[OSM-legal-talk] Is tracing from Yahoo allowed under the CT's

[John Smith]

On 18 August 2010 09:53, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> In my experience the Yahoo imagery outside the US is fairly low
> resolution.  But I haven't looked everywhere, so maybe I'm missing
> some.

They cover about 50,000km^2 for Australia in reasonably high res imagery...

> Apparently Yahoo gets the imagery from i-cubed.  I'm not sure where
> i-cubed is getting the particular imagery that they let Yahoo use in
> its API.  What I'm more confident of is that it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter that they may source their imagery from a commercial
imagery company?

> That's for "Contents" you "add".  You aren't adding satellite images
> to the database.

Well... Since you may be in breach of contract for deriving data from
a commercial service for which you haven't been given explicit
permission, that seems to conflict to me...