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

[Paul Johnson]

On the streets layer?  I don't doubt the other layers are lacking proper
attribution as well.  But OSM is ours.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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