Tag:source=Google, 2010-01-21

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Public-images-osm logo.svg source = Google, 2010-01-21
Description
Such tag on changesets or objects usually indicates copyright violation that must be reverted, but there is a known exception in Haiti
Group: annotations
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
Status: in use

See https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047236.html for known case where tracing Google imagery was acceptable.

Note that in general copying from Google Maps, or tracing Google aerial imagery is unacceptable.

See WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources/Old#Google_Imagery