Nikita KaramovJun 22

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".

Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!

Show threadKill cars for climate!Jun 22
@kytta you can't steal open data.
Show threadjoostetoJun 22

@andrej @kytta
You can steal open data, if you put it on your own website and then claim it's your data, and no-one can copy it, as google does.

As described on the OSM copyright page:

"If you alter or build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same license."

https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Copyright and License

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

OpenStreetMap
Show threadMacCruiskeenJun 22
@joosteto @andrej @kytta but an individual fact of data, like whether or not a particular street was one way, would have no copyright protection by itself. There’s no ownership, so no theft.
Show threadfoundseed
@maccruiskeen @joosteto @andrej @kytta thats so weird how you say that info is not copyrighted, when the source they clearly pulled that info from, displayed it... Under copyright.
If Google listened to the edit through their "proper channels" that info would NOT have been stolen, since it would be from its own built in data source, not a copyrighted source.
Lol
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Show threadMacCruiskeenJun 22
@foundseed @joosteto @andrej @kytta The compilation copyright of databases doesn't cover the information in that database, because public facts aren't subject to copyright. Neither OSM or Google actually own the bits of street data that they complie.
Show threadfoundseedJun 22
@maccruiskeen @joosteto @andrej @kytta no one owns anything, dude, copyright is a colonial construct used as a tool of class war. So in that way, we agree!
Show threadMacCruiskeenJun 22
@foundseed @joosteto @andrej @kytta Well, the first copyright laws were passed more for domestic interests than colonial ones, but, whatever.