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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hello everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>After a quick look at the data available for parts of Zambia I know well I would suggest that caution is used. I had a look at areas in the middle of Lake Kariba and there are buildings marked that are obviously boats or what are known as Kapenta rigs used for netting kapenta, a small sardine like fish. I also did a quick check in the Kafue National Park where there should be very few buildings and I suspect ant hills are being mapped here as buildings, something remote mappers tend to do as well. Africa is already full of very poor data, adding to it would not help in any way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Dave Jackman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Кирилл Сетдеков <ksetdekov@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> 30 July 2021 10:50<br><b>To:</b> osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Osmf-talk] google Open Buildings usage request<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hello, everybody.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Today I came across a new dataset created by Google, containing a majority of African nations, where they detected every building geometry, assigning confidence levels to every building.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://sites.research.google/open-buildings">https://sites.research.google/open-buildings</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Has somebody already written a request to <a href="mailto:open-buildings-dataset@google.com">open-buildings-dataset@google.com</a> requesting to use this data for OSM explicitly?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I can prepare a request in the nearest month and would be grateful if somebody could share a draft or an example of a similar usage request.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>After a quick talk with a local OSM group, I've found that <a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/">https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>for courtesy and good form reasons, continue to ask for explicit permission to attribute via our websites.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kirill Setdekov<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>