cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57995511

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[–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

They used to use some data from osm, public transport in some parts of Poland, and they displayed the required attribution correctly:

https://xcancel.com/MapAmorePH/status/1453863816110952450

I have a feeling, it's just some users who copy from osm to gmaps, and they don't know it's illegal. They are already not the smartest people on earth, as they work for free to a for profit company...

I think Google's fault is mostly just not enforcing copyright laws. I've never seen something on gmaps copied from osm, but I reverted a lot of changesets because they copied from google. So your experiences are not as general as you think

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    How can you tell that something is copied from Google ?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Some people write that to changeset comment. Osmcha even flags changesets using such terms automatically.

    If something is suspicious, I can ask them in a comment. They can lie, but most people do this because they don't know it's illegal.

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