I'm guessing they are claiming trademark rights on the term "Street View" which is not entirely unreasonable. (IANAL, etc)
Toby On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Glenn Plas <gl...@byte-consult.be> wrote: > Does well-know-bully-company own the word 'view' ? I don't understand > why you consider yielding on this. They can ask all they want right ? > > Glenn > > > On 08-11-16 16:34, Martijn van Exel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A few months ago, we started with OpenStreetView, the free and open >> street level imagery project made 100% for OSM with apps for Android and >> iOS. Since then, we not only have collected almost 300000 kilometers of >> coverage, but also received a lot of attention from both you and the >> press. This has also led to a friendly (for now) request by a well-known >> company with a similarly-named product :) to not use the OpenStreetView >> name. So we are looking for a new name. We have some ideas already but I >> wanted to ask if you had any suggestions for a new name for OSV? >> >> Thanks for your support and happy capturing / mapping, >> >> Martijn + the OpenStreetView team >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk