[OSM-talk] iD editor making copyright violation easy

[Clifford Snow]

+1


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Stephan Knauss <osm at stephans-server.de>wrote:

> 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<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<https://github.com/systemed/iD/issues/663>
>
> Stephan
>
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