[Talk-us] Remapping is good

[David Fawcett]

I have seen more frequent reference to confirming street names using
Google Maps or Google Streetview lately.  Is this practice compatible
with producing clean ODBL and TOC data?  Is is compatible with Google
TOS?

People seem to scream very loudly whenever Google has allegedly used
OSM data for something.  (And for good reason!)  If this practice is
not legal/ethical/compatible, it would be good to have that reaffirmed
by the OSM community.


David.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
> This morning I decided to remap another street off Cypress Avenue L.A.
>
> I randomly choose "Ariva Street" and lo and behold the TIGER2011
> overlay said that it was Arvia Street.
>
> TIGER is usually spot on with names and since a Bing search and Google
> maps/street view also agree about "Arvia" this street is now correctly
> named (courtesy of TIGER).
>
> Luckily I also checked around the neighbourhood and found that,
> last night I had messed up Pepper Av (now fixed).
>
> If people are going to spend an entire night armchair mapping,
> wouldn't it be great if they all remapped L.A.
>
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