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

[Clifford Snow]

I sent a message to a USGS employee in Tacoma that has helped me in the
past. I'm hoping he can direct me to the right individual.

Clifford

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Hans De Kryger <hans.dekryger13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> *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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