wer-ist-roger wrote: > Hello Stefan, > >> Interesting question. Are we allowed to use street view images for >> mapping (filling in street names, amenities, house numbers) or do we >> need explicit permission like for aerial images? > > If your not sure about the legal aspect DON'T use it! > And from my point of few it is not allowed to use Googles photos.
And if Google were partly evil (though they claim not to be), they might alter their image obfuscating code (to blur people's faces etc) to identify street name signs, and transpose one street sign onto another, and create an easter egg in their creative work. Since they already claim to have the ability to blur vehicle registration plates, and people's faces, if this needs even a little human intervention to achieve, then it could be counted as a creative work, and subject to not only database right (the geolocation / rectification work of the images), and copyright on the eventual image that has has processing done on it. So. I wouldn't trust it, and I wouldn't use it, unless Google can explicitly say we're allowed to do it, and if Google can explicitly say that they're not doctoring the bits of the images that we're interested in - like street names, building names and so on) -- SImon Hewison _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk