Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
@Pieren Well that is exactly the point: we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than other organisations. @Martin It is undoubtedly so that the information in question is -not- simply available for use. You need to invest the time and effort to actually go out and collect it. Google has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-04-08 10:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: @Martin It is undoubtedly so that the information in question is -not- simply available for use. You need to invest the time and effort to actually go out and collect it. Google has done so and that we should respect, regardless of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 08.04.2014 10:55, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer: 2014-04-08 10:39 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch mailto:si...@poole.ch: @Martin It is undoubtedly so that the information in question is -not- simply available for use. You need to invest the time and effort to actually

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Paulo Carvalho
-- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:19:51 +0200 From: Simon Poole si...@poole.ch To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey Message-ID

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-08 Thread Simon Poole
Am 08.04.2014 16:16, schrieb Paulo Carvalho: .. I guess I missed something. Can you, please, explain that? I didn't get the IP issues part and consequently why Google unlikely would be the problem. That leads to the question about who would pose problems. There is simply a

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Message: 3 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 02:38:07 +0200 From: Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtualsurvey Message-ID

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread jonathan
This is obviously a legal grey area and until it ends up in court I suspect it will remain a grey area. However, I feel what IS black and white is that if we were to officially use Google StreetView or any non-open source to build our data then we should expect a lawsuit from Google or any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Michael Collinson
I think the License Working Group would echo exactly what Jonathan says. While it does not solve the problem of being able to map where there are no mappers, may I also seize the opportunity to promote John McKerrell's excellent OpenStreetView? It is a great under-exploited tool!

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Simon Poole
Most has already been said on this topic. Just one comment on the, superficially sane sounding, idea of getting a declaratory judgement: forgetting the ethical side of it (do we really want to use data collected by somebody that doesn't want us to do so?), we would need such a judgement in -every-

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 07/apr/2014 um 19:57 schrieb Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: forgetting the ethical side of it (do we really want to use data collected by somebody that doesn't want us to do so?), from an ethical point of view you could also see it like this: as the information (geographic facts) in the

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-07 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 18:04:58 +0200 From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey Message-ID: 5342ccaa.8080...@ayeltd.biz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote: Am 06/apr/2014 um 01:24 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: or if a court decision says *exactly* that it is OK to copy stuff for OSM. how would you get that decision if you didn't use the material

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-06 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 07/apr/2014 um 02:24 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com: You can always file for a declaratory judgment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaratory_judgment interesting, wouldn't it be a good idea to try this for deriving facts from google sat or street view? On the other

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Dear fellow mappers, Let me present myself to you. I'm a OSM mapper from the Brazil community and a question rose there which caused a split in the group regarding Google Street View to perform virtual surveys, such as taking notes of house numbers and plotting them in the maps. After

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 05.04.2014 17:50, Paulo Carvalho wrote: Google Street View photos depict reality or facts, thus I could use them to observe reality and derive interpretations which would be genuine creative work. It would be illegal to use the images in Mapillary, for instance, but the facts

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Paulo Carvalho paulo.r.m.carva...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow mappers, Let me present myself to you. I'm a OSM mapper from the Brazil community and a question rose there which caused a split in the group regarding Google Street View to perform virtual

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
The general opinion on this list has been, for cases where there wasn't a clear-cut license that answers these questions: We'll use the data if the copyright owner says we can use it. Bye Frederik I recon that the images are copyrighted, not the objects depicted by them.

[OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paulo Carvalho
Hi, You may find more discussion of this topic on this OSM help page: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/710/can-i-use-google-streetview-to-help-create-maps I see many people agree that we can use the images to access reality. This does not mean we're using the images themselves, which

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
FWIW, I agree with you that it should not be a case of copyright infringement to obtain uncopyrightable facts from copyroghted sources. Here's a blog post that even argues that it is OK to trace from Google's satellite imagery: http://www.systemed.net/blog/legacy/100.html But OSM does not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 6 April 2014 00:04, Paulo Carvalho paulo.r.m.carva...@gmail.com wrote: https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/710/can-i-use-google-streetview-to-help-create-maps I see many people agree that we can use the images to access reality. This does not mean we're using the images themselves,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey

2014-04-05 Thread Paul Norman
From: Paulo Carvalho [mailto:paulo.r.m.carva...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 8:51 AM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform virtual survey Dear fellow mappers, Let me present myself to you. I'm a OSM mapper from