On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Andrew MacKinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unless Google has actually formally given OpenStreetMap a license to > copy Street View for specific purposes, clearly stating the limits on > what is or isn't allowed to be copied, we should not be copying Google > Street View at all. We do not want any legally dubious data in the > database. Again and again the same debate. We have to distinguish gmaps and street view. StreetView is just a collection of pictures. The street sign is not copyrighted by google, even if you see it through a copyrighted Google photo. And again, I will quote what Ed Parsons said to OSM : "so checking the odd street names is OK.. but every street name I would suggest would represent a bulk feed". See the reference here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-April/057473.html Pieren Btw, tracing from Gmaps is different and is a copyright infringement. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
