[OSM-talk-be] Authorization request for use of SPW data (PICC, orthophotos and others) and OSM representative

[Thomas Bertels]

Le 31/05/2017 à 00:39, André Pirard a écrit :
> What is the need to contact all those people after a SPW lawyer made 
> the situation clear?
To get an explicit authorization, like I said.
>> Following that, I've been on the phone with him and he told me that, 
>> like many already know, we can use the data from the SPW for OSM.
> Not at all.
> For anyone having understood the terms of the SPW that are clarified 
> in my "YES we can trace the PICC" message, we are not allowed to use 
> (copy) the (vector) data of the PICC but we are allowed to trace the 
> images of the WMS et al. services.
By "using" I meant tracing while using the data as as background.
I also talked about the buildings numbers from PICC, which make it much 
easier to add building address details in OSM.
>> I had been requesting authorization for PICC and orthophotos, but he 
>> told me that there are other potentially useful data like MNT 
>> <http://geoportail.wallonie.be/catalogue/f3cdf392-a569-423e-889e-186c5e647cd3.html> 
>> (relief) and others.
>>
>> However, since I'd been asking for an explicit authorization (needed 
>> for integration into the iD editor), he told me that the 
>> authorization contract templates they've got require an organization. 
>> Probably because the data is free of the associations without 
>> lucrative purpose.
> First, I strongly discourage using ID and Potlatch. This is what has 
> led to highly imprecise Wallonia tagging as well as introducing 
> tagging errors over the years.  All that work has to be redone with 
> correction.
> Please use the PICC with JOSM to achieve a 25 cm precision excellent 
> tagging.
I don't understand, why does JOSM allow a higher precision? Because we 
can manually correct the background offset?
But if it's that, I wonder how you correct the background offset down to 
25 cm. Do you have a professional GPS receiver? Standard GPS devices are 
only down to 3 meters.
Anyway, users will still use iD, so providing them with a better imagery 
is a good thing in my opinion.

Thomas

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