Comments on: Google Street View in the UK? / Crowd Sourcing for Commercial Gain https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/04/google-street-view-in-uk-crowd-sourcing-2/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: ayesha b https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/04/google-street-view-in-uk-crowd-sourcing-2/#comment-2672 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1662#comment-2672 i read the article on BBC website over the weekend. I am a google fan also, but am concerned that google is taking over…

]]> By: Keir Clarke https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/04/google-street-view-in-uk-crowd-sourcing-2/#comment-2671 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:52:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1662#comment-2671 I agree – why aren’t Privacy International going after the TV companies and the newspapers who show images of people, houses and cars every day without permission?

The big objection that Privacy International seems to have made is the showing of faces. Google introduced face blurring in street view a couple of weeks ago but for some reason that isn’t being mentioned in the reporting of this.

MapMaker is another issue – Google’s answer seems to be that they make the data free to access and free to use. There is a counter argument that they don’t actually make the map tiles free to access.

Ed Parsons is apparently now going to attend the State of the Map Conference so hopefully he and openstreetmap can thrash something out that will please all parties.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/07/04/google-street-view-in-uk-crowd-sourcing-2/#comment-2670 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:43:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1662#comment-2670 Privacy International come across as pompous asses in that article.
What I’m wondering is, since it’s not allowed to use a photo commercially without consent of everyone in the photo, how do we ever get to see crowd scene photographs in newspapers… Mysterious so it is…

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