[OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

[Brad Neuhauser]

>From the dates, it looks like most of those are from the Haiti earthquake
tracing, when Google allowed OSM to use its imagery for tracing.  See
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources#Google_Imagery

Cheers, Brad

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have discovered a lot of data in OSM that appears to have been
> copied from Google Maps. See
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source#values and type "google"
> into the search box. There appear to be over 30000 objects in the OSM
> database copied from Google. Anyone willing to help delete data and
> warn users? (It is a LOT of work to do this myself). Please beware
> that some of these objects may have been modified by innocent users
> afterward, please check the history to see which user originally added
> it.
>
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