[OSM-legal-talk] Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

[Tom Hughes]

In message <000e01c81bdd$05b94750$0300a8c0 at peter>
        Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain why we can't include this height data in OSM (with
> acknowledgement as requested)? I can't see anything that says that they do
> claim copyright and there is this statement from the Guidelines that seems
> to say you can used it for whatever (but needless to say IANAL)  

I think it's more a technical issue than a legal issue - how
exactly would you propose to include it? Contour lines as ways?

Ignoring the question of the massive size of the data, and the
storage we would need, I imagine it would make editing very hard
if the map was covered in contour lines crossing everything else.

It is such a clearly defined data set, and so different to the
rest of our data, that I think it makes more sense to keep it
separate - develop tools to work with the two together by all
means but I don't see any need to import it wholesale.

Tom

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