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All the map data of google is public, it's probably been copied/vectorized/etc, add some errors to it, remove some streets, shift the street a meter or two, you
by yolo3000 4y ago
All the map data of google is public, it's probably been copied/vectorized/etc, add some errors to it, remove some streets, shift the street a meter or two, you got a comparable service. Probably google has a lot of checksums in there to see if it's their data you're drawing, but since maps is almost an essential service I don't think they can abruptly remove it without consequences, one of which would be to allow a new service even on stolen data.
- solardev 4y agoScraping Google's maps tile by tile would take forever, and you'd never be able to keep up with the daily changes submitted by users, much less the network effects (traffic, live busyness, reviews, speed traps, etc.)
- stoicjumbotron 4y agoI have started contributing to OSM by manually adding my locality data keeping Google Maps as a reference. Feels good tbh.