[OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

[Stephan Knauss]

On 03.11.2012 00:14, Andrew MacKinnon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  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
> I didn't realize this. Still, there is a lot of data in the database
> with source=Google which is not in Haiti, which is obviously a
> copyright violation. Presumably this is the only time Google granted
> an exception?

I strongly suggest to contact DWG and not try to do some clean-up action 
on your own.

How certain are you that the source tag refers to the coordinate? Culd 
also be the phone number of a shop found by a google search, right?
Each of these occurences has to be checked and the mapper contacted.

I assume someone intending to copy data from google would not not set a 
source tag. So the places you found must be cases where the mapper 
believes it's OK to use that data.

Stephan