[OSM-legal-talk] Skybox for Good imagery

[Stephan Knauss]

Hello,

On 22.11.2014 18:19, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> On 11/21/2014 09:08 PM, Josh Livni wrote:
>> We know that some of this imagery can be especially useful in Crisis
>> Response situations, and therefore we are explicitly authorizing usage
>> of Skybox for Good imagery in any current HOT Activation
>> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/HOT_activation>, under the condition
>> that changesets and/or features that are derived from Skybox for Good
>> imagery and committed to OSM are attributed to Skybox.
>>
>> This could, for example, include the method of attributing Skybox as the
>> "source", or a similar method deemed appropriate by HOT.
>
> This probably calls for two things:
>
> 1. We will need a complete catalogue of HOT activations with exact time
> when they start and end and polygon for which the activation is valid,
> because any data that has a "Skybox" attribution and falls outside these
> spatio-temporal limits has to be removed.

I think it's very kind of Skybox to allow us to use their imagery to 
improve OSM and do some good.

To make things not more complicated than they need to be:
Could Google/Skybox provide a specific URL for each imagery set and give 
permission to use this imagery indefinitely as the original intent was 
for a HOT activation and assuming we credit the source in the changeset 
accordingly? Sounds a lot easier than having to implement bounding 
polygon checks and correlate this with date and time.

I don't know details of how you provide the data, but according to this 
page it's geotiff files.
https://mapsengine.google.com/00979750194450688595-08887688179650036554-4/mapview/?authuser=0

That file would be either opened directly in JOSM using a plugin or 
served by HOT/3rd party as tiled bitmaps.

Is this something you could consider making the usage of the imagery 
easier from a legal point of view?


Thank you,

Stephan