[OSM-talk-be] copyright schending?

Jan-willem De Bleser jw at thescrapyard.org
Mon Oct 1 08:49:08 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just seen this changeset: www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13032018
>
> A user with not a lot of experience has imported 3026 speed cameras into the
> OSM database. First of all, it's a bad import, as a lot of speed cameras are
> now duplicated, secondly, I wonder if it was legal to import them, there's
> no source tag or so.

Might be legal, might not. Have you contacted them to ask what the source was?

> What do you think? Should we revert the changeset?

The duplicate cameras is definitely a problem that I would consider
worthy of a revert. We do want this information, but in a more
controlled fashion.

- Jw




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