I also think it's a good idea to make the data available. For me, though, getting it into the OSM format isn't the big problem, so I figure I can just upload it straightaway rather than have it on our website in a download area. Currently we don't get a lot of traffic (just starting up now), so I doubt that a lot of mappers would find the data on our site. That's why I was asking about the licensing - the most effective thing to do would be just to upload it directly (currently there are very few buildings digitized for that area, but I would make sure that we don't upload conflicting vectors). I'd just hate for the data to go to waste, which might happen if it were sitting around on our site. The technical side is easy - I just want to make sure I don't get OSM into trouble by not attributing the data correctly to its source.<br>
<br>Daniel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Emilie Laffray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emilie.laffray@gmail.com">emilie.laffray@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello,<br><br>importing buildings is not really a problem in my eyes. If you look in France, you will see that we are massively importing buildings based on cadastral plans. Having more buildings isn't a bad thing, it just needs to be available in a way where people won't massively import them without checking if they have already been imported.<br>
Else I am looking forward to have LIDAR information.<br>Andy's advice are also pretty good.<br><br>Emilie Laffray<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 4 May 2011 10:08, Daniel Lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lee@isi-solutions.org" target="_blank">lee@isi-solutions.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Hello fellow OSMer,<br><br>I lead a small startup company from Germany that performs analyses of the rooftop solar energy potential in cities. As a proof-of-concept project we'll be using free data to perform our first solar analysis in America. The study area consists of two neighborhoods in Hayward, California. Using data derived from EarthScope LiDAR scans, hosted on OpenTopography.org, we will (among other things) identify all the buildings that we use for our analysis (somewhere between 1 and 2 thousand, if I remember correctly).<br>
<br>We'd like to donate these buildings to OSM. Naturally, the solar analysis data is irrelevant, but I personally really like having buildings on the OSM maps and since we'll be producing them anyway, I'd like to make them available to the OSM community.<br>
<br>In summary, that means that my company (International Solar Information Solutions) would contribute the building outlines to OSM with no licensing requirements. These data would be derived from the EarthScope Data, obtained from OpenTopography. My question here is: Both sources require acknowledgement (it's just a sentence that should be included with the data, you can find it here: <a href="http://www.opentopography.org/index.php/about/citing" target="_blank">http://www.opentopography.org/index.php/about/citing</a>). Can we donate this data to OSM, or would it be more trouble than it's worth? Potentially, other city areas would be donated in the future; this is a small scale project that should hopefully be followed by more larger-scale things.<br>
<br>Thanks a lot! I'd really appreciate your opinions/any hard answers that you have.<br>Regards,<br>Daniel<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>
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