[Talk-ca] Road name edits in Canada

[Andy Townsend]

Hello talk-ca people,

Andy from the Data Working Group here.

A new prolific mapper has recently popped up, adding road names in 
Canada and elsewhere.  It has been suggested to the DWG that many of the 
names used were just copied from sources that aren't licence-compatible 
with OSM, such as Google Maps.  Some responses to questions about map 
sources have been somewhat evasive (see e.g. 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/119735027 ) but they now claim 
to be using sources such as:

"City of Winnipeg Open Data Portal - Contains information licensed under 
the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg."

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/734204653

and

"Statistics Canada Road Network File (RNF)"

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/507685150

(see https://openstreetmap.org/changeset/119761959 for more)

Do these sources check out as reasonable, and licence-compatible with 
OSM?  Also (and actually more important) are the latest edits by this 
user backed up by those sources?

Normally of course OSM mappers have considerable freedom to map as they 
wish - we take a lot on trust, and don't check that every edit that was 
allegedly derived from a compatible imagery source actually was and 
wasn't from a non-compatible source instead. Unfortunately, in the case 
of this mapper (see previous interactions at e.g. 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/PopeyePopcord/blocks and 
https://openstreetmap.org/changeset/119735027 ) I think we need to have 
a soupçon of skepticism.

Best Regards,

Andy