[OSM-talk] Streetview

[Martijn van Exel]

If not copying, then what would you do with the information gleaned from GSV? If you use it as a trigger for surveying ("I see on GSV that this street name may be wrong in OSM so I need to go check and see for myself") I’d say that would be okay, but other than that, I don’t really see what you could get out of an exercise like that without violating Google’s TOS and/or tainting OSM data with copyrighted sources.

Nicolas mentioned great ‘open’ alternatives, that is where we should be looking for (and contributing to!) street level imagery.

Martijn

> On Jan 6, 2019, at 5:01 PM, Alert Bouterse <alert at bouterse.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends, 
> 
> I know that it is not allowed to use Google Maps to "copy" streetnames, but my question is: is it allowed to use Google streetview to check streetnames by checking the photo's for streetname signs? That way I am not just copying but do a kind of survey through picture material. What are your ideas about this?
> 
> Greetings Alert Bouterse
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