[Legal-general] Flickrs WOE stuff

[SteveC]

So.... ignoring the lack of OSM attribution on the OSM map (hint  
hint :-)

	http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/

Aren't these polygons just vast derivative works of either OSM or  
TeleAtlas/NavTeq data? All those geocoded photos that were just placed  
on a map... derive the places from the map, right? Then if you derive  
the polygons from that set of points.. the polygons are just derived  
from the map. I thought those guys dont like you deriving polygonal  
datasets without paying them extra beer tokens?

I applaud aaron and dan and all the coolness at flickr and the JFDI  
attitude, I really do... but if you guys are doing it, does that mean  
we can do it too? Please?

Because, if it is cool to do what you're doing, then by extension it  
must be cool for me to derive polygons raw from the data. And, say,  
um, vectors.

You're generating these convex hulls from the point data set (well,  
maybe, some don't look convex), I wonder what the voronoi polygons of  
WOE points look like, any better?

Unless I've missed something and in fact all those images are EXIF  
geotagged from raw GPS?

Yours pointing pointedly at the Elephant In The Room,

Steve