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

[Erwin Olario]

Thanks, Andy.

For now, we're deferring any specific action but documenting concerns and
related issues. We're hoping they'd accept  the invitation for a meeting
before considering any further action.

We'll make sure to keep the DWG up-to-date,  and document this in the repo.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 20:51 Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/07/2021 09:02, Erwin Olario wrote:
>
> CC'ing the list of their latest response: https://imgur.com/ml0IR2e
>
>> We hire third-parties who are from the area being mapped to tag the
>> location of establishments, landmarks, and other government offices. They
>> will send to us the coordinates and the names of the places, and will be
>> encoded accordingly by a third-party.
>>
>> The chances of having the same establishments, landmarks, and government
>> offices on the same location as Google is for the basic reason that we are
>> mapping the same areas on planet Earth. Unless, Google mapped an alternate
>> universe that would result in different mapping of the same locality.
>>
> FWIW, I previously invited them to engage with the LoCo through an online
> meeting, but instead got this response.
>
> Separately to the "copying from Google" issue:
>
> As a group of organised editors they should be following
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines
>
> If they're not doing that, we (the DWG) may be able to take action -
> provided that we can identify the accounts involved.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy (from the DWG)
>
>
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