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

[Hans De Kryger]

It looks to me that there using here maps. Around my area it's pretty much
dead on with what here maps is shows.

*Regards,*

*Hans*


*http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/TheDutchMan13>*


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> 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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