[OSM-talk] Comparing Google and OSM

[Steve Coast]

On 20 Oct 2007, at 02:21, Sven Grüner wrote:

> Thomas Wood schrieb:
>> I've put together an OpenLayers page which overlays the Google Hybrid
>> transparent map layer over the top of OSM Mapnik/Osmarender.
>> I hope this will assist some with the comparison of OSM  
>> completeness etc.
>
> Oh what a great tool. This is excellent to check if anything is  
> missing
> ...in Google, of course!

Guys this has to stop, and it's been done multiple times before.

You're tempting someone to copy data from google to OSM. Every  
previous time we've asked people to remove these direct comparisons.  
Don't get me wrong, it's very pretty, but if someone copies some  
copyrighted data based on it it's game over. And, we can't be seen to  
be allowing that as a possibility.

have fun,

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