On 13 May 2009, at 15:00, Rory McCann wrote: > > StreetView data would be awesome to have, since it would massivly > increase the amount of information we could add. Footpaths, > speedlimits, > number of lanes, etc etc, Theses are things you can't get from aerial > imagery.
I imagine that even if Google "made available" the StreetView imagery or data through an API the license would still be relatively restrictive. Look at the license for the maps released from Google Map Maker for instance (non-commercial use only). As such I think that it's still likely that many of us would want to create our own alternative. Incidentally Ed Parsons has on numerous occasions and in various ways (I think twitter might be the only "in writing" way) said that it's probably ok to read road signs that can be seen from streetview imagery and things like that, so it may already be possible to do what we would like to be able to do for OSM. John _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
