[OSM-talk] Australia has Google Street View!

[Joseph Gentle]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:

> Joseph Gentle wrote:
>
>> You can see my beautiful city.
>>
>> http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-33.911633,151.24054&spn=0.03298,0.065918&z=15&layer=c&cbll=-33.9172,151.226114&panoid=SF1CU5fcTX8XqlKyXRxwog&cbp=1,123.60785767574839,,0,6.094238783200709
>>
>> Good for filling in all the missing street names.
>>
>
> OSM is effectivly providing a competitor to Google with regard to
> mapping. I doubt a judge would look to kindly on noting details from
> google street view to improve OSM.
>
> *However* this is a great oppertunity for Google to step up and Do The
> Right Thing. They should let OSM use it, just like how Yahoo let OSM use
> their aerial images. The register went into more details about this:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/30/google_streetview_open_street_map/
>
> Rory
>
>
OSM will not be a competitor to google until people can use OSM without
first consulting a lawyer.

-J
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20080813/54dfc164/attachment.html>