[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change
Glenn Plas
glenn at byte-consult.be
Tue Nov 8 15:42:44 UTC 2016
Does well-know-bully-company own the word 'view' ? I don't understand
why you consider yielding on this. They can ask all they want right ?
Glenn
On 08-11-16 16:34, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A few months ago, we started with OpenStreetView, the free and open
> street level imagery project made 100% for OSM with apps for Android and
> iOS. Since then, we not only have collected almost 300000 kilometers of
> coverage, but also received a lot of attention from both you and the
> press. This has also led to a friendly (for now) request by a well-known
> company with a similarly-named product :) to not use the OpenStreetView
> name. So we are looking for a new name. We have some ideas already but I
> wanted to ask if you had any suggestions for a new name for OSV?
>
> Thanks for your support and happy capturing / mapping,
>
> Martijn + the OpenStreetView team
>
>
>
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