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What were Tom's arguments? It would give better perspective than just his conclusion.

"The board of OSMF are making mountains out of tiny pimples here. It seems that they want this to be some sort of organised corporate malfeasance on the part of Google which is why they have tried to link it to the recent Mocality incident where there was indeed clear evidence of such behaviour.
"The reality in this case is that there is no evidence that this is any different to the numerous other incidents we get all the time where users either accidentally or deliberately make bogus edits. The only difference in this case is that there happen to be two accounts (though we do not know if that is two people) and the user or users involved happen to (presumably) work for Google.

"That is the sum total of what we know, and on the back of that, and without approaching Google at all, two leading board members have decided to reveal personal information about two of our users."

I think the boards concens and response is fair enough, google employees have an obvious potential conflict of interest if they are vandalizing maps, even if they are acting by their own volition it is still something I would expect Google to take action around and publicly not condone, assuming even the most innocent of circumstance.

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