[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

Sybren A. Stüvel sybren at stuvel.eu
Wed Sep 9 22:21:34 BST 2009


On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:06:07PM +0100, David Earl wrote:
> we are potentially infringing the copyright of the map used to
> geolocate it. This applies even to CCbySA photos gelocated on flickr
> etc, unless they were located using OSM in the first place, or by
> GPS.

But there is no way to know this - right? I geolocate my photos using
GPS, but use Flickr API functions to place geotag the photo so that it
shows on the Flickr map. The location itself is thus not derived from
their map, but there is no way to know that.

Cheers,
-- 
Sybren Stüvel
http://stuvel.eu/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sybrenstuvel
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