/2010/01/haiti-imagery-layer-now-available.html

Sincerely,
Severin

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Le samedi 24 juillet 2021 à 15:00, Mateusz Konieczny via legal-talk <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> a écrit :

> I would start from trying to contact relevant mappers, though I am not optimistic that it would
> end in discovering that the relevant data can stay.
>
> But I can imagine various kind of mistakes ending in valid data being tagged source=Google
>
> Jul 24, 2021, 16:19 by mappinglander at gmail.com:
>
>> Hello,
>> There has recently been a discussion in OSM Discord about [source=Google tags](https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/source=Google%2C 2010-01-21) in Haiti. The usage seems to have documented at [wiki](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources/Old#Google_Imagery), but seems like there isn't any explicit clauses about allowing to OSM on the linked mailinglist posts, and the Google page says "Use restricted to non-commercial use in or related to Haitian relief efforts." Also, as that was before the CC BY-SA and ODbL switch in 2012, I and other users have expressed some doubts about whether we are still having permission to use that source on OSM. I personally haven't contacted Mikel yet, or the other people involved in the discussion and approved the usage on OSM.
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