According to OSM's wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Getting_Involved#Recording_tracks_using_a_GPS_receiver Step 5), it would be a copyright violation to use Google Maps in any way to fill data into OSM. OSM insists in their guides that you note street names while you're traveling, since looking them up after the fact would constitute copyright violation.
-Steven On 4/2/07, Jonathon Suggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's an interesting question. What if you constantly logged your position (while driving). Then when you got back home, you could upload all of your data back to your desktop. Would it be legal to have a script analyze that data, and make "suggestions" from public sources (ie google maps, mapquest, etc) as to what roads you traveled. Once you verified that information it could automatically upload back into OpenStreetMaps (OSM)? Basically just reducing some of the time/effort required to upload information into OSM.
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