Imagine a country that prevents its citizens from recording a song they hear and sharing it with their friends. Oh, wait, US more or less does that and forces other countries to implement policies that prevent it or they will ban trade with those countries.
Not to mention that the US government gets any data it wants from banks, telcos, social media, google, etc., which is called metadata surveillance here in the US but it is used to formulate a variety of social "scores" such as one's likelihood to commit "terrorism", etc.
The US GPS system had the signals obfuscated for years so that precise geo coordinates were only available for non-civilian uses. Why bother altering the maps if you can alter the GPS signals. This was rolled back only because hacks were found to work around it.
False analogy. No-one claims copy-write on the physical world. Well, not except the CCP.
I think the analogy is perfectly valid anyway. You're just trying to find an excuse to compensate a dissonance. But all rules are arbitrary.
Eg the lights on that tower in france
Building designs are man-made and in any case this is about taking photographs and not replicating man-made designs.
Your comment implies a singular chilling thing, while his does not.
There's a big gap between a private individual looking around, and lots of private individuals coordinating to look at everything all the time.
Modern technology is making that gap larger year after year.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-...
Detailed (<1:2500000) topographic maps were automatically classified as a state secret, and restricted on a "need to know" basis outside of the military until 1989.
A detailed article on this explaining how and why they went about it: http://www.hundzor.org/lj/10postnikov.pdf
'Where the streets go' is strategically valuable information.
Apparently, the resolution was to create political POV versions, although the default seems to lean toward a "Western-centric" direction.