I was interested to see that a object that I added to OSM appeared on GMaps after I added it to OSM. I added this houseboat to OpenStreetMap a couple of years ago. There are many houseboats along that stretch of the Jhelum River, most/all of them floating guest houses. I only added that one, because it was the one I'd stayed in, and I really liked it (Run by a great group of brothers). I was surprised when, a couple months ago, I saw it on Google Maps (see here). I'm not on GMaps very often, so it could have easily been there for a year or even longer w/o me noticing it. I guess that GMaps still has some volunteer editors, so that could have been the explanation, but it still doesn't sit right with me for them to take info from us, w/o attribution. What could the explanation be? asked 01 Oct '16, 02:11  keithonearth |
One Answer:
The geometry has not been copied, it corresponds to Google imagery rather than to OSM: How it came to be that a single matching houseboat was added is more puzzling. answered 01 Oct '16, 19:15  maxerickson |
