Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-07 Thread Fredy Rivera
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: It's clearly preposterous that both Jose Fredy's think their edits have been copied to Google. @Fredy - Is there really a locality called Granates when there is an existing 'Granales' right next to it? Not, Granates not

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-06 Thread Dave F.
It's clearly preposterous that both Jose Fredy's think their edits have been copied to Google. @Fredy - Is there really a locality called Granates when there is an existing 'Granales' right next to it? Dave F. On 05/01/2013 16:34, Fredy Rivera wrote: In Colombia abused google, copy your

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Simon Poole
I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. José Juan Sánchez del Arco jj_sanchez_alme...@live.com schrieb: Browsing the web I just realized that Google Maps is including some data to their

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Christian Quest
2013/1/5 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. It is even more obvious that it is not a plain copy of OSM data as the roads and building shapes are not the

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Greg Troxel
Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.fr writes: 2013/1/5 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: I suppose the obvious question is: what was -your- source for the building outlines? It is a fair assumption that google is simply using the same. It is even more obvious that it is not a plain copy of OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Fredy Rivera
In Colombia abused google, copy your data and makes them small changes, notice the Camino viejo I did it with my own GPS. http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnikmt1=googlemaplon=-75.18985lat=4.82902zoom=15 salu2 Humano On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-05 Thread Toby Murray
Both of these are definitely not copies of OSM data. The trail has more detail in OSM and they are offset from each other by several meters. And theirs doesn't go across the river. It is ridiculous to think that google is going to take our data and make that many changes to it before putting it up

[OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-04 Thread José Juan Sánchez del Arco
Browsing the web I just realized that Google Maps is including some data to their maps which didn't exist formerly. Why? Because they are exactly the same data I included in OSM. I just checked the University of Almería, in Spain, which have exactly the same building shapes I uploaded, the same

Re: [OSM-talk] Can Google use our data?

2013-01-04 Thread David Chiles
Is this the area you're referring to? http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnikmt1=googlemaplon=-2.40376lat=36.82924zoom=18 On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:19 PM, José Juan Sánchez del Arco jj_sanchez_alme...@live.com wrote: Browsing the web I just realized that Google Maps is including some data