[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Shaun McDonald]

On 9 Sep 2009, at 00:02, Ian Dees wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon at au- 
> kbc.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 Sep 2009 2:40:49 am Anthony wrote:
> > 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.
>
> not ok - if google has made a mistake (or an easter egg) and you  
> incorporate
> that in OSM - we will all suffer.
>
> How do you make a mistake with a picture of the real world?

It being out of date, or being geotagged wrongly.

Shaun

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