[OSM-talk] source=Google

[Chris Hill]

On 18/05/13 13:31, malenki wrote:
> There are abot 33.000 objects in OSM which have "google" in the one
> way or another in their source tag:
> http://malenki.ch/d/2013-05-18_142122_scr_source_google.png
> Just type "google" in the value-field:
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source#values
>
> Any thoughts about that?
>
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Recently I asked a new contributor to the area I routinely check about 
the fact that he had tagged source=google on a changeset for some paths 
he had added. It turned out that he had legitimately traced Bing 
imagery, but he had assumed it was Google - the only imagery he was 
familiar with. This is now burned into the history, forever giving the 
wrong impression.

My take on this is that _all_ of these dubious sources need 
investigating with the original editors. Any real transgressions should 
be redacted, but expect some genuine errors as I found. These need 
marking or recording to show they are not worth investigating again in 
the future.

-- 
Cheers, Chris
user: chillly