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Well and yet this is what I did and it worked, after around a year of waiting.
by emteycz 6y ago
Well and yet this is what I did and it worked, after around a year of waiting.
- Freak_NL 6y agoIt is possible that whoever Google has hired for the local edits uses OSM as a reference in response to feedback received via Google Maps. Not explicitly of course, because this is strictly forbidden, both ways, due to license incompatibility. For OpenStreetMap this is a very important point, because well-meaning novice mappers copying streets or points-of-interest directly from a proprietary map put the project at risk of litigation. Google will likely have such a strong rule in their own internal documentation as well. OSM strongly discourages the mapping of trap streets — fake streets that only exist on your map for unscrupulous competition to copy so you know that they did so — but it's possible that some mappers do put these on the map. I don't think one of the big proprietary maps has ever been caught copying one of these though.
- sabas_ge 6y agoNot trap streets but details (like small ponds in private areas) and misspellings were reportedly taken ispiration from over the years... :-)
- redis_mlc 6y agoI can confirm that Google appears to import data from OSM. I added a placemark in OSM in the middle of Bali, Indonesia for an Internet cafe a few years ago, and it's currently also in Google Maps. (The cafe has since been closed for a few years.) What's interesting is that's why I added it to OSM - to get picked up by Google Maps. :) What's even more interesting is that when I told people in SV that I was doing that, they told me since it was a copyright violation, Google Maps wouldn't do that. :) :)