That's a bind. Oh, well - c'est la vie, I s'pose.

It does raise an interesting question, though - when can something seen be unseen. To get away from the GE issue to avoid blurring: I'm an avid hiker and go off with my map and compass into the wilds to bash some hills regularly. If I were to, say, be stood on a particular hill and note that my OS map indicated the summit was Xm above MSL and then, a few days later, I'm browsing that area in OSM and notice that there is a peak node on that hill's summit but the ele= tag is missing and then add it using the elevation from my map am I violating copyright because I'm adding information shown on an OS map or am I sourcing "local knowledge" because I saw that info a few days previously and it's now knowledge of that location I hold in my head?

It's a conundrum I'm sure has a simple answer but I can't see it myself right now. Sure - there must be a line between seeing info explicitly in documents and that info being converted into "local knowledge" you then have in your head (I mean, the majority of learning is done by reading what others have written, looking at what others have drawn, photographed or otherwise recorded, right?) but where is it and is it clearly defined or fuzzy...?

Hmmmm - interesting. I shall mull it over the w/e, I think.

JG

Blimey! So, for example: browse through StreetView, see a business name has changed since it was mapped, close the browser entirely, at a later time open JOSM, change the name associated with the building and it's a © violation? Who knew...?! Apart from the obvious, who could tell either...?

I'll have to get into the habit of taking more extensive notes and photos when I'm out and about looking at mappy stuff, clearly! That or get a better memory...

JG

Cheers, chap...

For clarification; data isn't extracted from GE or StreetView; I just use them as a pictorial reference along with my dashcam footage and GPS fixes. I'm not actually aware of what data there is to extract from GE or SV - it's just photos, after all! Unfortunately, the source field in JOSM doesn't lend itself to lengthy descriptive essays!

I use a friend's drone to take look-down photos of new developments and then georeference them using Global Mapper. Sadly it is now illegal to fly a drone over buildings in the UK so am disinclined to reference it in the Source, even if images were captured before the ban...

JG

I dealt with a few of these highlighted as deprecated by Keep Right! and noticed that the new tagging scheme doesn't appear to render in OSM so put the old tag back in (alongside the new one) and they were shown again, with a view to removing the old tag again when the new one renders.

Perhaps there needs to be a review by whomever is in charge of such things to update the rendering engine to account for changes to tagging schemes? - especially for such useful information as the location of roadside emergency 'phones, even allowing for the almost universal possession of mobile 'phones these days!

Well spotted! Heaven only knows what happened there - probably had that section selected and then, after a distraction of some sort, went and held down CTRL to pick other edits having panned the map to another area of interest. Oops...