[Gfoss] a proposito di dati...

andrea giacomelli pibinko at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 14:07:00 CET 2007


Cari tutti, vi giro un interessante messaggio appena spedito alla lista
generale gislit.

Anthony:  I took the liberty of relaying your interesting posting to an
Italian mailing list on free/open-source software.

se qualcuno avesse bisogno di traduzioni, non fatele in automatico ;)

pibinko

Anthony Quartararo <ajq3 at spatialnetworks.com>
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 13.48 (2 minuti fa)      List,

While we continue to research this and attempt to get the straight n skinny
from the aforementioned service providers, here's a question that is
puzzling us:  When a 3rd party content provider splashes their location
content on Google Maps (for example, but the question applies to all the
above), what part of the content gets transmitted to Google's servers?
Stated differently, is it possible, probable or otherwise reality, that
Google can passively capture the X,Y values of content, as well as all other
attributes of a content database (such as address, phone, fax, digital
picture, etc.) that the 3rd party content owner displays on Google's maps ?
For example, there is a neat company in Europe called Panoramio, they
provide a way for members to upload digital pictures along with captions,
etc. of places they visit, to a photo sharing site.  They also provide a way
to locate those pictures on Google Maps / Earth, and essentially, the
coordinates are then affixed to the digital photo to show the location of
the picture on demand when it is viewed by the general public.  Now, is it
possible that this digital photograph (which is by nature, copyrighted) is
retained or otherwise "added" to Google's digital content collection by the
act of displaying the picture over Google Maps using Google Maps site ?

Google may say that it does not own the content, and in fact there are legal
issues here, but I am seeking a technical answer of "is it possible or not",
and if not by Google, is it possible by an army of others, that perhaps have
little moral or legal obstacles to pirating proprietary geospatial (or
other) content from internet-based sites like Google, Yahoo Maps, VE, etc. ?
What prevents the provider (google) or other 3rd parties from reverse
engineering a content database and claiming it as their own ?

Best Regards,

Anthony Quartararo
Spatial NetWorks, Inc.

"geography:  the science of everything"
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