[Openstreetmap] Re: road names

[Frank Mohr]

Alex L. Mauer wrote:
> Lars Aronsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>This would obviously be "the right thing" to do, and I think we'll 
>>regret if we start to do it in any other fashion.  In the end we 
>>might want to have building and house lot boundaries too, but a 
>>single center coordinate for each entrance (house number) would be 
>>nice.  You can do great by just having every 10th number or one 
>>number at every street corner.  But a coordinate for the entrance 
>>is the data structure I'd recommend.
> 
> 
> Yeah, but I could see some people having problems with privacy
> implications of that.  Not to mention the massive amount of data
> gathering/entry it would add to the project.
> 
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
> 

the privacy implications was discussed when a company wanted to offer
a image database of all buildings in germany

in 1999 a company named teleinfo announced to create a map with
panorama images for almost every street in germany
("City Server")

it seemed that even the federal and different federal state
data protection officers didn't agree if it was allowed or not

a summary by the privacy office of Schleswig-Holstein
(sorry .. only in german)
http://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/material/themen/gebaeude/index.htm

frank

	

	
		
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