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

[Clifford Snow]

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?

Clifford


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