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Which sort of contributions would you like to copy from Google Maps to OSM?

If you personally surveyed these places you can go to OpenStreetMap.org, sign in and then you can add your changes - OSM may already have the info so a straight import wouldn't be possible.

Make sure not to copy any of Google's details to OSM that you didn't personally survey as that would violate copyright.

Please reach out to me if you'd like a hand with getting started mapping on OSM :)



Wrong answer.. This effort does not scale. You want to make it such that facts added by anyone can be easily imported with a simple opt-in.

GDPR data portability could be expanded to include defined formats for export so that import can be done in an automated fashion.


> Wrong answer..

That comment doesn't provide any value.

> You want to make it such that facts added by anyone can be easily imported with a simple opt-in.

OpenStreetMap is much larger than just me or one company.

> GDPR data portability could be expanded to include defined formats for export so that import can be done in an automated fashion.

Imports are not an easy problem - how do you deal with conflicts? How to verify which data is more accurate?

Imports are supported, and there is a detailed process for them to make sure OpenStreetMap stays well maintained: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines




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