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This title seems inaccurate. The article makes it sound like the data is just retrieved, from Microsoft, when using a specific editor. OSM doesn’t actually have the data nor are they are distributing it.

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The article’s title is: Bing Maps Streetside Imagery Now Integrated into OpenStreetMap iD Editor.

The current title here on HN which is just wrong is: Microsoft contributed 5PB street view data to OpenStreetMap.

Yes, I don't believe they are licensing the data.

(edit: my mistake, there is a license of sorts, see the comment below)

It's a narrow license, allowing the imagery to be used to verify information being added to OSM:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/pull/5050#issuecomment-3...

Question 3 is the interesting part giving some examples of how they expect it to be used and an example of how it shouldn't be used.

Exactly. The title is pretty bad. All they are doing is displaying the data in one particular editor. It's like displaying google streetmaps in another window when you edited open streetmaps - there is no "contribution" of data at all.

This is not true. What you described would violate Google’s copyright on their mapping data (or the copyright owner they’ve licensed it from, depending on the data).

this +100000. The huge-ness of this contribution to making openstreetmap better is underscored by the fact that you're not allowed to do this with Google Street View (Section 10) https://developers.google.com/maps/terms

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