[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Liz]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Richard Weait wrote:
> Well, his reply does not fill me with joy.
>
> "It was my mistake :blush: for openly stating what I was doing with
> Google Earths images, I should have kept quiet like everyone else."

I have been to places which have traced streets, and where no aerial imagery 
from Yahoo or Landsat shows such detail. There were some GPS traces, but not 
enough to verify the entire traced area.
Having actually visited and mapped some of these places I came to the 
conclusion that Google Maps satellite imagery was a partial source.

I can't prove anything, so I am not going to name any mappers who I suspect of 
using copyright imagery. I am certain that a subgroup of mappers will do this 
until our coverage is good enough to make this sort of tracing useless.

Liz