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REMINDER

As a Waze editor you are NOT supposed to use any external / unauthorized sources, INCLUDING Google sources!

Even tho Google purchased Waze several years ago, Waze editors are NOT licensed to use Google Maps [GMaps], Google Street View [GSV], or pretty much anything Google that is not found directly INSIDE the Waze Map Editor [WME]

Google Maps data is a mixture of Google owned data and external sources, that Google has paid for licensing with, however those licenses do NOT extend to Waze access.

All the data that Google has included inside of WME for access, is either data 100% owned by Google, or possibly in some cases include external data that has a license that DOES include Waze access.

So even tho many of the images appear to be identical, we as editors can not know for sure what is legally allowed or not.

The smarter than me people at Google have already sorted all this out and included it in Waze/ WME/ WME Street View [WSV] for me.

Waze had to delete an entire country worth of data due to illegally acquired info that was added to the Waze map.

The better choice would be use a PL to a WME segment and then the editor can access the WME/ WSV]

or for those editors that might be mobile, you can try to screenshot your WSV image and share that