[Talk-us] Google earth, Google maps

[Eric Ladner]

Yeah, be careful with Google Maps.  It's owned and created by a company and
if you copy from it and they can prove it, they could sue the OSM
Foundation into oblivion.  They used to even have their OWN satellites to
obtain imagery.  That's serious money.

Typically, with local edits, I put "Local knowledge" as the source.  Sounds
more highbrow than "my eyeballs".  IMO, if somebody is challenging one of
your local edits, if they are not local also, they should be told as much
and sent on their way - UNLESS it's something that relates to a mapping
standard or best practice.  Then, learn from your mistakes and move on.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 9:32 AM 80hnhtv4agou--- via Talk-us <
talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> this was a tool on the map that measured distance.
>
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> Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:29 AM -05:00 from Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us <
> talk-us at openstreetmap.org>:
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> You are not allowed to use Google Maps as source.
>
> Have you used Google Maps to edit OSM?
>
> "since all the maps on OSM are old news like in my local area 7 months
> old."
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> FYI, world is larger than your local area.
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> Jun 13, 2020, 16:08 by talk-us at openstreetmap.org:
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> If you people want me to prove my edit by adding a source, and a person
> from the data group as an editor,
>
> asks me to prove it, and i redo my edit and he does not get back to me,
> why are you telling me I can not use
>
> google as a map source, since all the maps on OSM are old news. like in my
> local area 7 months old.
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