[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Laurence Penney]

On 5 Aug 2008, at 14:28, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> dont avoid looking at them. But add names according to your own  
> knowledge.

Let's say I know reasonably well in my own mind most of the streets in  
the centre of the town where I live. Let's also say there's a  
particular street I want to name on OSM, but that I can't remember if  
it's "Kings Road" or "King Street". So I go to Google StreetView to  
check. But as I fire up Google Maps to get to StreetView, I  
accidentally notice the Google Maps label "Kings Road" on the street  
in question. I proceed to look at the StreetView picture, and -  
whether I find something useful there or not, but especially if the  
street sign is barely legible - my state of mind is contaminated by  
looking at the Google Maps label. In this state, I cannot add data to  
OSM.

- L