[talk-au] NearMap

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemed.net
Wed Sep 15 15:37:20 BST 2010


Simon Biber wrote:
> Who was it prompted by? Did NearMap themselves request it?

I believe John Smith initially suggested it to NearMap. Ben Last at NearMap
then e-mailed me asking that I remove the imagery. This was a month or so
ago, but I've been busy at work. AIUI NearMap removed the Potlatch link from
their own site a while back.

> I don't see why should NearMap be blocked for users who have not accepted 
> the new contributor terms.

I'd be happy to accept a well-coded patch to amf_controller, to query a
user's contributor terms status; and to Potlatch (both source and compiled
version) to act on this status and modify the menu/presets accordingly.
Obviously I can't speak for any of the site admins as to whether such a
patch would be deployed.

It would be a fair amount of work, and personally I'd rather spend my own
time improving Potlatch 2 than on the old Potlatch 1 codebase, which is why
I've not done it. 

In addition I feel very strongly that copyright on imagery does not, and
should not, 'transfer' to tracings from that imagery
(http://www.systemeD.net/blog/?p=100). That's why, for example, I expressly
didn't restrict tracing from the UK New Popular Edition maps which I spent a
lot of time and money scanning and rectifying. That's my own personal
belief, not necessarily shared by anyone else, and indeed NearMap disagree -
which is fine and absolutely their prerogative. I'm not going to spend a
whole load of time making a change which is against my own beliefs, but OSM
is a collaborative project, so I wouldn't object if someone else were to do
so.

cheers
Richard (Potlatch 1 developer)


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