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Some people are even using google street view to do this - not sure what the licensing rules if any are there.
by slownews45 5y ago
Some people are even using google street view to do this - not sure what the licensing rules if any are there.
- Freak_NL 5y agoDon't stimulate this. It is a legal grey area and actively discouraged by the OSM community. It's just too close to directly copying from Google Maps, which is infringement of their IP. Morally speaking, any information you derive from a photograph taken in a public area should not be encumbered in any way, but Google's pockets are a little too deep to risk a lawsuit for OpenStreetMap.
- chrisjc 5y agoBe especially careful if you come across an island that you've never noticed before in any of the photos that you're using.
- slownews45 5y agoNot an attorney, but I always thought google had TOS against using their data to create or augment any other mapping related dataset. So I'm not recommending this either. Just wanted to mention that while the OSM community get's very bent out of shape around potential copying by google, it's not impossible people are sneaking a peak at street view and google sat data to augment OSM.