[OSM-talk] Usage without attribution: US Geological Survey

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Tue Feb 17 18:37:27 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Found it here while checking out a nearby earthquake I was notified
>> about...
>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000tiqz#general_map
>>
>> The "Street" layer of the map is very clearly taking tiles from Mapquest
>> Open (spotted at relatively low zoom over tulsa due to Mapquest lagging
>> months behind on that zoom over parts of I 244 and I 44 which were tagged
>> during major construction operations as recently as last fall in a manner
>> that which that renderer didn't understand, leaving gaps over the Arkansas
>> River on 244 and Midtown Tulsa near Lewis Avenue on I 44); confirmed by
>> zooming in deeper around the BOK Center in downtown Tulsa with a pretty
>> high level of detail of the block the arena is on itself along with a
>> number of city sidewalks from changesets I uploaded in the last week).
>>
>> "Legal" page is 404.  "About Us" doesn't seem to mention anything
>> either.  No attribution on map itself.  Only the "Street" layer appears to
>> be from OSM data.
>>
>
> Paul,
> I can verify that the street view is OSM. I added some service roads near
> my house which would normally show on a typical map.
>
> Do you want to contact them?
>

Apparently, Google decided this message was spam.  I think I trust someone
else to this if possible.
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