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Re:How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google ... by Spivak on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @04:03PM (#15647616)
You have it backwards. The postal service mounts their own cameras on the vans and then sells that data to companies wanting to build mapping applications.
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Re:How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google ... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @04:04PM (#15647622)
That data would then be produced by a US government sponsored entity, and should be licensed in the public domain.
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