[Imports] Microsoft Buildings Import Inquiry

[john whelan]

Licensing is a problem area and one that the list is helpful on.

Cheerio John

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 11:57, Angela Morley <amorley at protonmail.com> wrote:

> In my personal opinion, I would assume items being imported in an
> individual fashion with human input are subject to the data license
> policies of OSM, but are not subject to the community imports approval
> process, as there's no risk mitigation to be concerned with. If something
> you want to add has a questionably compatible license, I would assume that
> would require license verification at a minimum, but this is a gray area in
> the current OSM policies, and should be specifically noted and revised in
> the import guidelines.
>
>
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:52 AM, John Whelan <
> jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> By this definition any import of data that has as part of its process each
> item added that the item is inspected visually using the todo list is not
> an import.
>
> There are a lot of building outlines that are being brought in in this way
> currently.  Are they exempt from the import guidelines?
>
> Thanks John
>
> Rory McCann wrote on 2019-02-14 10:09 AM:
>
> IMO a key feature of "is this an import or not?" is whether a mapper looks
> at each (new) object individually. If yes, then it's not an import. Opening
> a .osm file in JOSM, running the validator and then pressing upload is not
> looking at each feature individually, ie an import. Doing the above, but
> you use JOSM's todo plugin to (actually) look at each object, makes it not
> an import.
>
> "Has this piece of data been specifically checked by an OSMer?".
>
> On 12/02/2019 18:39, Mike N wrote:
>
>
> Checking in - Is the process of using Microsoft Buildings which are
> occasionally distorted by shadows and thus all have to be manually
> inspected still treated as an import, or would the process be classified as
> a Mapathon?
>
>    Thanks,
>
>    Mike
>
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