[OSM-legal-talk] Putting example satellite images in our Wiki

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Sorry to be pedantic - but do you really mean aerial pictures?

Yes.

> Why not ask the Geoinformation Group if they'd be willing to donate a
> license for an image of a junction? They supply Google with a good
> portion of the aerial photography used in Google Maps.

Here in Karlsruhe, Germany, it could be even easier as the city has  
the copyright to their aerial photos (and they have licensed them to  
Google). The problem is that granting such a license (which they'd  
probably be willing to do, I do not see why not) would actually cost  
them a fortune in man-hours spent understanding what I want from them  
and assessing the (negligible) impact it has on their business model.

Seems like I'll have to dig out my old pilot's license and produce  
some free imagery myself. Since Karlsruhe is already pretty complete  
in OSM, I could then use existing OSM data to orthorectify the images  
and start producing tiles for the OpenStreetMap aerial photography  
layer ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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