And what happens if a civil servant uses Google Maps to place the street name signs? Then the real world becomes a google-maps-derived work, doesnt it? Lucas
________________________________ De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Anselm Hook Enviado el: mar 05/08/2008 18:31 Para: talk@openstreetmap.org Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View! And using contacts or glasses is a derived work too... the vendor could have twisted the photons to inject 'lye' street into your vision. a On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Matthias Julius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org <http://socks-openstreetmap.org/> @earth.li <http://earth.li/> > writes: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:36:14AM +0200, Erik Johansson wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stefan Holst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:58 +1000, Joseph Gentle wrote: >> >> >> >> Good for filling in all the missing street names. >> > Interesting question. Are we allowed to use street view images [...] >> [...] >> And since they are facts and not *indexed* in a database so it should be ok. > > That argument surely applies to aerial images also, and yet consensus is > that getting facts from them would create a derived work incompatible with > our licence. Well, if reading a road sign from a picture is creating a derived work of that picture than looking up a word in a dictionary also creates a derived work of that dictionary. Matthias _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org <http://hook.org/> http://makerlab.com <http://makerlab.com/> http://meedan.net <http://meedan.net/>
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