I often warn people on the OSM forum not to trace Google or use Google translation or whatever for use in OSM when I suspect that they do or want to.
There are others who do that as well. Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:29:37 -0500, Ian Dees wrote: > >> Although it may/may not be "illegal", it is definitely a breach of >> contract. > > Sorry for misleading title, but I still don't understand how this can be > permitted. > > Is there anybody in OSM community that goes to OSM users that do this > sorts of things and warns not to do it? > > The problem is that somebody starts tracing via "illegal" means (google > satellite images and other sources) and other people come after him and > add bunch of data (new streets and POI-s, addition street tags) that all > their data would probably have to be deleted as they are derived from > source that is "tainted", right? > > If google or any other company comes after him then they would probably > have to delete all data that has also been derived from his work, or no? > If it comes to that then work of much more people is wasted :( > > Is there anything that OSM does officially regarding these kind of people > of they are just ignored until somebody starts asking questions? > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
