[OSM-talk] Google StreetView From Bikes

[Lester Caine]

Yann Coupin wrote:
> The problem is that your reasoning doesn't take bus/coach/hgv into 
> account. You're probably going to be as high in each of those vehicules 
> as Google's cams are...

Not on many of the private roads that are now being photographed but from 
which large vehicles are banned - even when incorrectly directed by 
incompetence on the part of GPS systems that do not understand that a 6 foot 
wide road will not take an 8 ft wide lorry ;) The last 'accident' not far from 
here needed a crane to remove the vehicle in question :)

Simply filming and saying 'we will remove pictures if you want' is just 
arrogance that should not be condoned. Just like their copying of books 
without actually getting permission from the copyright owner!

> Le 30 juil. 09 à 12:04, Lester Caine a écrit :
> 
>> OJ W wrote:
>>> Maybe the big tricycle is needed to lift the cameras up above the 
>>> traffic?
>>
>> THAT I think is the big mistake that Google made. Pushing the camera 
>> head up
>> so that it looks OVER security walls and hedges is what annoys people the
>> most. If a person has to use a ladder to obtain a picture then it's a
>> violation of privacy, but if Google do it is a 'public service' - 
>> usual sod
>> the law arrogance :(

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