> From: Paulo Carvalho [mailto:paulo.r.m.carva...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 8:51 AM > To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform "virtual survey" > > 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. > > [...] > > Your thoughts, please
The Google TOS restrictions on use[1] prohibit "[using] the Products to create a database of places or other local listings information." My recollection is that previous versions of their terms contained similar provisions, but were not as clear. Using Street View as you describe would definitely be a violation of Google's TOS. When it happens the Data Working Group redacts the data to remove it from the OpenStreetMap database. [1]: https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_maps.html _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
