[OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

[Lester Caine]

Floris Looijesteijn wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Sorry, but in this case how the **** would they know if someone had cross
>     checked something against Streetview? There is NO need to make any mention
>     of that and yes I do cross check, but MORE simply to confirm that Streetview
>     even has it visible. Around here coverage from Streetview is not complete
>     and some smaller roads have no coverage, so having looked is THAT now a
>     problem? I also check business address data against bing/google/yell - it's
>     not their property as they have copied it from other peoples sites anyway?
>
> By showing the relation between Streetview accesslogs and edits on OSM?
> They could easily do that.

Only if they can prove that anonymous activity on one is directly related to 
some identified activity on the other at an unrelated time ... I am sure a court 
would only accept a proven pattern rather than a vague relationship.

I have a fixed IP address, so am identified, but I'm still happy that viewing a 
similar area does not constitute proof of any copying.

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