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Toronto Police Service has major, systemic problems. But they also have this one:

TPS tweet image of Rowatson Park, Scarborough overlaid on OSM tiles in QGIS

This is my hastily-georeferenced version of the image from this Toronto Police Operations tweet over OSM tiles in QGis. Note the extreme similarity between the streets and building detail. But also note the complete lack of OSM attribution on TPS’s map …

Location: Upper Guild, Scarborough—Guildwood, Scarborough, Toronto, Golden Horseshoe, Ontario, M1E 1N9, Canada

Discussion

Comment from Kovoschiz on 9 August 2022 at 08:47

More of a they don’t know where their maps are from case. Applications have a part in informing credits to ask for attribution.

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