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
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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
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!
Going back several years, Flickr started using OpenStreetMap as a base
map for some but not all cities around the world. As a community, we
were happy with that. But it does mean that we are saying the you
publish a global map and have parts of it coming from OpenStreetMap
without triggering
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-
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
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
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