[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Anselm Hook]

And using contacts or glasses is a derived work too...  the vendor could
have twisted the photons to inject 'lye' street into your vision.

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Matthias Julius <lists at julius-net.net>wrote:

> 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
>
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