[OSM-talk] OpenStreetView name change

Craig Wallace craigw84 at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 9 13:36:11 UTC 2016


On 2016-11-08 15:34, 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,

Is it just for streets? Or can you add photos of footpaths, cyclepaths, 
railways, rivers etc. Or any other feature you can travel along.
Why not have a name with less focus on streets?



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