<div dir="ltr">Dear fellow mappers,<div><br></div><div> 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div> After reading <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#2a._Can_I_trace_data_from_Google_Maps.2FNokia_Maps.2F....3F">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#2a._Can_I_trace_data_from_Google_Maps.2FNokia_Maps.2F....3F</a> , I was pondering about the impossibility of copyright and licenses apply to facts and reality (not regarding philosophical aspects).</div>
<div><br></div><div> Google Street View photos depict reality or facts, thus I could use them to observe reality and derive interpretations which would be genuine creative work. It would be illegal to use the images in Mapillary, for instance, but the facts depicted by the images are not property of Google.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Your thoughts, please</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Carvalho</div></div>