[Legal-general] [Geowanking] Flickrs WOE stuff

[SteveC]

Why whenever I post something like this to geowanking do I get three  
personal replies so quickly but no public backing?

I love you guys :-) :-) :-)


On 6 Nov 2008, at 19:02, SteveC wrote:

> 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
>
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Best

Steve