Google's forbids many things, but looking at an image and noting the turn restrictions (or other content) that you can see within it is not mentioned. Such a use is not covered by "2 (b) copy, translate, modify, or make derivative works of the Content or any part thereof;" since the turn restrictions are something that you can see in the image -- not the image itself.
-Dave On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jonathan Bennett<[email protected]> wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> Is it okay to use Google Street View to confirm turning restrictions, >> street names, etc? This seems like an obvious "yes" to me, but then, >> I would have said the same thing about tracing from a satellite photo, >> so I'm not going to try to guess international copyright law. > The simple answer is that Street View is still protected by copyright, > and that by using it you agree to Google's terms and conditions, so > unless you have specific permission to derive data from it, it's safest > to assume you can't. We're generally paranoid about copyright > infringement because we don't want to jeopardise the entire project for > the sake of a relatively small gain (Street View tends to cover urban > areas, which are easier to survey in person anyway). > > You also need to consider that Street View still uses Google Maps as > part of its interface (and possibly for the overlaid navigation data), > so it's affected by the licence on that data. > > However, Google does own the Street View pictures themselves in their > entirety. If they, with the location and bearing of each one was made > available to OSM under terms compatible with CC-BY-SA (or ODBL), then we > could use them. We would need a way of accessing the images that made no > reference to any other geodata (so the standard web interface would be > out). It's something we'd need to negotiate, but we can't do it at > present, unfortunately. > > J. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
