randomnumber's Comments
| Changeset | When | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 166437498 | 7 months ago | Basically, the Conservancy and Washington International School were carved out of the Estate. The estate covers the historically unified buildings and gardens. Since the 1980s, the school bought the buildings and a nature conservancy organization (Tregaron Conservancy) preserved the gardens as a park (also called Tregaron Conservancy), but the school should not be marked park because the grounds are not open to the public. The two cooperate, and share some access (north road) but are distinct landowners with different land uses. I don't think it's redundant to keep the estate area, since it has historic preservation status, and is noteworthy in its own right. What do you think? |
| 149030117 | over 1 year ago | I have not and will not add data from copyrighted sources. Google expressly indicates that "Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property rights that you have in your content." https://policies.google.com/terms That means the copyright in any photos uploaded to Google are held by the person who uploaded it. That is why the note below each of them says "Images may be subject to copyright," and not "Copyright Google." Additionally, as I stated before, there is no copyright in factual information. Google says this in their license: "This license doesn’t cover these types of content: publicly-available factual information that you provide, such as corrections to the address of a local business. That information doesn’t require a license because it’s considered common knowledge that everyone’s free to use." https://policies.google.com/terms Again, your hyper-zealous understanding of copyright law would mean that you cannot mark a business closed if you got that information from a newspaper, book, TV show, or website which is copyrighted. In the last 3 weeks you have wrongly accused me of adding data I didn't add, complained about adding roads which clearly exist and may be mapped per OSM rules, and now you're on me about copyright laws which you don't understand. You clearly have a lot of knowledge, passion, and experience, and I welcome productive feedback on my contributions. But if you don't chill out I'll just mute you so I don't get chastised about this baseless bullshit twice a week. There aren't many people contributing to OSM Ghana. Let's work together. |
| 149030117 | over 1 year ago | Here's an example. Say I am exploring Google Maps one day and discover that there is a cemetery on the south side of Tweneduase. Some other time, I watch a video driving of a person driving through Tweneduase and confirm that there is a cemetery on the south side of Tweneduase. Later that week I see photos of headstones geotagged near the south side of Tweneduase. Later that month I talk to family member from the area and she confirms from her personal knowledge that there is a cemetery on the south side of Tweneduase. This content is not created based on Google Maps. I may have been made aware of a fact by Google Maps and subsequently confirmed that fact with user generated material to which Google does not hold a copyright. Under your overly strict interpretation I could not buy a newspaper which refers to a "cemetery on the south side Tweneduase" and subsequently map it because I initially became aware of this fact from a copyrighted newspaper article. I do not and will not harvest data in violation of EULA. |
| 149030117 | over 1 year ago | No copyright was infringed. Nothing was traced. Location information was derived from a variety of online sources. Google does not assert a copyright in photos users upload to the website. If they did it would say copyright Google. It does not, it say photos may be subject to copyright. Again, I am not tracing, I am not harvesting from Google. I am doing what I said, synthesizing *a variety of sources.* For example, if I watch this video and learn the location of various institution throughout the towns that are passed through in the video there is no copyright infringement whatsoever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29hQxXUv61Q&t=218s Refer to the terms of the Google Maps user license: (c) No Creating Content From Google Maps Content. Customer will not create content based on Google Maps Content. For example, Customer will not: (i) trace or digitize roadways, building outlines, utility posts, or electrical lines from the Maps JavaScript API Satellite base map type; (ii) create 3D building models from 45° Imagery from Maps JavaScript API; (iii) build terrain models based on elevation values from the Elevation API; (iv) use latitude/longitude values from the Places API as an input for point-in-polygon analysis; (v) construct an index of tree locations within a city from Street View imagery; or (vi) convert text-based driving times into synthesized speech results. |
| 149030117 | over 1 year ago | Various online maps, cross referenced with geotagged photos and video of the region. For example, there are 78 photos confirming the location of the cemetery: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Twenedurase+Cemetery/@6.6041096,-0.7822632,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMTf1mnddl-_7Hc9T7n4oA_JOnX3E40n0-BDSmq!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMTf1mnddl-_7Hc9T7n4oA_JOnX3E40n0-BDSmq%3Dw152-h86-k-no!7i1920!8i1080!4m15!1m7!3m6!1s0xfd93b6982a74d41:0xa4d425ee4b51a5ed!2sTwenedurase-kwahu+signpost!8m2!3d6.6012516!4d-0.7785561!16s%2Fg%2F11t61qvy63!3m6!1s0xfd93b109cf09785:0xab10f8d7827eb4f6!8m2!3d6.6040312!4d-0.782512!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F11t6071cjp?entry=ttu |
| 149037189 | almost 2 years ago | RapiD doesn't generate land use areas. I mapped it manually trough tracing in the RapiD editor, hence the tag as RapidID. My edits mapped the area better than it was when I found it. |
| 149029875 | almost 2 years ago | didn't add that grassland, but must have accidentally done a small edit when working nearby. i agree that grassland does not make sense, and actually considered deleting. |
| 90944648 | over 5 years ago | that's fair. forgot to upload the earlier edits before i moved on |