[Talk-us] Possible coping from Google Maps

[Rick Marshall]

I mistakenly sent this to Greg and not the entire list.  So, I'll
retry it again:

Hello all.  I am still fairly new to OSM, so I don't know all the ins
and outs.  But I have to ask a question.  Other than Google Mapmaker
is there any other ways that Google's data gets updated?  I recently
made several updates of walking trails in a local park here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.58835&lon=-89.88472&zoom=16&layers=M

And I just noticed the other day that the same updates I made to the
trail system (including the names) within OpenStreetMap showed up in
Google Maps:

 http://goo.gl/maps/mJJMs

Does Google import any data from OSM?  How do we know the data that is
subject to this post was in Google Maps first?

Take care and have a great week.

Rick Marshall

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Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP
President
Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo)
130 Sawgrass Ln
O'Fallon, IL  62269
(618) 670-4259
rick.marshall at verticalgeo.com
http://www.verticalgeo.com
http://www.culturescapes.net
Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com


> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Chris Lawrence <lordsutch at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Feb 21, 2013 1:19 AM, "James Mast" <rickmastfan67 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The user who added the interchange has no GPS traces listed for his
>>> account.
>>>
>>> They could have been using someone else's traces in JOSM/Potlatch - you'd
>>> have to load everyone's traces (GPX layer in JOSM) to be sure.
>>>
>>> You also would need to check the other free satellite overlays. Sometimes
>>> Bing is behind MQ, NAIP, etc. in updates. Also different zoom levels.
>>>
>>> And even then it's possible they used personal GPS traces they didn't
>>> upload.
>>
>> I have lots of traces, have drawn ways from them (in josm), and I
>> haven't uploaded any of them.  So not having traces in one's accounts
>> should not lead to the conclusion that GPS was not used.
>>
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Rick Marshall, PhD, GISP
President
Vertical GeoSolutions, Inc (VerticalGeo)
130 Sawgrass Ln
O'Fallon, IL  62269
(618) 670-4259
rick.marshall at verticalgeo.com
http://www.verticalgeo.com
http://www.culturescapes.net
Vertically Thinking Blog: http://verticalgeo.wordpress.com