[OSM-talk] OSM data and Google Maps

[Jim Brown]

I strongly agree...  Most errors are honest mistakes and we should always start with the presumption of innocence.

Jim Brown

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On 3 Nov 2010, at 09:35, "Jukka Rahkonen" <jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi> wrote:

> Martijn van Exel <m <at> rtijn.org> writes:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Ed - Big thumbs up for the quick response to this. Makes one wonder though - 
>> how much OSM data lives in Google Maps without us / you knowing about it, and
>> what measures can you take / are in place to prevent and detect this?
> 
> I am pretty sure that we also have data which are derived or even directly
> imported from Google Maps and other non-free datasets inside OSM even we
> shouldn't. We have removed such data in the past and we will need to do the same
> in the future. What is important is that misuse will be corrected when
> discovered. I do not like very much the Hall of shame list about misuse of OSM
> data without having another list about our own faults. Google removed the data
> very fast and apologized just like we did with the Latvian case. Or at least we
> removed the data, not sure if we apologized. 
> 
> 
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