[Tagging] Lyft and nameless sectioning in OSM

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 07:58 2022-10-12, Marc_marc đã viết:
> Le 11.10.22 à 20:48, Andy Townsend a écrit :
> 
>> That was added in https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/127101982 , 
> 
> I am surprised that no one is concerned about the compatibility
> between its proprietary source and osm

Lyft's policy lead has clarified to the U.S. community and in various 
changeset comments that the proprietary sources consist street-level 
imagery collected by their drivers, plus aerial imagery they've licensed 
from a vendor for the purpose of mapping in OSM. [1][2] They're 
asserting that they already have the requisite rights to contribute this 
data to OSM. Personally I've been satisfied about the licensing aspect, 
but IANAL.

Verifiability is another matter, but then again, I've lost count of the 
times I've justified my own edits on the basis of "survey" or "local 
knowledge". From what I've seen, whenever another mapper contests an 
edit on the basis of publicly available imagery, Lyft does provide 
access to the specific street-level image that they used. [3][4] This 
has actually convinced me to retain more of my field surveying notes and 
photos, whereas previously I often deleted them after uploading the 
changes to OSM.

[1] 
https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1631799042255700?thread_ts=1630357887.047200&cid=C029HV951
[2] 
https://osmus.slack.com/archives/CCJ2P6KCH/p1640163087244900?thread_ts=1640129896.237000&cid=CCJ2P6KCH
[3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/110957115
[4] https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121425257

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