[Osmf-talk] OSM and open data global aerial/sat images

[Dan S]

2018-01-16 8:53 GMT+00:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
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> 2018-01-16 9:22 GMT+01:00 Jaak Laineste <jaak at nutiteq.com>:
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>> Creating digital vector map from imagery (or from any other sources) is
>> obviously much more than mechanical extracting/documenting facts, there are
>> a lot of subjective and creative decisions involved: what features to map,
>> where to map, which tags to use and add, what should be shape of the feature
>> (where exactly put nodes), ....
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> yes, sure, I fully agree with you, but that's not the question here. The
> question is how much creativity / invention is in an orthorectified aerial
> image --- IMHO very few (there's some, e.g. the decision how to treat and
> optimize the color bands, from the raw data to the final product).

I believe "creativity" is part of the criteria for copyright in the
USA, but not in the EU (certainly not here in the UK), and so
creativity is not an issue - there is at least one jurisdiction
significant for OSM in which you don't need to assert any "creativity"
in your aerials

Dan