[OSM-legal-talk] A questionable data source usage in Haiti in 2010

[Simon Poole]

The question seems to crop up at least once per year, in general I would 
suggest searching the forums, mailing lists and help site for answers 
before jumping to conclusions.

That said, your question is oddly ambivalent, so just to be clear: the 
permission granted in 2010 to use google provided imagery narrowly 
applied to the imagery available at that time, and the purpose of the 
Haitian relief effort underway back then. It clearly doesn't extend to 
use of google imagery in the decade following and now, and definitely 
not for any other purpose than originally indicated.

Outside of that there is no reason to believe that data traced from 
imagery back in2010/2011 is in any way tainted and couldn't be used in 
current OSM.

Simon

Am 24.07.2021 um 16:19 schrieb mappinglander:
> Hello,
> There has recently been a discussion in OSM Discord about 
> source=Google tags 
> <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/source=Google%2C 2010-01-21> 
> in Haiti. The usage seems to have documented at wiki 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources/Old#Google_Imagery>, 
> but seems like there isn't any explicit clauses about allowing to OSM 
> on the linked mailinglist posts, and the Google page says "Use 
> restricted to non-commercial use in or related to Haitian relief 
> efforts." Also, as that was before the CC BY-SA and ODbL switch in 
> 2012, I and other users have expressed some doubts about whether we 
> are still having permission to use that source on OSM. I personally 
> haven't contacted Mikel yet, or the other people involved in the 
> discussion and approved the usage on OSM.
>
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