[OSM-talk] iD editor making copyright violation easy

[Stephan Knauss]

Hi,

the new iD editor allows to supply a custom imagery layer.

Nothing prevents users from using google maps there and start copying.

A while ago we agreed that making it too easy is not intended. JOSM has 
code to block Google from being used.

I had created issue 662 requesting a similar thing for iD which was 
closed withing minutes as "won't fix".
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/662

Is this new consensus in the community to make copyright violation too easy?

The JOSM code was added as a reaction because users had been copying 
from google aerial imagery, claiming it being legal and ignoring OSM 
consensus.

When it did not work in the past to tell people "don't use it", why do 
we expect it to work now?

I would like to hear more opinions in probably take another approach at 
the iD developers in case we want to have it blocked.

On a side note, adding the right tag in the changeset does not work. A 
changeset with google maps used as imagery is having this tag: 
"imagery_used = Bing"

For custom imagery I suggest to include the used URL, so at least we 
know what was used.

Created Issue for this:
https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/663

Stephan