[OSM-talk] Google Maps importing OSM data in Osage County without attribution

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi,
out of curiosity - is it possible to give us a link to the google mashup
(at that spot) for reference?

regards
Peter

Am 04.08.2013 01:51, schrieb Paul Johnson:
> A few weeks ago, I converted "County Road XXXX" in (and in a few cases,
> immediately around) Osage County, Oklahoma, since these roads don't have a
> name, just a number, and as we all know, references are not names.  Didn't
> think much of it until, lo and behold, I look at a Google Maps mashup, and
> see a literally route-for-route identical conversion on Google Maps,
> including stray conversions in immediately adjacent counties.  Google is
> not attributing this data properly, and it's pretty glaring in both cases
> considering that I've only done Osage County and immediately adjacent stray
> routes like this so far, given that unlike most other counties in Oklahoma,
> there's no complicating letters in the route numbers that need to be
> handled.  How do we handle this situation?  Do we have a contact at Google
> in cases of potential plagiarism?
> 
> 
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