[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Matthias Julius]

Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:36:14AM +0200, Erik Johansson wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Stefan Holst <mail at s-holst.de> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:58 +1000, Joseph Gentle wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Good for filling in all the missing street names.
>> > Interesting question. Are we allowed to use street view images [...]
>> [...]
>> And since they are facts and not *indexed* in a database so it should be ok.
>
> That argument surely applies to aerial images also, and yet consensus is
> that getting facts from them would create a derived work incompatible with
> our licence.

Well, if reading a road sign from a picture is creating a derived work
of that picture than looking up a word in a dictionary also creates a
derived work of that dictionary.  

Matthias