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This is an absolutely fabulous idea, great job. Some observations: * I chose 'Berlin' and when I selected the 'street noise' it played music. Viewing the vide

This is an absolutely fabulous idea, great job. Some observations: * I chose 'Berlin' and when I selected the 'street noise' it played music. Viewing the video, I see the YouTube video has music rather than street sounds, so selecting videos that have actual street sounds might be good. * I would like a 'night' mode where I can toggle whether I'm driving around in the day or night. Bonus points for different weather (I would prefer rain or overcast personally). * It would be great to have a 360/VR video to be able to scroll around or use in VR. Do you run into any licensing issues with the radio or video? I didn't see any free/libre licenses on the YouTube videos so presumably you're a take-down notice away from not being able to use these videos.

cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>It would be great to have a 360/VR video to be able to scroll around or use in VR. Having this in VR with a proper set of headphones on would be sublime. Really enjoyed this as is, although it has made me very homesick.
re 6y ago
> I didn't see any free/libre licenses on the YouTube videos so presumably you're a take-down notice away from not being able to use these videos. If the videos are being embedded from YouTube (as they appear to be), then there are potentially two different concerns here: 1. Whether the video owner is okay with their content being shown on another site. This is already controllable via whether they choose to enable embedding or not, and the YouTube TOS talk about licensing for embeds, so this seems okay. https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms#fb098d3e34 https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms#fb098d3e34 2. Whether the embedding is being done in compliance with the YouTube API Terms of Service. There could be some issues here. https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-ter... ; https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum-functionality https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum... (see "Overlays" section).
- abetusk 6y ago
  I think this gets at the licensing issues and the "non-commercial" sentiment of that type of usage, whether it's explicitly CC-NC or otherwise. Notice the "Buy me a coffee" link. Is this considered "for profit" now? This person is asking for donations and is effectively monetizing the videos, at least is a very weak sense. And thanks for that 'overlays' link. It's clear these types of sites only exist at the discretion of YouTube. That's unfortunate and all the more reason to try to enrich the commons with more CC0/CC-BY/CC-BY-SA work.

cmdshiftf4 6y ago

>It would be great to have a 360/VR video to be able to scroll around or use in VR. Having this in VR with a proper set of headphones on would be sublime. Really enjoyed this as is, although it has made me very homesick.

re 6y ago

> I didn't see any free/libre licenses on the YouTube videos so presumably you're a take-down notice away from not being able to use these videos. If the videos are being embedded from YouTube (as they appear to be), then there are potentially two different concerns here: 1. Whether the video owner is okay with their content being shown on another site. This is already controllable via whether they choose to enable embedding or not, and the YouTube TOS talk about licensing for embeds, so this seems okay. https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms#fb098d3e34 https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms#fb098d3e34 2. Whether the embedding is being done in compliance with the YouTube API Terms of Service. There could be some issues here. https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-terms-of-service https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-ter... ; https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum-functionality https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/required-minimum... (see "Overlays" section).

abetusk 6y ago
I think this gets at the licensing issues and the "non-commercial" sentiment of that type of usage, whether it's explicitly CC-NC or otherwise. Notice the "Buy me a coffee" link. Is this considered "for profit" now? This person is asking for donations and is effectively monetizing the videos, at least is a very weak sense. And thanks for that 'overlays' link. It's clear these types of sites only exist at the discretion of YouTube. That's unfortunate and all the more reason to try to enrich the commons with more CC0/CC-BY/CC-BY-SA work.