[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio]

And what happens if a civil servant uses Google Maps to place the street name signs? Then the real world becomes a google-maps-derived work, doesnt it?
 
Lucas

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De: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org en nombre de Anselm Hook
Enviado el: mar 05/08/2008 18:31
Para: talk at openstreetmap.org
Asunto: Re: [OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!


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 <http://socks-openstreetmap.org/> @earth.li <http://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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