[Talk-in] Id editor on Bhuvan

[Shekhar Krishnan]

> Well, the foundation does exist.
> Does this mean everyone creates an account on Bhuvan before starting
> to trace in OpenStreetMap? I'm still not clear how this could work.
> Might make sense to ask others. Paul, Mikel - do you have thoughts?
>

Would be good to know what Paul and Mikel think here.

It seems a question of what is "public domain", not just according to 
OSM but also per Indian law. Apart from the discussions on Bing and the 
License Working Group, this is the only statement I find on the OSM wiki:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#2._Contributing

>>
> Hmm, 20 tiles a day is not going to work. This is going to be high
> traffic. And it does require reliable infrastructure. Worthwhile to
> consider how we can support Bhuvan on this.
> Also, few imagery are not in web mercator, those will have to be reprojected.

Yes, agreed, the 20 per day limit I see is not just for GeoTIFF 
downloads but also for the tile service.

There could perhaps then be a role for HBCSE-TIFR here as a  educational 
institution, and government client able to redistribute and serve 
high-availability imagery for scientific and developmental purposes to 
the OSM community.

The fact that Bhuvan is already using ID, tilecache, etc. is the opening 
I believe Nagarjuna was looking for when he initiated this thread.

We are ready to approach NSRC and ISRO via TIFR to support using Bhuvan 
for OSM mapping, if folks here can advise on what we should ask for. 
We're also approaching them for raw data which we're using for image 
processing and analysis at HBCSE.


S.K.
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Shekhar Krishnan
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