[Talk-is] Data improvements in Iceland

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

This sounds very useful Matt.

I have previously approached ja.is about the 360 imagery on behalf of OpenStreetMap á Íslandi and a permission to use it as a data source. The reply in 2018 was "not for now - maybe later" so if this is later then it would be great.

The GPS traces would be very nice too.

Regarding using LUKR as a source then be advised it is not 100% correct - it contains a number of ghost buildings for example (where a zone has been approved for a building but it hasn't been built yet). For example in my previous residence I had a license to build a garage (with other residents) and on LUKR the garage was already built while it still has not moved off the drawing board for 20 years.

--JBJ

8. janúar 2019 kl. 11:30, skrifaði "Matt Riggott" <matt at ja.is>:

>> On 5 Jan 2019, at 11:14, Morten Lange <morten7an at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> It would be great if paths found on ja.is maps could be freely used on OpenStreetMap, and the other
>> way around. I guess that depends on licensing clauses.
> 
> Hi Morten,
> 
> I agree, it'd be really nice to have that, but you're right to think the licence is too
> prohibitive. The map tiles are produced by Samsýn and they're quite strict on what we can do with
> them. Besides that, the tiles are projected using ISN 93, so using them as an OpenStreetMap layer
> would cause alignment problems.
> 
> But I can think of some ways Já could help OpenStreetMap. First, I could ask for Já to give
> OpenStreetMap explicit permission to use the Já 360 street view photos as a data source. Second, we
> have GPS coordinates from the car that drove around the country taking the Já 360 photos; I could
> ask to be able to publish the GPS data under a permissive licence.
> 
> If any of that sounds useful, let me know.
> 
> M.
> 
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