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 surveys", such as taking > notes of house numbers and plotting them in the maps. > > After reading > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#2a._Can_I_trace_data_from_Google_Maps.2FNokia_Maps.2F....3F, > I was pondering about the impossibility of copyright and licenses apply > to facts and reality (not regarding philosophical aspects). > > 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 depicted by the images are not property of Google. > > Your thoughts, please > 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 Also, somebody has asked Google regarding Street View. Here is Ed Parsons' answer: "Checking the odd street names is OK. But every street name I would suggest > would represent a bulk feed." And "bulk feed" refers to the Terms of Service: 2(e) [You may not] use the Products in a manner that gives you or any other > person access to mass downloads or bulk feeds of any Content, including but > not limited to numerical latitude or longitude coordinates, imagery, and > visible map data Hope that helps.
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