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I'm not clear what you mean by "reused what I saw in OSM". You probably can get by with comparing google maps to OSM, but if there is any difference you need to physically go to the error location yourself and see what is really there.

It is common for map makers to intentionally put a few errors on their maps, if those errors appear in someone else's map that is proof of a copyright violation. The location and names of roads is a fact that cannot by copyrighted, but errors are a creative work that is subject to copyright. I first heard about this in the 1980's when map meant paper, I suspect google is doing the same thing in some form.




Okay, let me be completely clear: I think that even a comparison tool between license-incompatible maps is a bad idea. Better?

(As for "why it's a bad idea" - it could tempt people to copy data from one to the other, which is definitely a Really Bad Idea)




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