[OSM-talk] komoot wiki on OSM

[Michael Collinson]

I believe the distinction here is between "referencing" and "using".  
I.e. nothing can stop you making yourself aware of something by looking 
up a reference book, map, photo etc but that does not necessarily allow 
you to "use" the information for your own work. For that you need to do 
your own labour, like going out and surveying.

FYI, this came up when we, the then OSMF License Working Group were 
talking to the South African mapping directorate, who were very 
cooperative. They monitor OpenStreetMap for changes, and then send their 
folks out to do a detailed survey. It allows them to concentrate their 
resources and we were quite happy about that. Seems a similar situation 
here.

Mike

On 2021-11-08 15:15, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:19 AM Eleonora Balbi via talk 
> <talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi Paul,
>
>     Thanks for following up!
>
>     I may have given the wrong impression here by referring to Google
>     streetview. We do not use other sources to contribute to OSM,
>     rather we use them to try to find supporting (or opposing, as the
>     case may be) evidence that backs up an edit request we get from
>     landowners or organisations who contact komoot.
>
> I am not a lawyer, but the Google terms of service would seem to 
> prohibit such use[0]:
>
> *Prohibited Conduct....*
> use Google Maps/Google Earth to create or augment any other 
> mapping-related dataset (including a mapping or navigation dataset, 
> business listings database, mailing list, or telemarketing list) for 
> use in a service that is a substitute for, or a substantially similar 
> service to, Google Maps/Google Earth;
>
>
> [0] https://www.google.com/help/terms_maps/
>
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