[OSM-talk] Google StreetMap embedding Flickr photos

[Gaz Davidson]

On 1 March 2010 22:44,  <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> In my case (the street sign picture) they are purely displaying it as a
> whole so I guess that they are a collective work, however in the new fancy
> stuff they are actively blending photos into a mosasic which surely is a
> derriative work.

I guess that the new position, orientation and other metadata would be
derived works, while the mosaic itself would be just a combination of
everything and therefore a collective work. It would be really cool
for OSM-like projects if we could force Google to publish this new
metadata under a CC:SA license rather than have them remove CC:SA
images from their maps.

If this happened we could upload our own sloppily geo-tagged images to
Flickr or other hosting services under CC:SA licenses, then pull the
metadata back out from Google once they'd used their streetview images
to perfectly align them, then people could do all kinds of cool stuff
with the data: make our own street view, run them through Bundler to
get point clouds for the outlines of buildings for tracing, have
someone start a rival to Photosynth, maybe even a fully textured 3D
streetmap one day.