[Talk-ca] Community Conduct

[James]

>From what was told to me at the school,  Stewart, you are allowed to create
derivative work/tracing, but not distribute the imagery.

On Dec 22, 2016 7:29 PM, "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2016-12-22 02:43 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> >
> > http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/44545610#map=16/45.4064/-75.7947
> > …
> > But maybe I'm overreacting and I'm prepared to let the matter rest if
> > the Canadian community finds that normal.
>
> I don't find that normal, and I'm sorry you had to deal with it. OSM
> must be a welcoming and cooperative community, and some of the comments
> in that exchange were out of line. OSM is not a race to see who can add
> the most data.
>
> I have approached the GIS at Carleton team to ask about the licence for
> their air photos. I can neither access their images as a slippy map nor
> find a data licence text. The statement that “City of Ottawa Air Photos
> are available for direct download for Carleton University students,
> faculty and staff ONLY” (emphasis theirs) makes me concerned that the
> data is under a restricted academic licence.
>
> Until Carleton can confirm that the data is good to use, I'd like to
> request that Jamie and any others refrain from using it as a data
> source. It's like the Ottawa building import: the OSM community can't
> use data until its source and licence is verifiable by everyone.
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
>
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