[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Eric Wolf]

I didn't realize the imagery was opened up for world wide use. Last I heard,
it was only in the US.
-Eric

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USGS Geographer
Center of Excellence in GIScience
PhD Student
CU-Boulder - Geography



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Shaun McDonald <shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk>wrote:

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> On 8 Sep 2009, at 22:21, Eric Wolf wrote:
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>> Further, you should only be using satellite imagery to generate OSM data
>> if the copyright has been released for that purpose (like Yahoo's imagery in
>> the US) or if the imagery is provided without restriction (like USGS
>> imagery).
>>
>
> Why do you state Yahoo's imagery _in the US_, when in fact we are allowed
> to use it worldwide?
>
> Shaun
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>
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