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Re:Mapping the World by freerk on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @04:32PM (#8853452)
Looks nice, but I am disappointed they choose Google Maps over OpenStreetMap for this :)
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Re:Mapping the World by jpatokal on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @07:22PM (#8854272)
As far as I can tell, they're only using Google Maps for the display layer, the actual polygons are entirely theirs.
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Re:Mapping the World by rmc on Thursday January 08, 2015 @04:18AM (#8855596)
If you draw polygons based on what you see on Google Maps (or any other copyrighted map), your polygons might be found to be a derived work of the original Google Map.

Otherwise, you could just trace all the roads on Google Maps to make your own $BLAH Maps, that's obviously not legal.

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