[talk-au] Maxar bushfire imagery

[Andrew Harvey]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 20:45, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 06:56, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Maxar have generously donated some satellite imagery of bushfire affected
> > areas and they explicitly allow tracing for OSM,
> >
> >
> https://blog.maxar.com/open-data-program/2020/open-data-response-to-the-australian-wildfires
> .
>
> There's nothing explicitly about OSM on that page and the licence is
> stated (despite a claim of "open data") as "Creative Commons
> Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license (CC BY-NC 4.0). This licensing
> allows for non-commercial use of the information..."
>
> Have I missed something?
>

Yeah so if you click through to the landing page
https://www.digitalglobe.com/ecosystem/open-data/australia-wildfires and
then click the License button and then scroll down to see the OpenStreetMap
Exception.


> In the licensing terms, DigitalGlobe has a stated exception for
> OpenStreetMap. OSM is allowed to use imagery released under the Open Data
> Program. Even though OSM enables commercial usage, OSM is a critical
> platform for the disaster response community. Allowing usage of our imagery
> in OSM will enable faster data access by local communities as well as
> global relief efforts.
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