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Do you have any additional details on this? If he found these locations via another site, is there something ethically wrong with what he's doing here? Or is the issue that he is just grabbing the original screenshot? What if he takes a screenshot of their screenshot?

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I know it's not original content, but if he is collecting and republishing interesting images that other people have spent their time looking for (rather than trawling through Street View himself), then he should credit the source.

I run such a site myself and have been accused of stealing from Rafman's gallery, which is impossible as he does not list the location for each image.

A couple of recent ones:

http://www.mapcrunch.com/s/72721_40ea8d2c http://www.mapcrunch.com/s/73672_22c31f74

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