<div dir="auto"><div>Taking a picture is usually not illegal indeed. But sharing it in many cases is. Next to the privacy regulations already mentioned, people can ask to take pictures of their property offline on Google Streetview.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Google certainly has a good legal team, and blurring those pictures does cost some money. So there must be a good reason why they comply to the request (as opposed to blurring of areal imagery of military sites, which they refused for many years). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And in Belgium, most buildings even have copyright on them: the architect who designed the building had complete copyright, including on any pictures taken from the roadside. A famous example of this is that spreading pictures of the Atomium is forbidden without paying a license fee.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Luckily, most of these laws require the "victim" to request to take it offline. Certainly if you make no money from it, it's very unlikely this will have legal consequences. If there are legal consequences, they're even more likely for the platform hosting the images instead of the uploader.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So if you just use common sense and blur faces and license plates, everything should be ok. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op vr 15 mei 2020 20:33 schreef Jo <<a href="mailto:winfixit@gmail.com">winfixit@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Not only their faces, also license plates. And if you're doing it manually maybe also stickers with recognisable information.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jo</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 15, 2020, 19:38 Marc Gemis <<a href="mailto:marc.gemis@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">marc.gemis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I see no difference between contributing to OpenStreetMap via JOSM and<br>
iD or StreetComplete.<br>
Mapping a house, street, waste bin, etc. will not break any privacy.<br>
We do not map the names of the inhabitants of a house. Mapping items<br>
from someone's garden based on aerial imagery might be on the<br>
borderline of what is allowed. However, I do map sheds, ponds and<br>
swimming pools.<br>
<br>
Taking pictures of people is not a problem, it's what you do with them<br>
afterwards that is important. If you use the image yourself and map<br>
the things you see on them from your PC, it doesn't matter that there<br>
are people.<br>
If you post the image on a public website (as you do via<br>
StreetComplete), you have to make sure that there are no people or<br>
that their faces are blurred (e.g. uploading to Mapillary is OK I<br>
think).<br>
<br>
Of course, you cannot enter private grounds.<br>
<br>
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:49 PM wbrt <<a href="mailto:wbrt@insiberia.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wbrt@insiberia.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> a question about privacy of people in general (not the mapper) (in Belgium)<br>
><br>
> when contributing using for example streetcomplete: <a href="https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/westnordost/StreetComplete</a><br>
> answering the questions, i suppose this is ok juridical?<br>
><br>
> when taking pictures to make it clear for the mappers,<br>
> i guess this also ok, as long as people are not recognizable in it?<br>
><br>
> or am i wrong?<br>
> and can you get in trouble for contributing to openstreetmap?<br>
><br>
> The info i found:<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Limitations_on_mapping_private_information" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Limitations_on_mapping_private_information</a><br>
><br>
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