[Talk-us] Mapcarta with wrong info in Utah - whom to contact?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

27 Aug 2020, 14:37 by ian.dees at gmail.com:

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> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 03:03 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <> talk-us at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
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>> Aug 27, 2020, 09:52 by >> frederik at remote.org>> :
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>>> Hi,
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>>> On 27.08.20 00:30, Alex Weech wrote:
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>>>> They appear to be pulling straight from Google
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>>> Interesting! I didn't know you could (show an OSM map and pull POIs from
>>> Google).
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>> AFAIK it is not against OSM license but it is break terms of service set by Google. 
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> Since Google doesn't have a way to programmatically get this data about places, it's more likely that Google and Mapcarta used the same data source that list an incorrect phone number. 
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At least some time ago Google Places
API existed. Is it shut down now?

https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/overview
describes it as an existing
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