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Google caught sabotaging their competitor's maps

         

londrum

1:43 pm on Jan 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

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After that recent hoo-haa about what they were caught doing in Kenya it looks like Google has been at it again.

This is being reported in this weeks 'Private Eye' (UK newspaper)

OpenStreetMaps, a rival to Google Maps, have caught Google's employees sabotaging their maps. They've been going around deleting major roads and messing up the directions in big cities like London and New York. They say that the vandalism is coming from the same block of Google IP's that were caught in the Kenyan Mocality sting.

tedster

6:01 pm on Jan 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Here are a few links about the story:

OpenStreetMap blog post [opengeodata.org]reporting the incident.

cNet report on Google Vandalism of OpenStreetMap [news.cnet.com]