[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Wed May 13 15:55:08 BST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net> wrote:

>
> On 13 May 2009, at 15:00, Rory McCann wrote:
>
>>
>> StreetView data would be awesome to have, since it would massivly
>> increase the amount of information we could add. Footpaths, speedlimits,
>> number of lanes, etc etc, Theses are things you can't get from aerial
>> imagery.
>>
>
> I imagine that even if Google "made available" the StreetView imagery or
> data through an API the license would still be relatively restrictive. Look
> at the license for the maps released from Google Map Maker for instance
> (non-commercial use only).


The engineers I have spoken with said that they want to release it
specifically so that organizations like OSM can use it. This would infer
that the license would be open enough for OSM.


> As such I think that it's still likely that many of us would want to create
> our own alternative.
>

Agreed. Beyond the legal issues it's still a very technically interesting
project.
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