[OSM-dev] Yahoo Aerial Imagery

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Raghu Ram wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I am new to OSM mailing list. I am working on a project that can
> process aerial images. I have seen on the OSM wiki that yahoo aerial
> imagery is under creative common's license. 

That is not the case. Where in the wiki did you see it?

> Is the license applicable
> for everyone or just the OSM group? Also how can I download the imagery?

The imagery is copyright, subject to Yahoo terms and conditions. You are
not allowed to download it for any kind of "processing", you can only
look at the images through the Yahoo supplied APIs.

Roughly speaking, you can use the images to find geographic locations
(e.g. where roads are situated), and when you do that, Yahoo don't claim
copyright on those locations, but read the Yahoo terms and conditions
before you attempt anything other than using Potlatch or JOSM/YWMS.

What does your project do? Maybe you can work with
http://openaerialmap.org/ but they don't have much imagery, if any at
all at this stage.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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