[Talk-il] comparing website (google maps vs. openstreetmaps)

[Baruch Even]

* Jahudie <jahudie at googlemail.com> [081102 08:48]:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a great site for comparing the google maps satelite maps with
> openstreetmaps.
> The good thing is that google satelite images are in more details that the
> yahoo one for israel, so you can really see everything important.
> 
> http://geo.topf.org/comparison/
> 
> With the help of some of my gps tackings and the satelite image I have
> mapped the city Nahariya in the north.

Hopefully you didn't use the Google satellite images to map on OSM?

Google Satellite is copyrighted and we don't have permission to use it
for mapping in OSM. Doing so makes the data a derivative work of Google
and cannot be entered into OSM.

The only satellite data we can use is from Yahoo which is low-res
compared with Google but that's what we can do.

Cheers,
Baruch