[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

Toby Murray toby.murray at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 18:34:16 UTC 2016


I'm guessing they are claiming trademark rights on the term "Street
View" which is not entirely unreasonable. (IANAL, etc)

Toby


On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:
> 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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