[OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

[Simon Poole]

I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. 



"José Juan Sánchez del Arco" <jj_sanchez_almeria at live.com> schrieb:

>Browsing the web I just realized that Google Maps is including some
>data to their maps which didn't exist formerly. Why? Because they are
>exactly the same data I included in OSM. I just checked the University
>of Almería, in Spain, which have exactly the same building shapes I
>uploaded, the same streets and routes and everything. I guess it could
>be legal if they showed that data as free, but not claiming it as owned
>by Google. Can we do anything there?
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