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

[Paul Johnson]

http://trif.tulsawebdevs.org/  Browse northwest of the city into Osage
County.


On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de>wrote:

> 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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