[OSM-talk-be] StreetView?

[Andre Engels]

2011/11/23 Tim François <sk1ppy14 at yahoo.co.uk>:
> If you want to stick strictly to OSM best-practices, you CANNOT use data
> that you have collected from Google StreetView and use it in
> OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_1.1

Which is a ridiculous guideline. Copyright is on creativity, it does
not forbid copying something that someone else has copied. Copying a
Streetview photograph is forbidden, making a drawing to copy it might
be, but using Streetview to see what kind of traffic sign is at a
certain place is not a problem with copyright. At least not in the
real world. But apparently Openstreetmap is not the real world.

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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com