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

Hans De Kryger hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 22:18:47 UTC 2015


*Regards,*

*Hans*


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


On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

> Paul,
> When I get home later today I'll email a USGS employee I know. He can
> probably suggest who I can contact.
>
> Clifford
> On Feb 17, 2015 1:32 PM, "Paul Johnson" <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:
>
>> On the streets layer?  I don't doubt the other layers are lacking proper
>> attribution as well.  But OSM is ours.
>>
>>
​Yeah, where i'm at here maps is crappy so it stands out easy.​


> 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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