I would gladly turn myself into a data entry worker on this project… if Google were a public utility generating data for the public domain.

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Google to use Google Maps' Street View data for new CAPTCHA

According to an article from InfoWorld, Google researchers are toying around with the idea of using street numbers instead of regular garbled up text. Some sites already use text from books to serve two purposes, verify the user is human and also reconcile the text in the image that the OCR was not capable of deciphering.

"The company says the experiment is not intended to turn users into data-entry workers by having them fill in Street View data, nor is Google planning to use it to confirm its existing map data. In addition, Google is not using the images of street names or traffic signs for the experiment, according to a company spokesperson."

http://www.infoworld.com/t/security/google-takes-captcha-security-the-streets-189867