On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:26 PM, James Ewen <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, my last message just got me wondering about other issues... > > We all know that it is not appropriate to copy data from Google, or > use their aerial photos to trace out ways. What about looking at the > Streetview photos and reading a street sign? Is that still a > prohibited action?
You might hire a copyright lawyer for a comprehensive answer. If you do, I bet you a coffee that the answer starts with "Well, it depends..." My understanding is that deriving info from streetview is prohibited by their terms and conditions. So until the OSMF is able to get permission from Google, scanning streetview for data to include in OSM is prohibited. > I can stand on the street corner and read the sign, which is kosher, > but I probably can't look at a streetview photo and read the sign... Exactly. Now, can you scan streetview for interesting places to visit and survey in person? Absolutely! Here's a favourite of mine. It's right on OSM, wrong on everything else. ;-) Streetview caught it during construction when the road, Kenneth Avenue was already permanently discontinuous south of Finch Avenue. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=43.77926&mlon=-79.4118&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.779437,-79.412173&spn=0.00502,0.007328&z=17 http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.779646,-79.411958&spn=0,359.992672&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.779742,-79.412004&panoid=z_h6cTugJa5umMJ1Hmz_Tg&cbp=12,347.77,,0,4.6 http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r8ws0b8cg1fq&scene=28275718&lvl=1&sty=b _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
