[OSM-talk] Possible copyright data.

[Rory McCann]

Yes, the person might have traced from yahoo. Do many of the streets 
have names? It's impossible to get street names from Yahoo imagery. Also 
open the area up in potlatch and see if the new roads match the yahoo 
imagery.

Rory

Charlie Echo wrote:
> There must be a way to know the last person who modified the data.
> The best thing to do is to get in touch with him.
> 
> Some of the data may be "legal", if, for instance, the person has a
> good knowledge of the area, and uses Yahoo! pictures. To have a
> complete set of data, the person may have used some other sources for
> some data.
> 
> Deleting everything may be a mistake. Keeping everything also....
> 
> 
> ----- Mail Original ----- De: "AdamC" <kabads at gmail.com> À:
> talk at openstreetmap.org Envoyé: Mercredi 10 Septembre 2008 22:00:49
> GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne 
> Objet: [OSM-talk] Possible copyright data.
> 
> I have suspicions that data on the map may have been copied from a 
> copyrighted source. The area was drawn up very quickly with very few 
> GPS traces uploaded for that area. Despite the lack of GPS data, the 
> maps are very detailed, even down to footpath level and walk-ways 
> between . Also, some of the data is inaccurate - specifically, a 
> boundary is incorrect and refers to where the boundary used to be 
> several years ago (possibly even before Openstreetmap started). 
> However, the boundary has since moved.
> 
> I don't have the time to trace GPS data and key this in. So in light 
> of this possible problem, how do we further check the source of the 
> data and then, if necessary, go about rectifying it? Obviously, I'd 
> prefer if the data were bona-fide. :-)
> 
> TIA Adam -- You back your data up on the same planet? PGP key:
> 0x7111B833
> 
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