[talk-ph] Another user possibly illegal copying from GMaps

[Jherome Miguel]

I have a bad feeling that the user, as well as the previous ones, may be
part of some unknown and potentially illegal Internet challenge to mass
copy POIs from Google Maps to OSM. We don’t know, but what’s clear is there
is copyright infringement involved. Could this type of editing a symptom of
lockdown fatigue?

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:23 PM Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just sent a PM to user involved, asking about their sources and any
> personal knowledge of the locations they edited. Hope this user should be
> responsive at least.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:00 PM Jherome Miguel <jheromemiguel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I would like you to bring to every one’s attention this newly discovered
>> user (
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Jan%20Rei%20Gallardo), which I feel
>> to be illegally copying from GMaps. We have tackled with two major
>> incidents earlier this year (with both users blocked by DWG), but now,
>> we’re facing another problem with another fly-by-night editor mass adding
>> POIs at various locations and with an account that is just a few months
>> old. I’ll try to be in contact in the user and ask them about their sources.
>>
>
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