[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Tue Sep 8 22:20:37 BST 2009


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Anthony schreef:
> Is it okay to use Google Street View to confirm turning restrictions,
> street names, etc?  This seems like an obvious "yes" to me, but then, I
> would have said the same thing about tracing from a satellite photo, so
> I'm not going to try to guess international copyright law.

I know that it is allowed to use copyrighted data to validate that your
own data is incorrect, to then, survey your own data again. But I don't
think you can take the shortcut... although again "who is going to
notice" especially with that kind of material.


Stefan
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