[OSM-talk] Bing maps is misplaced

[Jonathan Bennett]

On 08/12/2010 14:35, Maarten Deen wrote:
> I have never heard of this before and have never seen it documented 
> anywhere or seen discussed before. The only mention of "do not trace 
> from aerial maps" is when it is off Google's maps because we cannot 
> legaly use them.
> Never before have I seen a mention of "do not trace from aerial maps 
> where you do not have local knowledge".
>
> If you can point to previous discussions about this, that would be 
> very helpful. Until that, I support Steve's view completely.

See:

http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2009/11/10/the-pottery-club/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Aerial_Imagery#Problems_with_tracing_Yahoo
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-December/009304.html
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-January/008698.html and 
subsequent messages
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2010/04/28/1556 (last para in particular)
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2009-October/001753.html

...I'll have more later.